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Mastering KVM Virtualization - Second Edition

By : Dakic, Chirammal, Mukhedkar, Vettathu
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Book Image

Mastering KVM Virtualization - Second Edition

5 (1)
By: Dakic, Chirammal, Mukhedkar, Vettathu

Overview of this book

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) enables you to virtualize your data center by transforming your Linux operating system into a powerful hypervisor that allows you to manage multiple operating systems with minimal fuss. With this book, you'll gain insights into configuring, troubleshooting, and fixing bugs in KVM virtualization and related software. This second edition of Mastering KVM Virtualization is updated to cover the latest developments in the core KVM components - libvirt and QEMU. Starting with the basics of Linux virtualization, you'll explore VM lifecycle management and migration techniques. You’ll then learn how to use SPICE and VNC protocols while creating VMs and discover best practices for using snapshots. As you progress, you'll integrate third-party tools with Ansible for automation and orchestration. You’ll also learn to scale out and monitor your environments, and will cover oVirt, OpenStack, Eucalyptus, AWS, and ELK stack. Throughout the book, you’ll find out more about tools such as Cloud-Init and Cloudbase-Init. Finally, you'll be taken through the performance tuning and troubleshooting guidelines for KVM-based virtual machines and a hypervisor. By the end of this book, you'll be well-versed with KVM virtualization and the tools and technologies needed to build and manage diverse virtualization environments.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: KVM Virtualization Basics
4
Section 2: libvirt and ovirt for Virtual Machine Management
11
Section 3: Automation, Customization, and Orchestration for KVM VMs
15
Section 4: Scalability, Monitoring, Performance Tuning, and Troubleshooting

Setting up and integrating the ELK stack

Thankfully, almost everything that we need to install is already prepared by the Elasticsearch team. Aside from Java, everything is nicely sorted and documented on their site.

The first thing you need to do is install Java – ELK depends on Java to run, so we need to have it installed. Java has two different install candidates: the official one from Oracle and the open source OpenJDK. Since we are trying to stay in the open source ecosystem, we'll install OpenJDK. In this book, we are using CentOS 8 as our platform, so the yum package manager will be used extensively.

Let's start with the prerequisite packages. The only prerequisite package we need in order to install Java is the java-11-OpenJDK-devel package (substitute "11" with the current version of OpenJDK). So, here, we need to run the following command:

yum install java-11-openjdk-devel

After issuing that command, you should get a result like this...