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‫فهرست سرفصل‌های دوره‌های آموزشی‬

‫‪Bash Scripting ............................................................................................ 2‬‬

‫‪Ansible ...................................................................................................... 11‬‬

‫‪ELK Stack .................................................................................................... 16‬‬

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Bash Scripting
Note: In this course, you will learn each topic with code samples, practical
use cases, and exercises.

Getting started with Bash Scripting

• The what and why of scripting with Bash

• What is Bash Scripting?
• Basic script building
• The Shebang!
• Bash Script name format
• Setting up permission on shell scripts
• Execute a script
• Variables and Scopes
• Special parameters
• Importance of quoting, spaces and escaping in bash scripts
• Double quote vs Single quote
• Exit codes
• Exiting an script
• Bash configuration files
• Shells and Subshells
• Random variable usage and control
• Debugging the bash script
• Creating interactive bash scripts

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 • Bash script controls
• Shell comments
• Documentation
• Command source and period (.)
• Scripts on system startup
• Getting and setting dates and delays

Functional Framework

• Alias and functions

• Functions with arguments
• Writing and calling functions
• Function return values
• Local variables
• Make aliases and functions permanent

Navigating to directories and Listing

• Wildcards
• Pattern matching and regular expression
• Copy, rename, delete and sorting operations
• Log control and IO redirections
• Special characters

Text Processing and Filters in your Scripts

• Head and tail

• The cut command
• The paste command
• The diff command
• The comm command

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 • The od Command
• The join command
• The uniq command
• The tr command
• The awk command
• The nawk command
• The sed command
• The xargs command
• The tee command

Expressions and Arithmetic

• Assignment operators
• Logical operators
• Logical NOT (!)
• Logical AND (&&)
• Logical OR (||)
• Math with the shell
• Arithmetic operators
• Math using bc
• Using bc in bash scripts
• Scale variable in bc
• Math using bash capabilities like $[ ] and (( ))
• Expr

Using Structured Commands

• Conditional execution of command lists

• Test commands (strings, integers and file types …)
• If statement
• If ... else statement
• Iterations

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 • Nesting ifs
• The for loop
• Advanced for loops
• Nesting loops
• While loop
• Until loop
• Loop over a range, List and the content of a file
• Internal Field Separator (IFS)
• More than one …
• Testing the loops
• Redirecting loop output
• Exiting the loop with break and Continue
• Using variables and files in loops
• True, False and:
• The Case statement

Files Operation & Navigating Directories

• Reading files and directories

• Basename and dirname
• Execution
• File Pat
• Listing and sorting
• Splitting
• Transfer

Using Sort

• Sort command and output

• Sort & Uniq
• Numeric sort
• Sort by keys

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 Strings

• Use regex on a string

• Uppercase & Lowercase
• Manage strings Delimiter
• Tips on string handling

Handling Script Inputs

• Positional variables
• Variables referrals
• Controlling null variables
• Reading input from files
• Special cases
• $*, $@ and $#
• Controlling the visibility of entered text
• Passing parameters to functions
• Returning values from functions

Work with files containing information records

• Fixed-length records
• Variable-length records
• Record processing
• Record-related operations
• Operations related to fixed-length records
• Operations related to variable-length records
• Merging operations

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 Finding files based on properties

• Concepts of file access levels

• Dealing with file sizes
• Filtering searches
• Other notable considerations

Jobs, processes and parallel processing in bash

• Pipes
• Redirections
• Background processes
• Signals and job controls
• Advanced IO redirection
• Substitutions
• Wait and parallel processing

Arrays

• Arrays assignments
• Accessing the array elements
• Array Iteration
• Array modification
• All array operations
• Sorted arrays

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 Monitoring processes and applications

• Monitor for starting a process

• Monitor for ending a process
• Monitor start and end of processes and log events
• Recording execution times of processes
• Common applications of monitoring
• Waiting for a program to terminate
• System load monitoring using uptime, sar, iostat, vmstat and …

Menus

• Using functions in menus

• Creating operator menus
• Give back our client a menu

Notification of events automatically

• Automate emailing
• Automate emailing with attachment
• Mail vs mailx
• The uuencode package
• Ftp, Rsync and … automation
• Remote Connection
• Passwordless connections

File Transfer automation

• Merging concepts
• Using FTP to retrieve server machine files
• Downloading files from the server

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 • Updating server files
• nlist
• Configuring SSH
• Reading passwords in scripts

Scheduling jobs to run in the future

• Using cron
• Using anacron
• Using at
• Controlling User access to schedulers

Debugging

• Syntax checking
• Shell tracking
• Log tracking
• Using the set command

Tricks with Shell Scripting

Security with Shell Scripting

Real-World Bash Script Training Course Scenarios:

• Generate Data Integrity Reports

• Compare Data Integrity Reports
• Unique and Duplicates Controller
• Random Digit Generator

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 • Files Special Filters
• Automated Interactive Input
• Parallel Executions for Time Saving
• Rotate Function
• Get and Sort play
• Get and Sort Play with Arrays
• Backup and Integrity check
• Ftp Client Automation
• User Lock and Unlock from Scratch
• Elapsed Time in Special Format
• Chkconfig Emulator (Report Generator in Fixed Length)
• High-Low Game
• Automated Pinging for Availability Check
• Multi-Platform Ping for Each OS
• Disk Space Check
• Service Control - Web Server as Sample
• Rotating Old Files
• Test Variables
• All Path Executables Files Reporter
• Id (id Command Emulation)
• Custom UserAdd Script
• File Systems and Disk Space Monitoring
• UID and GID Checker
• Data Manipulation with Fixed Offset

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Ansible
Introduction of DevOps

Understanding DevOps concepts

DevOps Automation

Continuous Integration

Continues Delivery

Continuous Deployment

The roles of Ansible in CI/CD

The benefit of CICD

What is Ansible?

Automation Deployment Pipeline

Need of Ansible

What Ansible can do?

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 Advantages of using Ansible?

Agent-Based VS Agentless systems

Ansible’s Agentless Architecture

Install Ansible

Validate Ansible Installation

Ansible Vs Puppet Vs Chef Vs SaltStack

Ansible Architecture

Host, Group and Host Inventory

Ansible Ad-Hoc commands

Playbooks, plays, tasks and modules

Ansible configuration

Ansible-playbook Structure

Taks, vars, files, templates, meta, defaults, handlers

Ansible-playbook Syntax

Run ansible playbook

Variables, variable types and priorities

Command, expect, script, shell and raw modules

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 file, copy and fetch modules

Group and user modules

zyper_repository, zypper, yum_repository and you modules

Template, lineinfile, replace and service module

Archive and unarchive module

Async actions and concurrent tasks

wait_for and wait_for_connection modules

Mail module

Subversion and git modules

get_url, timezone and iptables modules

Mariadb modules

Find module and local_action feature

Conditions

Loops

Standard loops

Nested loops

Import playbooks and tasks

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 Handlers

Ansible Vault

Encrypt files and strings

Vault ID

Implement an Ansible playBook to Setup a webserver

Integrate Jenkins & Ansible

CICD with Git, Jenkins and Ansible (Application Deployment)

Ansible & VMWare

Ansible & Cisco

Ansible & Mikrotik

Develop Custom Module

Module format

Module’s return value and error handling

Setup nginx servers behind haproxy via Ansible playBook

Ansible & Windows Hosts

Manage windows features

Manage windows services

Execute shell module on windows

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 Windows Package management

Package Silent Installation

Implement an Ansible PlayBook to Setup IIS

Integrate Ansible and Docker

Docker_image and docker_image modules

docker_container and docker_container modules

docker_network and docker_network_info modules

docker_volume and docker_volume_info modules

docker_swarm module

Ansible Galaxy

Ansible Tower

Ansible AWX

AWX prerequisites and Installation

AWX Dashboard

AWX - organizations, teams and users

AWX - hosts, groups and inventory

AWX - credentials

AWX - projects and templates

AWX - Schedule templates, notification and permissions

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ELK Stack
Introduction to Elastic Stack

• What is the Elastic Stack? Overview and History

• Working with data, structured vs. semi-structured vs. unstructured
data
• Overview of the data analysis process
• What is Big Data? Characteristics (3Vs: Volume, Velocity, Variety)
• Elastic Stack vs. ELK Stack, Evolution and Components
• Common Use Cases: Log Management, Business Analysis, Security Ana-
lytics, Monitoring
• Installing Elastic Stack Components: Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana,
Beats

Deep Dive into Elasticsearch

• Elasticsearch Architecture: Nodes, Clusters, and Indexes

• What is API and advanced usage of API in Elasticsearch
• Data Modeling and Indexing
• Understanding Mapping, Documents, and Fields
• CRUD Operations: Create, Read, Update and Delete data
• Search Queries: Term, Match, Range, Aggregations
• Advanced Search and Filtering: Bool Queries, Nested, and Geo Queries
• Performance Tuning with Sharding, Replication, Caching, and Index
Management

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 Data Collection with Logstash

• Introduction to Logstash, architecture and Pipeline Concepts

• Configuring input plugins for various data sources
• Reading data from different sources (logs, metrics, CSVs, Databases, etc.)
• Input Plugins: File, Syslog, Beats, JDBC
• Data Transformation using filters for parsing, enriching, and transforming data
• Output Plugins: Elasticsearch, File, Email, Kafka
• Managing and Debugging Pipelines
• Logstash Configuration Best Practices

Data Visualization with Kibana

• Introduction to Kibana, Interface and Navigation

• Index Patterns and Data Discovery
• Building Visualizations with Pie Charts, Bar Graphs, Line Graphs, and Maps
• Creating Dashboards for Monitoring and Analytics
• Working with Kibana Lens for Simplified Data Exploration
• Advanced Visualizations: Timelion, Vega, Canvas
• Alerts and Reporting in Kibana
• Alarm and triggers in Kibana
• Security and Access Control in Kibana

Data Shipping with Beats

• Overview of Beats: Filebeat, Metricbeat, Packetbeat, Auditbeat, Heartbeat

• Installing and Configuring Beats
• Collecting and Parsing Log Files with FileBeat
• System and Application Metrics with MetricBeat
• Network Traffic Analysis with PacketBeat
• Security Event and File Integrity Monitoring with AuditBeat
• Uptime Monitoring with HeartBeat

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 • Sending Data from Beats to Elasticsearch/Logstash

Unified Data Collection with Elastic Agent

• Introduction to Elastic Agent

• Replacing Beats with Elastic Agent
• Configuring Elastic Agent for Data Collection (Log and Metric)
• Centralized Management with Fleet

Security and Monitoring in the Elastic Stack

• Securing the Stack: Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and Encryption

• HTTPS interfaces and Secure communications
• Auditing and Compliance, Monitoring Access and Changes
• Implementing Security Rules and Alerts
• SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) and SOC Use Cases

Advanced Elastic Stack Topics

• Machine Learning in Elastic Stack: Anomaly Detection and Forecasting

• IoT integration with Elastic Stack
• Advanced alarm and triggers deployment (sending email, SMS, Physical
action, etc)
• APM (Application Performance Monitoring): Tracing and Performance
Metrics
• Scaling Elasticsearch Clusters, High Availability and Load Balancing
• Backup and restore Strategies for Elasticsearch
• Handling Large Datasets, Index Lifecycle Management (ILM) and Rollups

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 Real-World Use Cases and Projects

• Setting Up a Centralized Logging Solution

• Building a Real-Time Monitoring Dashboard for Infrastructure
Metrics
• Security Analytics and Threat Detection with the Elastic Stack
• Implementing Application Performance Monitoring (APM) for
services
• IoT Management and monitoring platform with elastic stack

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