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Hands-On Linux Administration on Azure

By : Frederik Vos
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Hands-On Linux Administration on Azure

By: Frederik Vos

Overview of this book

Azure’s market share has increased massively and enterprises are adopting it rapidly, while Linux is a widely-used operating system and has proven to be one of the most popular workloads on Azure. It has thus become crucial for Linux administrators and Microsoft professionals to be well versed with managing Linux workloads in an Azure environment. With this guide, system administrators will be able to deploy, automate, and orchestrate containers in Linux on Azure. The book follows a hands-on approach to help you understand DevOps, monitor Linux workloads on Azure and perform advanced system administration. Complete with systematic explanations of concepts, examples and self-assessment questions, the chapters will give you useful insights into Linux and Azure. You’ll explore some of Linux’s advanced features for managing multiple workloads and learn to deploy virtual machines (VMs) in Azure. Dedicated sections will also guide you with managing and extending Azure VMs’ capabilities and understanding automation and orchestration with Ansible and PowerShell DSC. In later chapters, you’ll cover useful Linux troubleshooting and monitoring techniques that will enable you to maintain your workload on Azure. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to make the most out of Azure’s services to efficiently deploy and manage your Linux workloads.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Further reading

Similar to the previous chapter, I strongly suggest you visit Chapter 11, Troubleshooting and Monitoring Your Workloads to read about logging in Linux, because often the systemctl status command doesn't provide you with enough information. I also already pointed to the blog by Lennart Poettering, and the systemd website.

For Linux security in general, you can start reading the book Mastering Linux Security and Hardening by Donald A. Tevault. Many of the topics covered in this chapter and many more are explained with a great eye for detail.

The firewalld daemon has a project website, https://firewalld.org, with a blog and excellent documentation. For older distributions, the Wiki of ArchLinux is a good start to learn more: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/iptables. And since iptables is utilized by firewalld, it's a good start before diving into...