AWS Foundations
Linux Shell Patterns for Incoming SREs
We stay close to the keyboard—no GUIs. Each session ends with a micro kata you can reuse during incident bridges.
Inside the syllabus
- Shellcheck-driven refactor drills
- Journalctl filtering recipes
- Text processing pipelines with awk refresher
- SSH hardening checklist for jump hosts
- Systemd timer migration story
- Pair debugging of a deliberately broken init script
Outcomes you can evidence
- Ship a shell snippet library with comments your peers understand
- Diagnose a boot-order regression using structured logs
- Explain when not to automate in shell
Lead mentor
Siti Rahman
Mentor focused on humane on-call practices for distributed teams.
FAQ
Debian-based VMs; concepts translate but package names may differ.
You need WSL2 or a comparable Linux environment for homework.
We issue a completion letter; vendor exams are separate purchases.
Recent participant notes
Short, punchy katas—finally stopped cargo-culting copy-pasted loops.