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Meet Jenkins, the open-source automation tool for software development and system administration. With Jenkins, you can automate build management, continuous integration and deployment, testing, resource management, monitoring and reporting, and much more. This introduction helps you use Jenkins to release and deploy software more quickly and reliably.

First, learn how to set up Jenkins on Mac, Windows, Linux, or inside a Docker container, and find out how Jenkins plugins are used to extend its functionality. Next, configure your first job step by step, leading up to the requisite "Hello, World" output, and learn to make your jobs more useful and portable with parameters. Then explore job scheduling, and Jenkins's convenient aliases for running jobs at regular intervals. The course wraps up with tips for organizing jobs in folders and views and a brief look into pipelines as code-which enable you to execute a series of jobs in stages.

By the end of the training, you should be able to install Jenkins locally or on a virtual machine, create a Jenkins jobs that can be triggered manually or on a schedule, and install and configure plugins to extend the Jenkins framework.

Knowledge of the Linux command line is critical for anyone who uses this open-source operating system. For many tasks, it's more efficient and flexible than a graphical environment. For administrators, it plays a vital role in configuring permissions and working with files. In this course, experienced instructor Scott Simpson discusses the basics of working with the Linux command line using the Bash shell, focusing on practical Linux commands with examples that help you navigate through the file and folder structure, edit text, and set permissions. Scott also discusses some of the common command-line tools, such as grep, awk, and sed, and command-line apps such as the nano and Vim text editors. The course wraps up with a look at how to install and update software with a package manager.

MATLAB is one of the most popular programming languages today for engineers and scientists, and with good reason-it allows analysts to work efficiently with large amounts of data. Instructor Steven Moser shows you how to harness the MATLAB tools and create programs to model your own data and hypotheses. First, learn how to create basic variables and cell arrays, and work with the core MATLAB syntax, which is significantly different than other programming languages. Then discover how to create scripts and functions, work with matrices, debug your program, and import data. To illustrate your findings, Steven shows how to create 2D and 3D plots, add annotations, and incorporate images. The final chapter covers Simulink, the MATLAB block diagram tool.

Moodle, a learning management system (LMS), allows you to create online classes, post assignments and assessments, calculate grades, and more. Students can access the class and resources online, complete assignments, and communicate with the instructor. This course demonstrates how instructors can get started using Moodle. Learn how to set up an instructor profile. See how to create a course and adjust course settings. Find out how to add files, post announcements, and make quizzes. Watch how to enroll students and create groups. Additionally, discover how to grade assignments and run reports.

Nagios is an industry-standard, open-source solution, which makes Nagios a great choice to get started in network monitoring and administration. Learn how to use Nagios to monitor system health and gain actionable intelligence about your IT infrastructure, in this course with instructor and DevOps engineer Josh Samuelson. Josh shows how to set up a Nagios server, use plugins, and configure monitoring via the command line. He explains how to set up custom alerts and generate graphs of your data for more comprehensive insights. Plus, learn how to integrate PagerDuty to manage your on-call schedule and escalations and manage alerts remotely.

Once you've worked with Angular awhile, you discover that the difficult part of architecting apps is making sure data flows and is refreshed in the UI in a consistent way. This process is called state management. NgRx has quickly become the go-to solution for state management in large Angular applications. In this training course, you can learn about Redux—the JavaScript library for managing application state—and how NgRx provides an Angular-specific implementation of Redux that supports lazy-loaded modules, observables, and asynchronous side effects. Instructor Alain Chautard teaches the principles of state management in the context of reactive programming, giving you a solid foundation for your Angular architecture. Learn how to react to and trigger state changes, dispatch actions, and work with effects, selectors, and entities. Plus, see to build a robust component architecture with NgRx.

ON1 Photo RAW 2018 includes the essential tools and features photographers need in their workflow. Fast photo management, hundreds of customizable photo effects, fast and beautiful HDR, masking and selection tools, layers, and much more—all in one app. If you're interested in learning about alternatives to Adobe Lightroom, this course can help you get up to speed with a powerful option: ON1 Photo RAW. Here, discover how to leverage this photo app to develop and neatly organize your digital images. Instructor Robert Vanelli shows how to create a file structure for your photography, organize a digital library, leverage advanced development strategies for RAW images, apply effects to images, work with smart layers, and more.

System Center 2016 Data Protection Manager (DPM) provides a centralized, enterprise-class solution for disaster recovery. With DPM, you can back up multiple hosts: Hyper-V, VMware, and Azure virtual machines; Windows client and server operating systems; SQL Server; Exchange and SharePoint servers; and Linux virtual machines, just to name just a few. This course shows how to back up and recover these systems and more, using the DPM administration console and time-saving PowerShell cmdlets. Instructor Daniel Lachance reviews DPM components and architecture and discusses considerations for installation and backup configuration. He shows how to apply protection to workloads such as file servers, SQL Server, Hyper-V virtual machines, and Windows clients, and easily recover the data—even from failed servers that refuse to boot. The course wraps with a discussion of monitoring, reporting, and troubleshooting in DPM.

Accubid ChangeOrder allows you to easily manage contract variations and see how change orders impact the cost and schedule of your project. This course is designed for estimators who want to utilize the power of ChangeOrder for digital change orders that include accurate takeoffs and professional-looking reports. Instructor Christopher Randall shows how to set up the application and customize global and project-level preferences, including labor rates, report styles, and screen styles. Then learn how to create job files, perform takeoffs, interpret and analyze the extension screen, modify markups, and more. Plus, find out how to integrate change orders with Accubid estimates.

Ubuntu Server is optimized for scale. If you're looking to use this popular cloud operating system for a project—or you just want to hone your server administration skills—then this course is for you. Join Scott Simpson as he walks through how to deploy and configure Ubuntu Server. Scott shares how to install Ubuntu Server, secure access to the server, install and use a graphical monitoring tool, and configure and manage the server. Plus, he explores common services, sharing how to install and configure an HTTP server, MySQL, and more.

What's the secret of successful and happy people? While there's no magic formula, there are small steps you can take to appreciably increase your satisfaction and odds of success—at work and in life. Join coach Chris Croft as he introduces his top tips for life mastery. Learn how goals help you build the life you want, how reducing what's not important leaves time and energy for what is, how to beat procrastination and eliminate stress, how to maintain a positive attitude through good times and bad, how to become more assertive, and how to build a network of friends and colleagues. Chris also offers some advice on making the lessons stick. The good life is within everyone's grasp; use these tips to achieve health, happiness, and success.

Get the job you want and map out a successful career path—with these courses, weekly series, and learning paths from LinkedIn Learning. In this short course, you can sample highlights from courses covering a wide range of career management topics. Create an effective resume and ace that job interview. Build an effective personal brand and professional network. Improve your job performance and time management skills. Plus, learn how to manage change, adjust your career path, and develop a habit of lifelong learning.

When you're ready to explore more, you can find links to all of the courses featured here in the PDF accessible through the Exercise Files tab.

From lenses to lighting, photographing portraits in landscapes poses unique challenges. This edition of Portrait Projects shows photographers how to capture beautiful photos of people in natural settings. Chris Orwig takes us on location and shows us how to listen to the landscape, fit a person harmoniously into the scene, and use telephoto and wide-angle lenses to highlight the beauty of nature and the subject. Plus, learn how to use props and backlight to make photos even more impactful.

HTTP services enable the web to function. Consequently, it's important that Linux administrators understand how these services work. This intermediate course covers the basics of HTTP services with Apache on Ubuntu. Learn what a web server needs to make a site accessible to others, how to install the Apache HTTP server, and how to make configuration changes to customize how it works. Discover how to add encryption to ensure that your website remains secure. Plus, learn about logging, how to enable and disable modules, and more.

This course can prepare you for the HTTP services section of the Linux Foundation Certified Engineer (LFCE) exam.

One type of problem absolutely dominates machine learning and artificial intelligence: classification. Binary classification, the predominant method, sorts data into one of two categories: purchase or not, fraud or not, ill or not, etc. Machine learning and AI-based solutions need accurate, well-chosen algorithms in order to perform classification correctly. This course explains why predictive analytics projects are ultimately classification problems, and how data scientists can choose the right strategy (or strategies) for their projects. Instructor Keith McCormick draws on techniques from both traditional statistics and modern machine learning, revealing their strengths and weaknesses. Keith explains how to define your classification strategy, making it clear that the right choice is often a combination of approaches. Then, he demonstrates 11 different algorithms for building out your model, from discriminant analysis to logistic regression to artificial neural networks. Finally, learn how to overcome challenges such as dealing with missing data and performing data reduction.

Note: These tutorials are focused on the theory and practical application of binary classification algorithms. No software is required to follow along with the course.

Unhappy with your current job? Thinking about changing roles or industries? Learn how to make a career change that leads to greater job satisfaction and professional growth. Coach Stacey Gordon provides a roadmap that will help you navigate from where you are to where you want to be-even if you don't know the exact destination. She reviews the steps you need to consider before switching roles or industries, so you can be confident you're making the right move. Then she walks you through the best practices to set yourself up for success-such as exploring a new career while remaining in your current job, using your skills in a volunteer capacity, and leveraging your network to find more connections and opportunities in your desired field. Everyone has their own reason for wanting to make a career transition, and Stacey's goal is to help you achieve yours. Use this course as a starting point to help you evaluate your path and set your new career up for success.

Employees want to know what their manager thinks about change. In fact, people are more likely to listen and follow a direct manager than anyone else in the organization. That's why change really does start with you. This course is for managers and leaders that need to move a team of people through organizational change. Learn the official definition of change management and get clear about your role in the process. Discover strategies to remove the discomfort of change, communicate change to different groups, reinforce skills, leverage performance management, and sustain planned change. Instructor Donna Brighton emphasizes leadership skills that can help you become a change champion—leading your team to success even when multiple changes happen at once—and make change stick.

When you bring people together, conflict is a natural part of the dynamic. How leaders choose to manage these inevitable disagreements can make the difference between a dysfunctional team and a successful one. In this course, instructor Henna Inam shares strategies and techniques that can help you confidently lead through conflict. Throughout the course, Henna provides direct instruction, exercises, and scenarios that play out common team conflict situations. Discover why team conflict is necessary for success and how to determine whether a conflict is healthy or unhealthy. Review how to resolve style differences, remain both assertive and cooperative in the midst of a conflict, and leverage different conflict management styles to defuse tricky situations.

There are more contractors, freelancers, part-timers, temps, and self-employed workers than ever-and this employment shift will test leadership teams profoundly. Managers of temporary and contract workers have to juggle workers who are frequently off site, who schedule their own hours, and who may have little experience with your company's mission-but who work alongside full-time employees. In this course, leadership consultant Jan Rutherford helps managers understand the reason for the rise in the number of contract and temp positions, and why it's important to integrate these workers cohesively into your teams. He reviews best practices for hiring, onboarding, and communicating with contractors, and using the time you spend with them effectively. He also explains the mindset of a temporary worker and provides suggestions for ways to motivate a blended team and create real and lasting alignment with the rest of the organization.

InDesign FX is a collection of self-contained effects projects designed to be completed in ten minutes or less. Taught by expert Mike Rankin, the series explores every aspect of InDesign's graphic effects capabilities through real-world examples, all without relying on Photoshop or Illustrator. The intent is to reveal the quick, practical, and sometimes surprising application of InDesign effects to creative projects.

Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS) can be used to defend an organization's heterogeneous environments, respond proactively to changing business requirements, and simplify IT management—all from a single portal, without requiring you to maintain a complex infrastructure locally. In this course, learn how to get started with OMS. Instructor David M. Franklyn begins by explaining what OMS is, what it can offer your organization, and how to deploy and configure this collection of management services. He also shows how OMS can deliver immediate, actionable insights into log data by providing a cost-effective, all-in-one cloud management solution. To wrap up the course, he discusses how to use OMS to monitor an on-premises environment.

The professionals in charge of Azure administration need to know how to secure services correctly to protect the data flowing between client computers and the cloud. This course investigates security concepts related to Azure deployment and services such as Office 365 and Azure Active Directory. Find out how to work with the security portals, secure virtual machines, implement more robust multi-factor authentication, and protect your services and data, including email, documents, and user data. Plus, learn best practices for successfully securing your Azure deployment.

The Microsoft Cognitive Services APIs allow developers to leverage the power of artificial intelligence to create apps that can more effectively understand and interpret the needs of users. In this course, learn how to work with Microsoft Cognitive Services for language. Instructor Sahil Malik explains how to work with the Bing Spell Check API, the Text Analytics API—which you can use to detect language, key phrases, and sentiment—and the Translator Text API. He wraps up the course by taking a deep dive into the exciting Language Understanding (LUIS) service, which allows apps to accept a user's input in natural language.

Videographer, photographer, and post-production expert Nick Harauz has traveled the world with his video gear. In this course, Nick shares practical tips and techniques for planning what to pack and how to pack it. He also shows what to do with your gear when you arrive at your destination, to make your remote video production go as smoothly as possible and help you get your gear back home in one piece. To wrap up, Nick shares some tips that can help you organize all the great footage you captured on your trip.

MySQL is an excellent database for advanced analytics, but few analysts use it that way because they aren't fully aware of its capabilities in this area. Analysts end up writing code to perform common tasks—which can be time-consuming—rather than using MySQL to do the same work. In this course, learn tips and techniques for using MySQL for advanced data analytics. Kumaran Ponnambalam walks through the different stages of analytics, from data ingestion and transformation to generating statistics. In each stage, Kumaran focuses on letting MySQL do the heavy lifting rather than writing code in Java or Python. Discover how to perform data cleansing through MySQL update commands, find peak usage of any resource, perform centering and scaling of data to prepare for machine learning, and more. Plus, Kumaran shows how you can link MySQL with Microsoft Excel to get the best of both worlds.