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Introduction
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Locking Down SSH
10 Lessons-
StartIntroduction
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StartGenerating public & private keys for Mac & Linux
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StartA note for Windows Users
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StartGenerating public/private keys for Windows
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StartCopying our public key to the server
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StartSpinning up new servers with your ssh public key
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StartModifying the sshd_config to require keys, and prevent root login
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StartAdditional SSH changes
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StartInstalling fail2ban
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StartWhat about FTP?
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Choosing and installing a web server
13 Lessons-
StartNGINX, Apache, and Caddy -- which one?
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StartSetting up Apache
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StartAdding a virtual host in Apache
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PreviewEnable LetsEncrypt on Apache
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StartApache logs & starting and stopping the server
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StartSetting up NGINX
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StartAdding a virtual host in NGINX
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StartEnable LetsEncrypt on NGINX
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StartNGINX logs & starting and stopping the server
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StartSetting up Caddy
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StartA note about Caddy 2.5
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StartAdding a virtual host in Caddy
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StartCaddy logs & starting and stopping Caddy
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Databases
7 Lessons
Deploying a Secure Virtual Private Server with Ubuntu
Setting up a secure instance of Ubuntu with Caddy, NGINX, Apache, PHP, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, and more
Course Summary
Who Is This Course For
- Developers who want to host their own web applications
- People who are interested in acquiring "DevOps" skills for future employment
- People who are interested in best practices for securing a Linux based server
Requirements
- A functional Windows, Macintosh, or Linux computer & an Internet connection
- Some experience with Linux is helpful, but not essential. We'll go over the basics
What You Will Learn
- Deploy a secure Virtual Private Server on a provider like Linode, Digital Ocean, or Vultr
- Install most commonly used software (web server, PHP, databases, etc)
- Connect to the VPS using SSH (secure shell) and Kes (public and private SSH keys)
- Best practices to secure the VPS
- Learn how ufw, the "Uncomplicated Firewall" works
Description
Many developers have been turning to Virtual Private Servers to host their projects, and with good reason: unlike in a shared hosting environment, you are not running the risk of someone else's badly written code resulting in poor performance or (worse yet) your site being compromised because of someone else's insecure programming.
With a Virtual Private Server, you have complete control over the software that is available to you, and you can fine tune the server to meet your exact needs. But setting up a secure VPS takes a bit of work, and requires a bit of learning.
This course will take you through the basics of setting up a fast, secure VPS on Linode, DigitalOcean, AWS Lightsail, Vultr or any other provider that offers VPS Linux hosting. We'll set up an Ubuntu 20.04 server with the most commonly needed software, and ensure that it is locked down as securely as possible. We will also go through best practices for adding users, software, and services, and ensure that we choose the right kind of server for a particular project. We will learn how to implement public and private keys for secure access using SSH, how to edit files on the remote server through the command line using vi or nano/pico, how to use the most common and useful Linux command line programs, and how to configure the most popular and useful server software.
- Python's primitive data types: integer, float, string, and boolean
- Python's aggregate data types: tuple, set, dictionary and list
- How to make decisions in Python: if/elif/else
- How to loop in Python: for and while loops
- How to write functions
- How to import from the standard library, and third party packages
- How to structure a Python program
- How to perform mathematical operations in Python
- How to manipulate strings in Python
- How to work with classes in Python
And, as the saying goes, much more. Periodically, I'll include "aside" lectures, which focus on a particular aspect of Python in more detail, with simple code examples that are not part of the main project.
This course requires no previous programming experience.
Course Pricing
Course Curriculum
Trevor Sawler
Trevor has more than twenty years of experience in professional software development, and over 30 years of experience as a university professor. As an entrepreneur, he has worked with a broad range of clients, including Thomson Nelson, Hewlett Packard, the Royal Bank of Canada, Keybank, Sprint, and many, many others. He also has extensive management and project management experience. He has led teams of fifty developers and artists on multi-million dollar projects, and much smaller teams on much smaller projects. Trevor continues to work projects for a variety of clients every day. As a professor, he has taught in a wide variety of course areas, including Computer Science, English, Irish, and American literature, and a number of "crossover" courses that bridge the liberal arts and technological fields. He has won regional, national, and international awards for his work in the IT field, and has also won awards for his teaching and research as a University professor.
