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Hands-On Linux for Architects

You're reading from   Hands-On Linux for Architects Design and implement Linux-based IT solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789534108
Length 380 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Denis Salamanca Denis Salamanca
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Esteban Flores Esteban Flores
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: High-Performance Storage Solutions with GlusterFS FREE CHAPTER
2. Introduction to Design Methodology 3. Defining GlusterFS Storage 4. Architecting a Storage Cluster 5. Using GlusterFS on the Cloud Infrastructure 6. Analyzing Performance in a Gluster System 7. Section 2: High-Availablility Nginx Web Application Using Kubernetes
8. Creating a Highly Available Self-Healing Architecture 9. Understanding the Core Components of a Kubernetes Cluster 10. Architecting a Kubernetes Cluster 11. Deploying and Configuring Kubernetes 12. Section 3: Elastic Stack
13. Monitoring with the ELK Stack 14. Designing an ELK Stack 15. Using Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana to Manage Logs 16. Section 4: System Management Using Saltstack
17. Solving Management Problems with Salty Solutions 18. Getting Your Hands Salty 19. Design Best Practices 20. Assessments 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Installing Logstash and Kibana

With the Elasticsearch cluster up and running, we can now go ahead and install Logstash and Kibana.

The repository that was used in the previous steps is the same for the remaining components. So, the same process that was used before to add the repository should be applied to the Logstash and Kibana node.

This is a summary, the same process has been explored before:

  1. Add the repository to /etc/yum.repos.d/elastic.repo
  2. Update the yum cache to sudo yum makecache
  3. Install Logstash and Kibana using sudo yum install logstash kibana
  4. Initialize the disk for /var/lib/logstash and sudo parted /dev/sdX mklabel gpt
  5. Create the sudo parted /dev/sdX mkpart xfs 0GB 32GB partition (note that this is a 32 GB disk)
  6. Create the sudo mkfs.xfs /dev/sdX1 filesystem
  7. Update fstab
  8. Update the sudo chown logstash: /var/lib/logstash directory permissions

The Logstash systemd...

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