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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

Especially regarding Azure CLI, PowerShell, and ARM, the Azure documentation contains so much valuable information, with many examples. And everything I wrote in the Further reading section of the Chapter 2, Getting Started with the Azure Cloud is important in this chapter as well.

Another resource of Microsoft that provides are their blogs. If you visit https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wriju/category/azure/ you'll find many interesting postings about automation, including more detailed examples.

Michael S Collier provides on his blog at https://michaelcollier.wordpress.com a lot of information regarding Azure, almost every posting includes scripting and automation possibilities.

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