From the course: Learning the Elastic Stack (2020)

What you should know - Elastic Stack Tutorial

From the course: Learning the Elastic Stack (2020)

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What you should know

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- [Instructor] There's a few things you're going to need to really succeed with this course. First, you'll need a basic foundation of Linux sysadmin skills. That includes things like working with a command-line shell and working with command-line text editors. I use Vim for the examples, mostly 'cause it stays out of the way. But it can also make it sort of hard to follow along 'cause Vim is not very intuitive. So I'd encourage you to use another editor if you're not comfortable with Vim. I will be covering every exercise step-by-step. So even relative beginners should be able to follow along. But I won't be spelling out all the editor commands that I use. We'll be using Vagrant and VirtualBox in the exercise examples. So some familiarity with those tools will make that easier. You actually don't need a very powerful CPU on your workstation or server, but you will need enough memory to run the virtual machine we'll be using in this course. 8 gigs is probably enough, but 16 or more would be better, so you have a little extra headroom for running other applications. If you're comfortable working with a cloud provider, you should be able to use a cloud-based VM instead. But for the sake of time, I won't be covering how to do that. Elasticsearch can manage just about any kind of data, not just log files. But in this course, we're going to focus on that log file use case. So the primary audience is anyone who needs to work with a lot of log data. That's people like DevOps engineers, system administrators, security engineers, and full-stack developers. Even if that doesn't describe your current role, you may still find a lot of value in how the elastic stack applies to that use case.

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