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Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager: Administration and Deployment made easy with short training videos

Thanks to Craig McBride for this post. Training Tuesday Edition - 11 In this week's Training Tuesday blog we will begin with the first in a series of blogs...

Thanks to Craig McBride for this post. Training Tuesday Edition - 11 In this week's Training Tuesday blog we will begin with the first in a series of blogs about Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager training videos. Each blog provides pointers to free, short videos that you can take at your own pace to get a better at understanding of the product. Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager is a server virtualization management platform, based on the oVirt open source project, that...

Oracle Linux 8: Containers made easy with short training videos

Thanks to Craig McBride for this post. Training Tuesday Edition - 10 Container technology provides a means for developers and system administrators to build and...

Thanks to Craig McBride for this post. Training Tuesday Edition - 10 Container technology provides a means for developers and system administrators to build and package applications together with libraries, binaries, and configuration files so they can run independently from the host operating system and kernel version. You can run the same container application, unchanged, on laptops, data center virtual machines, and on a cloud environment. Learn how to create and maintain...

Oracle Linux 8: Oracle VM VirtualBox made easy with short training videos

Thanks to Craig McBride for this post. Training Tuesday Edition - 9 A popular tool for developers and users creating cloud and local applications without the...

Thanks to Craig McBride for this post. Training Tuesday Edition - 9 A popular tool for developers and users creating cloud and local applications without the overhead of using a full server environment, Oracle VM VirtualBox runs on standard x86 desktop and laptop computers. It allows users to set up multi-platform virtual machine environments for software development, testing, and general purpose operating system (OS) virtualization, with optional runtime encryption. Software...

Oracle Linux 8: Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) Virtualization made easy with short training videos

Thanks to Craig McBride for this post. Training Tuesday Edition - 8 This week’s blog presents a set of short videos on how to use Kernel-based Virtual Machine...

Thanks to Craig McBride for this post. Training Tuesday Edition - 8 This week’s blog presents a set of short videos on how to use Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) virtualization on Oracle Linux 8. The KVM code was first announced in 2006 and was merged into the mainline Linux kernel as part of version 2.6.20, in February 2007. Therefore, KVM is part of Linux. KVM is an open-source type-1 (bare-metal) hypervisor that permits a system running Oracle Linux 8 to host multiple...

Oracle Linux 8: Disk Management made easy with short training videos

Thanks to Craig McBride for this post. Training Tuesday Edition - 7 This week’s blog presents a set of short videos on how to manage disk storage for your...

Thanks to Craig McBride for this post. Training Tuesday Edition - 7 This week’s blog presents a set of short videos on how to manage disk storage for your Oracle Linux 8 systems. Partitioning disks, creating file systems, and mounting file systems is an essential skill needed to provide storage for users, applications, and data. In these videos, you’ll learn: How to divide, or partition, your storage devices into smaller segments. The standard naming convention used to access...

Oracle Linux 8: Remote Management made easy with short training videos

Thanks to Craig McBride for this post. Training Tuesday Edition - 6 This week’s blog presents a set of short videos on how to establish secure connections to...

Thanks to Craig McBride for this post. Training Tuesday Edition - 6 This week’s blog presents a set of short videos on how to establish secure connections to remote Oracle Linux 8 systems. With secure connections, all traffic transmitted over the wire is encrypted and protected from password sniffing attacks and other outside monitoring. In these videos, you’ll learn how to use the OpenSSH suite of connectivity tools used for remote login and management. These videos cover...

Oracle Linux 8: Oracle Ksplice made easy with short training videos

Thanks to Craig McBride for this post. Training Tuesday Edition - 5 This week’s blog includes a series of short videos on using Oracle Ksplice with Oracle Linux...

Thanks to Craig McBride for this post. Training Tuesday Edition - 5 This week’s blog includes a series of short videos on using Oracle Ksplice with Oracle Linux 8. Oracle Ksplice allows you to install the latest kernel and key user-space security and bug fix updates while the system is running. You don’t need to coordinate with users to schedule system down time or stop running applications. This means with Ksplice you don’t need to reboot your systems to install kernel or...

Oracle Linux 8: Networking made easy with free videos

Thanks to Craig McBride for this post. Training Tuesday Edition - 4 This week’s blog presents a set of free, short videos on performing network configuration...

Thanks to Craig McBride for this post. Training Tuesday Edition - 4 This week’s blog presents a set of free, short videos on performing network configuration functions on Oracle Linux 8. Being able to configure networks is an essential skill to access programs, storage and data on remote systems. This video series also covers firewall configuration required to keep your networks safe and secure from intruders. Oracle Linux 8 handles network communications through software...

Oracle Linux 8: Package Management made easy with free videos

Blog created by Craig McBride Training Tuesday Edition - 3 Welcome back to Training Tuesdays.  In this week’s edition, we are talking about performing software...

Blog created by Craig McBride Training Tuesday Edition - 3 Welcome back to Training Tuesdays.  In this week’s edition, we are talking about performing software package management on Oracle Linux 8.  Software package management is an essential skill needed to keep your Oracle Linux 8 system up to date with the latest software enhancements, bug fixes, and security patches. Oracle Linux 8 includes DNF utilities to perform package management. DNF replaces YUM, which was used in...