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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 has covered various details about how to effectively operate Linux on Azure. First, we went through the Optimize phase, including the ACM and Azure Advisor tools. Then, we proceeded to the Manage & Secure phase, where we spent some time with the data protection functionality as well as the Azure Linux Agent.

Just before the hands-on lab, you also learned how Azure Update Management works in conjunction with various Linux distributions' update mechanisms.

We have now covered all the topics regarding assessing, migrating, and operating Linux on Azure. What happens when something doesn't work as you expect? Let's find out in the next chapter, where we will guide you through troubleshooting Linux on Azure.