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Hands-On Linux Administration on Azure - Second Edition

By : Kamesh Ganesan, Rithin Skaria, Frederik Vos
Book Image

Hands-On Linux Administration on Azure - Second Edition

By: Kamesh Ganesan, Rithin Skaria, Frederik Vos

Overview of this book

Thanks to its flexibility in delivering scalable cloud solutions, Microsoft Azure is a suitable platform for managing all your workloads. You can use it to implement Linux virtual machines and containers, and to create applications in open source languages with open APIs. This Linux administration book first takes you through the fundamentals of Linux and Azure to prepare you for the more advanced Linux features in later chapters. With the help of real-world examples, you’ll learn how to deploy virtual machines (VMs) in Azure, expand their capabilities, and manage them efficiently. You will manage containers and use them to run applications reliably, and in the concluding chapter, you'll explore troubleshooting techniques using a variety of open source tools. By the end of this book, you'll be proficient in administering Linux on Azure and leveraging the tools required for deployment.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Index

Summary

In this chapter, we covered several topics regarding troubleshooting, logging, monitoring, and even analyzing. Starting with getting access to a VM, we investigated logging in Linux both locally and remotely.

There is a thin line between performance monitoring and performance troubleshooting. There are many, many different utilities available to find out the cause of your performance issues. Each has a different goal, but there is also a great deal of overlap. We have covered the most popular utilities in Linux and some of the options available.

In the first chapter, we saw that Azure is a very open source–friendly environment and that Microsoft has made a great effort to make Azure an open, standard cloud solution with interoperability in mind. In this chapter, we saw that Microsoft has not only put a lot of effort into supporting Linux while deploying your application but also into supporting it in Azure Monitor.