Disabling IPv6 in Ubuntu Server 18.04

I was putting the following in /etc/sysctl.conf in Ubuntu 16.04 and ipv6 was disabled.

net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1

In Ubuntu 18.04 I have to add the following to grub.

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="ipv6.disable=1"

Just wanted to have confirmation whether this is the new way in Ubuntu 18.04 to disable IPv6.

You only need to add this to /etc/default/grub

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="ipv6.disable=1"

I also did it on GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT to be safe. Modifying sysctl only partially worked, and noticed the bug show-up in netplan, I even tried dhcp6=false to no avail. Netplan seems to have too many bugs for 18.04 STABLE IMO but that's another story...half tempted to remove netplan also.

Just don't forget to update grub before rebooting!

sudo update-grub

To clarify Stephan Rauch (for 18.04 only) - If using grub method to disable ipv6, the /etc/sysctl.conf configuration changes were not needed. I ended up leaving them in, (in case netplan is fixed in future) but all that is needed is the following:

sudo vi /etc/default/grub

Modify the GRUB_CMDLINEs to look like:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="ipv6.disable=1"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="ipv6.disable=1"

Then execute:

sudo update-grub
sudo reboot

Enjoy ipv4.