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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)

Working with Azure Kubernetes Service

In the previous chapter, we explored the world of container virtualization, especially Docker containers. In this chapter, it's all about managing containerized workloads using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

This chapter is different from all the other chapters in this book. Until now, in every chapter, it was about infrastructure and providing a platform: the classic system administrator working in the cloud. Even the Chapter 9, Container Virtualization in Azure has more about questions such as "How can we install Docker?" and "How do we get the container up and running?" The questions I'll answer in this chapter are the following:

  • How can we deploy and manage our workload, during the development phase and afterwards?
  • How can we scale up/down?
  • What are the availability options?

Kubernetes provides an important...