Introduction
This guide is part of the Kubernetes the hard way on bare metal/VMs
series. On its own this may be useful to you however since it’s
tailored for the series, it may not be completely suited to your needs.
This
guide is to help people set up and configure a basic Ubuntu server from
start to finish. It will go into quite a bit of detail including
software RAID and LVM and as such if you don’t have at least 2 disks
available then you may not be able to follow along exactly; that doesn’t
mean you can’t follow along though!
I’m going to presume you have a physical PC/server or virtual machine on which you wish to install Ubuntu.
If you’re using a physical machine then you’ll need to download the ISO
and put it onto a USB stick or CD so that you can install Ubuntu. There
are plenty of guides online on how you can achieve this; however two
quick examples for USB sticks are:
- Linux: Run in a terminal
sudo dd if=/path/to/ubuntu.iso of=/dev/USB_Device
- Windows: You can use PenDrive Linux
If
you’re using Virtualbox or libvirt/KVM/QEMU then you can just attach
the ISO directly to the VM. If you’re not sure about how this is done
then take a look at my tutorials on how to use them.
libvirt/QEMU/KVM
Virtualbox
Resources
See the main series under Setting up the resources for the VM specs