Install Ubuntu in a disposable virtual machine

You need a Linux environment for practicing server administration without changing your everyday computer. Ubuntu is a Linux distribution; installing it in a virtual machine gives you a separate guest system that you can recreate if an exercise goes wrong.

Choose an installer image supported by your virtualization software and processor architecture. Give the lab its own new virtual disk, then learn how the installer sets up storage, an administrator account and networking. Use a physical machine only when that is the intended exercise and its data has been protected separately.

Try it in a lab

Install into a newly created virtual disk, choose an ordinary administrative account and record the network configuration. Apply updates and reboot before capturing your baseline.

Check your understanding

Confirm that you can log in after a restart, explain how the machine receives its address and identify the commands that show disk and memory usage.

Before you start

The installer can overwrite a disk. Perform this exercise only on the disposable disk created for it; do not attach existing data volumes.

Read the official guide

Use the project documentation for version-specific commands and prerequisites. Record the versions and results of your own exercise. This page proposes a learning activity; it does not report a Kubedex test.

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