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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

Technical Requirements

In practice, you'll need at least one VM as a control machine, or you can use your workstation running Linux or Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Along with this, we need a node, which needs to be an Azure VM. However, in order to provide a better explanation, we've deployed three nodes. If you have budget constraints in your Azure subscription, feel free to proceed with one node. It doesn't matter which Linux distribution you're using. The examples in this section, to orchestrate the node, are for an Ubuntu node, but it's easy to translate them to other distributions.

In this chapter, multiple orchestration tools are explored. For every tool, you'll need a clean environment. So, when you are finished with the Ansible section in this chapter, remove the VMs and deploy new ones before going into Terraform.