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Mastering Ubuntu Server - Fourth Edition

By : Jay LaCroix
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Mastering Ubuntu Server - Fourth Edition

4.7 (7)
By: Jay LaCroix

Overview of this book

Ubuntu Server is taking the server world by storm - and for a good reason! The server-focused spin of Ubuntu is a stable, flexible, and powerful enterprise-class distribution of Linux with a focus on running servers both small and large. Mastering Ubuntu Server is a book that will teach you everything you need to know in order to manage real Ubuntu-based servers in actual production deployments. This book will take you from initial installation to deploying production-ready solutions to empower your small office network, or even a full data center. You'll see examples of running an Ubuntu Server in the cloud, be walked through set up popular applications (such as Nextcloud), host your own websites, and deploy network resources such as DHCP, DNS, and others. You’ll also see how to containerize applications via LXD to maximize efficiency and learn how to build Kubernetes clusters. This new fourth edition updates the popular book to cover Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, which takes advantage of the latest in Linux-based technologies. By the end of this Ubuntu book, you will have gained all the knowledge you need in order to work on real-life Ubuntu Server deployments and become an expert Ubuntu Server administrator who is well versed in its feature set.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
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Index

Creating an AWS account

As mentioned in the previous section, a VPC within AWS represents a high-level abstraction of your overall network. All of the resources that we create will run inside a VPC. Therefore, we’ll need to create a VPC first before we can create an EC2 instance and deploy Ubuntu.

Before we can create a VPC though, we’ll need an AWS account. Before this chapter, I typically advised you to use whatever hardware you have available in order to create Ubuntu installations to work with the platform. This time, we’re going to utilize an actual cloud provider, which comes at a cost. While there are free components available for a limited time with a new account, it’s up to you, the reader, to keep track of billing. We’ll discuss costs in greater detail later in this chapter. But as a general rule of thumb for now, always use whatever the cheapest option is. If a free instance type is available, go with that. Of course, if you’...