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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

We started this chapter with a short introduction to orchestration, the reasons to use orchestration, and the different approaches: imperative versus declarative.

After that, we covered the Ansible, Terraform, and PowerShell DSC platforms. Many details were covered about the following:

  • How to install the platforms
  • Working with resources at the OS level
  • Integration with Azure

Ansible is by far the most complete solution, and maybe the one with the least steep learning curve. However, all of the solutions are very powerful and there are always ways around their limitations. And for all orchestration platforms, the future is promising in terms of even more features and capabilities.

Creating Linux VMs is not the only way to create a workload in Azure; you can also use container virtualization to deploy a platform for your application. In the next chapter, we're going to cover container technologies.