How Linux is Used in Real-World Data Engineering (For Beginners)

Prerequisites 1. A working public IP address to an Ubuntu server on the cloud 2. Access to admin user credentials (password or private key for key-based authentication) Linux For The Cloud Data engineering is increasingly seeing the uptake of cloud infrastructure as essential in how firms manage their data. From storage, automation, and analysis, many tools and resources are now deployed in the cloud. Working on Linux environments is an unspoken necessary skill for data engineers. There are tools and processes you will come across in the data engineering lifecycle for which you need to have skills on Linux. Linux servers are almost an intrinsic choice for cloud servers. Their ubiquity on the cloud is because they are lightweight and highly optimized for the cloud. As such, navigating and running commands from the Linux terminal is the focus of this article. It gives you a beginner friendly feel to working from the terminal interface. Accessing the server You need to be able to access t