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Mastering Ubuntu Server

By : Jay LaCroix
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Mastering Ubuntu Server

By: Jay LaCroix

Overview of this book

Ubuntu is a Debian-based Linux operating system, and has various versions targeted at servers, desktops, phones, tablets and televisions. The Ubuntu Server Edition, also called Ubuntu Server, offers support for several common configurations, and also simplifies common Linux server deployment processes. With this book as their guide, readers will be able to configure and deploy Ubuntu Servers using Ubuntu Server 16.04, with all the skills necessary to manage real servers. The book begins with the concept of user management, group management, as well as file-system permissions. To manage your storage on Ubuntu Server systems, you will learn how to add and format storage and view disk usage. Later, you will also learn how to configure network interfaces, manage IP addresses, deploy Network Manager in order to connect to networks, and manage network interfaces. Furthermore, you will understand how to start and stop services so that you can manage running processes on Linux servers. The book will then demonstrate how to access and share files to or from Ubuntu Servers. You will learn how to create and manage databases using MariaDB and share web content with Apache. To virtualize hosts and applications, you will be shown how to set up KVM/Qemu and Docker and manage virtual machines with virt-manager. Lastly, you will explore best practices and troubleshooting techniques when working with Ubuntu Servers. By the end of the book, you will be an expert Ubuntu Server user well-versed in its advanced concepts.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Mastering Ubuntu Server
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this action-packed chapter, we looked at serving web pages with Apache. We started out by installing and configuring Apache, and then added additional modules. We also covered the concept of virtual hosts, which allows us to serve multiple websites on a single server, even if we only have a single network interface. Then, we walked through securing our Apache server with SSL. With Apache, we can use self-signed certificates, or we can purchase SSL certificates from a vendor for a fee. We looked at both possibilities. keepalived is a handy daemon that we can use to make a service highly available. It allows us to declare a floating IP, which we can use to make an application such as Apache highly available. Should something go wrong, the floating IP will move to another server and as long as we direct traffic toward the floating IP, our service will still be available should the master server run into an issue. Finally, we closed out the chapter with a guide to installing ownCloud...