You're reading from Mastering KVM Virtualization Design expert data center virtualization solutions with the power of Linux KVM

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838828714

Length 686 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

KVM

Concepts

Design

Authors (4):

Humble Devassy Chirammal

Prasad Mukhedkar

Vedran Dakic

Anil Vettathu

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: KVM Virtualization Basics

2. Chapter 1: Understanding Linux Virtualization FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: KVM as a Virtualization Solution

4. Section 2: libvirt and ovirt for Virtual Machine Management

5. Chapter 3: Installing KVM Hypervisor, libvirt, and oVirt

6. Chapter 4: Libvirt Networking

7. Chapter 5: Libvirt Storage

8. Chapter 6: Virtual Display Devices and Protocols

9. Chapter 7: Virtual Machines: Installation, Configuration, and Life Cycle Management

10. Chapter 8: Creating and Modifying VM Disks, Templates, and Snapshots

11. Section 3: Automation, Customization, and Orchestration for KVM VMs

12. Chapter 9: Customizing a Virtual Machine with cloud-init

13. Chapter 10: Automated Windows Guest Deployment and Customization

14. Chapter 11: Ansible and Scripting for Orchestration and Automation

15. Section 4: Scalability, Monitoring, Performance Tuning, and Troubleshooting

16. Chapter 12: Scaling Out KVM with OpenStack

17. Chapter 13: Scaling out KVM with AWS

18. Chapter 14: Monitoring the KVM Virtualization Platform

19. Chapter 15: Performance Tuning and Optimization for KVM VMs

20. Chapter 16: Troubleshooting Guidelines for the KVM Platform

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Setting up and integrating the ELK stack

Thankfully, almost everything that we need to install is already prepared by the Elasticsearch team. Aside from Java, everything is nicely sorted and documented on their site.

The first thing you need to do is install Java – ELK depends on Java to run, so we need to have it installed. Java has two different install candidates: the official one from Oracle and the open source OpenJDK. Since we are trying to stay in the open source ecosystem, we'll install OpenJDK. In this book, we are using CentOS 8 as our platform, so the yum package manager will be used extensively.

Let's start with the prerequisite packages. The only prerequisite package we need in order to install Java is the java-11-OpenJDK-devel package (substitute "11" with the current version of OpenJDK). So, here, we need to run the following command: