Final Project Outline

Students aiming to complete the Linux Systems Administration course are expected to devise and complete a capstone project, to be turned in at the end of the course.

The instructions, expectations, and deliverables for the project are listed on this page.

Instructions

1. Select a topic to research about a project that you are going to build.
   Topics:
   • System Stability
   • System Performance
   • System Security
   • System monitoring
   • Kubernetes
   • Programming/Automation
2. Plan the project
   • Find documentation or similar projects and build off of what was done there.
3. Document
   • First pass, what does it take to build this?
4. Diagram
   • Draw the thing
     • Excalidraw.com
     • Draw.io
5. Build
   • Get screen shots
   • Make a video?
   • Basically prove you built it.
6. Finalize documentation
   • Redline the documentation
7. Prepare to Present (overleaf.com is a great alternative to Powerpoint)
   • Setup a 15-20 slide deck on what you did
     • Project purpose
     • Diagram
     • Build Process
     • What did you learn?
     • How are you going to apply this?
8. Do any of you want to present?
   • Let me (Scott) know and we’ll get you a slot in the last few weeks.

Deliverables

1. Build Documentation for your project that works in either the ProLUG labs, or in the Killercoda environment.

2. A diagram of what you built. This should be both a physical and a logical representation of the system (if applicable).

3. Examples of the running system, screen shots, or other proof that you built it and show it in a running state.

4. A 15-20 slide presentation of the above material that you would present to a group (presenting to us is voluntary, but definitely possible.)