You're reading from Mastering Ubuntu Server Gain expertise in the art of deploying, configuring, managing, and troubleshooting Ubuntu Server

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800564640

Length 702 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

Ubuntu Server

Concepts

System Administration

Author (1):

Jay LaCroix

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface

1. Deploying Ubuntu Server

2. Managing Users and Permissions FREE CHAPTER

3. Managing Software Packages

4. Navigating and Essential Commands

5. Managing Files and Directories

6. Boosting Your Command-line Efficiency

7. Controlling and Managing Processes

8. Monitoring System Resources

9. Managing Storage Volumes

10. Connecting to Networks

11. Setting Up Network Services

12. Sharing and Transferring Files

13. Managing Databases

14. Serving Web Content

15. Automating Server Configuration with Ansible

16. Virtualization

17. Running Containers

18. Container Orchestration

19. Deploying Ubuntu in the Cloud

20. Automating Cloud Deployments with Terraform

21. Securing Your Server

22. Troubleshooting Ubuntu Servers

23. Preventing Disasters

24. Another Book You May Enjoy

25. Index

Installing Docker

Installing Docker is very fast and easy, so much so that it barely constitutes its own section. In the last chapter, we had to install several packages in order to get a Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) virtualization server up and running as well as tweaking some configuration files. In comparison, installing Docker is effortless, as you only need to install the docker.io package:

sudo apt install docker.io

Yes, that's all there is to it. Installing Docker was definitely much easier than setting up KVM as we did in the previous chapter. Ubuntu includes Docker in its default repositories, so it's only a matter of installing this one package and its dependencies. You'll now have a new service installed on your machine, simply titled docker. In order to be useful, the service needs to be running. You can check to see whether or not it's already running with the following command: