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

Utilizing LVM

The needs of your organization will change with time. While we as server administrators always do our best to configure resources with long-term growth in mind, budgets and changes in policy always seem to get in our way. LVM is something that I'm sure you'll come to appreciate. In fact, technologies such as LVM are those things that make Linux the champion when it comes to scalability and cloud deployments. With LVM, you are able to resize your filesystems online, without needing to reboot your server. LVM allows you to stop thinking of storage in terms of Linux, but instead to think of it in terms of scalability.

Take the following scenario for example. Say you have an application running on a virtualized production server, a server that's so important that downtime would cost your organization serious money. When the server was first set up, perhaps you gave the application's storage directory a 100 GB partition, thinking it would never need...