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Mastering Ubuntu Server - Third Edition

By : Jay LaCroix
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Mastering Ubuntu Server - Third Edition

By: Jay LaCroix

Overview of this book

Ubuntu Server has taken data centers around the world by storm. Whether you're deploying Ubuntu for a large-scale project or for a small office, it is a stable, customizable, and powerful Linux distribution with innovative and cutting-edge features. For both simple and complex server deployments, Ubuntu's flexible nature can be easily adapted to meet to the needs of your organization. This third edition is updated to cover the advancements of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and further train you to understand how to use Ubuntu Server, from initial deployment to creating production-ready resources for your network. The book begins with the concepts of user management, group management, and file system permissions. Continuing into managing storage volumes, you will learn how to format storage devices, utilize logical volume management, and monitor disk usage. Later, you will learn how to virtualize hosts and applications, which will include setting up QEMU & KVM, as well as containerization with both Docker and LXD. As the book continues, you will learn how to automate configuration with Ansible, as well as take a look at writing scripts. Lastly, you will explore best practices and troubleshooting techniques when working with Ubuntu Server that are applicable to real-world scenarios. By the end of this Ubuntu Server book, you will be well-versed in Ubuntu server’s advanced concepts and attain the required proficiency needed for Ubuntu Server administration.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
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Index

Deploying containers via Kubernetes

Now it's time to see our work pay off, and we can successfully use the cluster we've created. At this point, you should have either set up MicroK8s, or manually created a cluster as we've done in the previous section. In either case, the result is the same: we have a cluster available that we can use to deploy containers.

Keep in mind that if you're using MicroK8s, you'll need to prepend microk8s in front of kubectl commands. I'll leave it up to you to add microk8s to the front of such commands as you go along, if you're using MicroK8s.

Kubernetes utilizes files created in the YAML format to receive instructions. Does that sound familiar? In Chapter 15, Automating Server Configuration with Ansible, we worked with YAML files as that's the format that Ansible playbooks are written in. YAML isn't specific to Ansible; it's used with many different applications and services, and Kubernetes...