Redis5x NoSQL DB Cache

Intro to Key | Value Caching - RedCacheD5x

• Introduction - Redis - Features
  • Explain key features
  • Discuss data limits
  • Enumerate important Data Types
  • Install Redis
  • Explore environment
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• CLI | String Ops | Basics
  • Query Redis Server non-interactively
  • Expose Stats
  • Set key | values
  • Confirm existence of Keys
  • Enumerate Data Type
  • Determine Key Life
  • Alter Key TTL and Test
  • Increment | Decrement Values
  • Get and Set Values
  • Delete superfluous Keys
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• Lists
  • Describe features
  • Enumerate common list manipulation commands
  • Build basic list
  • Prepend list with strings
  • Append values and evaluate
  • Discover numerical length of lists
  • Sort the contents as needed
  • Return subset of list
  • Strip list values and evaluate
  • Reduce list to desired values
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• Sets
  • Discuss features and applicability
  • Contrast with lists
  • Enumerate key commands
  • Define and extend set
  • Enumerate members of set
  • Determine set cardinality
  • Remove set items
  • Find set union and intersection
  • Define sorted set
  • Contrast with standard set
  • Return sorted set items
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• Hashes
  • Discuss features
  • Contrast with lists and sets
  • Enumerate key commands
  • Define hash with common keys
  • Retrieve all and groups of keys
  • Increment | Decrement hash values
  • Remove hash keys
  • Extend hash with new keys
  • Confirm the existence of hash keys
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• Simple Authentication
  • Discuss default behaviour and caveats
  • Use openssl to generate unique password
  • Update configuration accordingly
  • Test client access with | sans password
  • Confirm functionality
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• Persistence
  • Discuss supported strategies
  • Query Redis for current persistence configuration
  • Increase snapshot frequency
  • Confirm RDB snapshot changes
  • Enable Append Only persistence
  • Confirm persistence strategies
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• Disaster Recovery
  • Discuss and contrast recovery options
  • Confirm current persistence configuration
  • Perform snapshot-based recovery
  • Confirm restoration
  • Perform append only recovery
  • Confirm restoration
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• RAM | Pipelines
  • Disable Persistence
  • Confirm data-availability | loss
  • Execute iterative adds | time
  • Construct and execute Pipelines
  • Compare performance deltas
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• Publisher | Subscriber Model
  • Discuss applicability | benefits
  • Create Channels
  • Publish Messages
  • Confirm delivery
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• Transactions
  • Discuss features and caveats
  • Enumerate key commands
  • Start and discard a transaction
  • Confirm expected results
  • Start and complete a transaction | confirm
  • CLI - generate transactions with and sans errors
  • Confirm expected behaviour
  • Use 'WATCH' to perform conditional transactions
  • Confirm results
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• Replication
  • Discuss features
  • Alter master configuration
  • Update slave configuration
  • Ensure AUTH mode enabled
  • Define interdependent slave configuration
  • Create new keys and ensure replication
  • Update slave to permit writes
  • Create new keys and ensure locality
  • Discuss Implications
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• TLS Encryption
  • Discuss features
  • Sniff Clear-Text Traffic
  • Identify Certificate Bundle
  • Implement TLS Encryption
  • Confirm Security
  • Hybrid Instance
  • Remote - TLS | Hybrid
  • PHP | TLS | Hybrid
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Sums

• Various Tools
• Remote Confirmations
• File Metadata
• File Fragments
• Compress Content
• Archive Content
• DIR Hierarchy
• Password Sums
• Shared Secret
• Restrict History
• Downloaded Content
• Encrypt Content
• Site Credentials
• Site COOKIE
• Site COOKIE - Unique

CentOS9x Stream Administration

• Initial Environment
• ls, pwd, cd, cp, mv, rm, mkdir, rmdir, whoami
• alias, cat, file, chmod, chown, history
• STD(IN|OUT), Pipes, Redirection, Command Chaining
• ps, df, top, free
• Pagers, W-Commands
• Checksums
• Awk | Sed | Grep Usage
• BASH SHELL Environment
• Compression | Archival Tools
• SSH Equivalence
• SHELL Quoting
• Propagate Environment
• Secure Clients

• Identify Standard File Types
• Standard File Permissions
• Symbolic Links
• Transfer Permissions

• Identify SWAP environment
• Provision dedicated SWAP partitions
• Add | Remove SWAP from pool as needed
• Provision File System-based SWAP
• SWAP Share
• SWAP Persistence
• Identify default storage configuration
• Provision new storage as needed
• XFS - File System
• XFS - Grow File System
• Identify LVM defaults
• Add new partitions to LVM management
• Allocate storage to LVM Volume Groups
• Create Logical Volumes (LVs) as needed
• Overlay File System and mount where applicables
• LVM - Resize
• LVM - Mixed FS
• LVM - SWAP

• Features
• Install
• Defaults
• General Usage
• Update Accounts

• Defaults
• Shared PASS Gen
• Unique PASS Gen
• Encrypted PASS Gen
• Update Accounts
• Groups

• Discuss features | limitations
• Identify default system-wide schedule
• Peruse various default Cron Jobs
• Schedule simple job and monitor recurrence
• Evaluate results

• Peruse Default CONF
• Discuss Syslog Rules
• Explore Log Rotate defaults
• Ensure rotated logs are compressed
• Extend default retention scheme
• Force Log Rotation as needed

• Explore Default environment
• Install PKGs
• Dump important metadata from packages
• Apply Updates

• Default CONF
• Add | Confirm IPs as needed

• Install
• Copy Configuration
• SELinux - Confirm
• TLS | SSL Services
• cURL Client Tests
• Virtual Hosts
• ENC Sites Only

• SFTP Only USER
• SFTP Only USER - NOLOGIN
• SFTP Only Group - Control
• NMap Intro

SysLOG with rSysLogD

• Discuss Features
• Default Environment
• Kernel Firewall LOG
• Split LOGs by Priorities
• UDP | TCP Logging
• Dual L4 Logging
• Multiple Hosts
• Basic Queueing
• Reliable Event Logging Protocol (RELP)
• RELP - Remote Only
• RELP Only
• Traditional to RELP
• SysLOG Clear-Text - Confirm
• Property Filters
• Expression Filters
• Relay Chain

Netfilter Tables

• Features
• SSHGuard
• Ruleset Basics
• Persistence
• Sample Rules
• Inbound Filtering
• Dormant Table
• Manage Tables | Chains | Rules
• Counters
• Sets
• LOG Basics
• LOG with Sets
• Closed-Port LOGs
• LOG Options
• Re-Route LOGs
• Jump Targets
• Chain Jumping
• GoTo Chains
• Meta Selectors

Debian 12x Administration

• Features
• Download
• Graphical Install
• Text Install
• Post-Install Tweaks

• Explore usage of the following useful commands
• tty | /dev/pts | w | whoami | who
• set | env | export | unset
• cat | echo | touch | rm
• pwd | ls | cd | mkdir | alias | umask
• head | tail
• dd
• find
• history
• STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR, UNIX Pipes, Redirection, Command Chaining
• ps, df, free, top, dd
• stat, which, w, who
• tar | gzip | bzip2 | xz
• ZSH Setup

• Network Tools | IP Configuration
• Examine default IP configuration
• Extend IP configuration to facilitate additional addresses
• Static IP Config
• Dual: Dynamic | Static Config
• Multiple Interfaces
• Dual Network Services
• Confirm communications

PHP One-Liners

• General Usage
• Count Lines
• Word Count
• Count Chars
• Split Lines into ARRAY
• Count Instances of Fields
• Transform Delimiters
• Anonymize LOGs
• Extract Unique SRCs
• Lines by Error Code
• LOG By Code
• Summarize Error Codes
• Pre-Seed Error Codes
• Random Strings
• Varied Passwords
• Expose Undefined Passwords
• Outdated Passwords
• Hash | Un-Hash

Cloud Storage with GlusterFS

• Discuss Features:
• Default Volume Type
• Common Volume Types
• Transport Types
• File System Support
• Storage Model

• Features
• Provision Storage
• Allocate GlusterFS Brick
• Persistence
• Generate IO
• Multiple File Systems
• Various Sizes
• Stop | Remove Volume
• Reconstitute Volume
• Server Mount
• Evaluate

OpenPGP with GPG

• Discuss Features:
• Primary Tool
• Private | Public Keys
• Public Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS)
• Encryption | Decryption
• Signing | Verification

• Features
• General Usage
• Create Content
• Encrypt
• PassPhrase Protect
• Binary | Text Encryption
• Share
• Decrypt

SSL-TLS with OpenSSL

• Discuss Features:
• Primary Tool
• Private | Public Keys
• Certificate Signing Requests (CSRs)
• Self-Signed Certificates
• Public Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS)
• Encryption | Decryption
• Random String Generation
• Message Digests
• SSL-TLS Client

• Features
• General Usage
• Retrieve Site Certificates
• Determine OCSP Configuration
• Probe supported TLS Versions
• Extract Certificate for local usage
• Retrieve Certificate with NMap
• Retrieve Certificate Chain

• Discuss
• Generate Private Keys
• Generate Correlating CSRs
• Confirm Keys | CSRs
• Self-Signed Certificates

SSH Variables

• Discuss Features
• Bare VARs
• SSH Client
• Double Quotes
• Single Quotes
• SSH Environment

SHELL Variables

• Discuss Features
• Terminal (TTY)
• CLI Arguments
• Process ID
• Backgrounded
• SHELL Local
• Environment
• Persistence
• Aliases
• Command Substitution
• Increment | Decrement
• Dynamism