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Migrating Linux to Microsoft Azure

By : Rithin Skaria, Toni Willberg
Book Image

Migrating Linux to Microsoft Azure

By: Rithin Skaria, Toni Willberg

Overview of this book

With cloud adoption at the core of digital transformation for organizations, there has been a significant demand for deploying and hosting enterprise business workloads in the cloud. Migrating Linux to Microsoft Azure offers a wealth of actionable insights into deploying Linux workload to Azure. You'll begin by learning about the history of IT, operating systems, Unix, Linux, and Windows before moving on to look at the cloud and what things were like before virtualization. This will help anyone new to Linux become familiar with the terms used throughout the book. You'll then explore popular Linux distributions, including RHEL 7, RHEL 8, SLES, Ubuntu Pro, CentOS 7, and more. As you progress, you'll cover the technical details of Linux workloads such as LAMP, Java, and SAP, and understand how to assess your current environment and prepare for your migration to Azure through cloud governance and operations planning. Finally, you'll go through the execution of a real-world migration project and learn how to analyze and debug some common problems that Linux on Azure users may encounter. By the end of this Linux book, you'll be proficient at performing an effective migration of Linux workloads to Azure for your organization.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Summary

This chapter focused on practical learning via hands-on labs. First, we went through how to install providers in VMs, then we ran discovery and replication procedures. The first hands-on lab concluded with the migration of a VM to Azure using Azure Migrate.

Our second hands-on lab focused on MySQL database migration to the Azure Database for MySQL service using DMS. In this lab, we first created the migration service and configured it with our target resources. Then we migrated a sample schema. Finally, we created a migration project and migrated the database to Azure.

Migrating operating systems and databases to Azure is just one step on our cloud journey. Naturally, the next step is to operate the migrated Linux workloads on Azure. Chapter 5, Operating Linux on Azure, will give you some practical guidance on this topic.