Subject-matter expert
Shawn Powers
Shawn Powers has been teaching IT for more than a decade. His specialties are Linux, Chef, and integrating multiple platforms for larger networks. Early in his career, he started a Cisco Academy for a local school district where he taught networking (CCNA & CompTIA A+) to high school students. He has a passion for teaching others, and his enthusiasm comes through in his courses. He is an associate editor for Linux Journal.
Credentials
Certifications Shawn Powers holds
Vendor-issued credentials Shawn holds — the hands-on IT background behind the courses your team will train on.
- LPIC-1
- CompTIA Linux+
- CompTIA+
- Cisco CCNA
Training coverage
Courses that carry Shawn Powers's expertise into your team plan
Use these courses as proof of coverage for the roles and technologies your team needs to support.
Courses Shawn Powers teaches
5 courses
DevOps
Docker
Container adoption stalls when every engineer installs Docker differently, builds images by habit, and deploys to cloud services without a shared workflow. This Docker course gives DevOps teams a common baseline, from local setup on Linux, Windows, and WSL through image builds, multi-container workflows, and cloud deployment. IT Directors and Team Leads can assign it to DevOps professionals with roughly three to five years of experience. The team works through creating and managing containers, building Docker images for repeatable deployments, configuring Docker Compose and Docker Swarm, and deploying containerized applications to Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS with eksctl, AWS CodeBuild, and Azure. A dedicated module on Python and Docker-py shows how to automate Docker Engine tasks and cut repetitive manual container management. At about 13 hours per learner, the course fits a multi-week enablement plan rather than a one-day session. Training Managers can sequence it with Playlists alongside internal standards for image creation, deployment targets, and automation ownership, then use Team Reporting to track per-learner progress and completion and see who is ready for hands-on container work.
Google Cloud
Cloud Digital Leader Certification
This Google Cloud Digital Leader certification course helps you learn how cloud technology revolutionizes business. You'll dive deep into digital transformation, data management with BigQuery, and AI solutions like Vertex AI. You'll also gain a deep understanding of the shared responsibility model and cloud cost-management. This course prepares you to lead your organization’s modern, sustainable cloud strategy with confidence, and includes unlimited Google Cloud Digital Leader practice exams.
Google Cloud
Google ACE
This entry-level Google Associate Cloud Engineer training equips you with the skills to deploy, manage, and secure Google Cloud Platform (GCP) resources — ensuring optimal performance and cost efficiency. Learn how to configure, optimize, and troubleshoot GCP, making you a valuable asset to any organization leveraging cloud technology. This Google Cloud training can be used to onboard new cloud admins, curated into individual or team training plans, or as a Google Cloud reference resource.
Google Workspace
Google Workspace Administrator
This Google Workspace Administrator certification training is an associate-level course for IT support specialists and junior sysadmins who want to develop practical, real-world Google administration skills. With a focus on the Google Admin console and core Workspace services, you'll dive deep into user management, service configuration, and security controls across the Workspace environment. You'll explore how to manage identities, configure Gmail and Drive, enforce data and access policies, and optimize collaboration at scale. Through clear, engaging explanations and guided demonstrations, this Google Workspace Administrator certification training will give you the expertise needed to administer Google Workspace effectively and prepare for the Google Workspace Administrator exam.
Linux
Everything Linux
This intermediate Linux training teaches practical skills through hands-on examples, covering everything from basic scripting to advanced system management. You'll learn BASH scripting, SSH authentication, filesystem management, RAID, LVM, and configuring services like Apache. Perfect for system administrators looking to deepen their Linux expertise or onboard new admins.
Buyer proof
How Comcast Saved Hundreds per seat with an Efficient, Scalable Training Program by CBT Nuggets
Enterprise Tech / Telcom · Florida, U.S. · 29
Comcast’s Sales Engineering division has a highly technical job, and needed a training solution that could keep up. CBT Nuggets helped them reduce their per-SE training cost by hundreds per seat, and is now the training standard across 10 out of 13 Comcast SE regions.
Read the full case study“CBT Nuggets is interesting because they can give you these little certificates that say, hey, you completed this content and got certified. As a policy, we accept that.”
Chris Layfield
Director of Engineering at Comcast Business