Linux Skills: Master SED, FIND, AWK, GREP, and More!

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Overview

Course Overview

This course explores the power of SED, FIND, AWK, GREP, and other essential text manipulation tools. You will get practical advice and real-world examples to enhance your understanding.

Course Outline

This course will cover the following topics:

  • Unleash SED’s Potential: Learn stream editing, pattern matching, and advanced techniques with practical examples.
  • Harness FIND’s Power: Discover precise file and directory searching, from basics to complex queries.
  • Master AWK for Data: Explore AWK’s capabilities in data extraction, processing, and reporting.
  • Unearth Gems with GREP: Revolutionize text searching with powerful regular expressions and combination commands.

Course Materials

Slides: Linux SkillsDownload

Building your own switch with P4 (Part 2)

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Overview

Course Overview

Utilizing the P4Pi project, the course begins with an overview of the P4 language, a deeper dive into architecture definitions and the available P4 target ecosystem. There will also be hands-on P4 programming experience as part of the course.

Course Outline

This course will cover the following topics:

  • Overview of the P4 language
  • Deeper dive into architecture definitions
  • Hands on P4 programming experience
  • Discover and understand programmable data planes


Looking Lower- Programmable Data Planes (Part 1)

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Overview

Course Overview

The course covers how the next steps in Software Defined Networks and programmable data planes unlock a world of new possibilities, starting with the logical function of a switching chip and ending with hands-on tasks using the industry standard P4 language (p4.org).

Course Outline

This course will cover the following topics:

  • We begin with understanding logical operation of an ethernet switching chip packet processing through the Match Action Table abstraction
  • Then cover the concept of architecture definitions and the deep value of a programming language as a domain specific abstraction to express processing logic
  • Then “You wouldn’t download an MPLS stack”: Artisanal encapsulations & other fun tricks with PDPs

Course Materials

Slides: Looking Lower- Programmable Data PlanesDownload