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Mastering Ubuntu Server - Second Edition

By : Jay LaCroix
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Mastering Ubuntu Server - Second Edition

By: Jay LaCroix

Overview of this book

Ubuntu Server has taken the data centers 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 that leads the way 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. With this book as your guide, you will learn all about Ubuntu Server, from initial deployment to creating production-ready resources for your network. The book begins with the concept of user management, group management, and filesystem 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 cover setting up KVM/QEMU, 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 the book, you will be an expert Ubuntu Server administrator who is well-versed in its advanced concepts.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)

Managing system processes

System processes, also known as daemons, are programs that run in the background on your server and are typically started automatically when it boots. We don't usually manage these services directly as they run in the background to perform their duty, with or without needing our input. For example, if our server is a DHCP server and runs the isc-dhcp-server process, this process will run in the background, listening for DHCP requests and providing new IP assignments to them as they come in. Most of the time, when we install an application that runs as a service, Ubuntu will configure it to start when we boot our server, so we don't have to start it ourselves. Assuming the service doesn't run into an issue, it will happily continue performing its job forever until we tell it to stop. In Linux, services are managed by its init system, also...