Vertical Sysadmin delivers high quality hands-on training on system administration basics.

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We offer effective training on workable technologies:

cfengine

Free "Learning CFEngine 3" Book Course

This free self-study course is based on Diego Zamboni's excellent "Learning CFEngine 3" book. Start using CFEngine at your own pace in an economical manner. The course balances significance with hands-on exercises. No CFEngine experience is required.

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cfengine

Zero to Hero (1 day)

Get a jumpstart on CFEngine concepts and technology. This full-day lab course teaches and drills the 20% of CFEngine that does 80% of the work. No CFEngine experience required.

Course description.

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cfengine

CFEngine Essentials

Get a thorough orientation to and grounding in CFEngine technology. Get all your questions answered and confusions clarified by our professional and experienced instructors.

3 days | 4 days | 5 days

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Success stories

TM4SA

Time Management for System Administrators

This half-day course covers Tom Limoncelli's Cycle System which can greatly increase the efficiency of a single sysadmin. Applied by a group, it can yield a quantum shift in productivity.

vi

Editing with vi

Most sysadmins use 10% of vi's capabilities. Our two half-day courses (Basic, Advanced) teach 100% and increase speed and power in editing. Twenty year veterans of vi have come out raving how much they've learned in this course.

Linux Essentials

Linux Essentials

Created in partnership with a community of teachers, trainers and experts world-wide, the Linux Essentials program prepares the next generation to acquire the advanced skills needed to fill increasing shortages of workers in today’s mixed IT environments. We are an LPI approvied training partner offering a five-day course with certification exam.

About Us

Vertical Sysadmin trains sysadmins. Our principal, Aleksey Tsalolikhin, has been a sysadmin for 15 years and is passionate about raising efficiency, happiness and quantity of system administrators to ensure a stable civilization.

Would you like to improve effectiveness and morale of your sysadmin staff? Yes!

The balance between theoretical and practical knowledge is just perfect. No bullshit.

– Bernard Brandl

Very personal approach to teaching. We are bored to death with PowerPoint slides. Most of the class was hands on.

– Prakash Rudraraju

Thank you for such a great class. Been to lots of technical training and you are the best instructor I've had.

– Thomas Nicholson

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