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

Creating a Git repository

For the examples in this chapter, it's recommended that you create a Git repository to store your Ansible code. This isn't required, as you can find other ways of hosting your code, but it's highly recommended. This is especially true when we get to the pull method of Ansible at the end of this chapter. In this section, I'll walk you through creating a repository. If you already know how to use GitHub, you can skip this section.

While a full walkthrough of Git is beyond the scope of this book, the basics are more than enough for following along here. When it comes to Git, you can simply install the git package on a server to have it host your code, but GitHub is probably the easiest way to get started. An added bonus is that GitHub is home to a lot of great projects you can benefit from, and browsing the code of these projects is a great way to become more accustomed to syntax rules with different scripting and programming languages...