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The  workshop on  "Identity Access Management Campus Essential"  focused on strengthening campus IT infrastructure by implementing and upgrading identity access management systems targeting institutional system administrators, the program ensures effective, up-to-date identity access management across campuses. As an instructor, My sessions were on Institutional Identity Providers Service (Shibboleth),  Manual installation procedure of Shibboleth, Shibboleth implementation as an Identity Provider,  LEARN Zoom integration,IDP installation automated ansible method,  Migrating existing Identity database to the new implementation, Updating institutional LIAF registration The materials can be found with the following link: https://ws.learn.ac.lk/wiki/Iam2023/Agenda  

The focus of the workshop "Campus Systems Linux Essentials"  was to train Network/Systems engineers/operators of data networking (one who deals with the campus network) from LEARN member institutions to improve the use of Linux and its open-source tools for campus IT infrastructure. Linux, being free and open-source, is essential for running key applications like web servers, mail, identity management, and library systems. As an instructor in the workshop, I had sessions on package management and Scripting and GitHub administration The workshop was help in physically in ITC, University of Peradeniya under 10 sessions for 5 days, for free of charge. Course materials can be found with the following link: https://ws.learn.ac.lk/wiki/Csle2022/Agenda

We can get base images form the docker hub repository Tip: you can make customer images in docker hub (you will have to log in to docker-hub and then push the image you customised) We can download the docker image from the centre repository. Let’s download a ubuntu latest image from the repository. docker pull ubuntu Then, you can see the image by typing in terminal, docker images ubuntu After, If you want to run the docker image you can execute following command in the terminal docker container run -it web-application -p 80:80 -d ubuntu Here, the Ubuntu image is started with assigned name “web-application” and port forward is done with assigning 80:80 as host port : container port Then you will see the container id under when it is started. After, let’s install a apache service in the ubuntu container we created. To log in to the container, type docker exec -it web-application bash And then you will be in the container.Now we are going to install apache  a...