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

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...