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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)

Questions

  1. What are the advantages of the command-line to access Microsoft Azure?
  2. What is the purpose of a storage account?
  3. Can you think of a reason why you can get the following error message?
    Code=StorageAccountAlreadyTaken
    Message=The storage account named mystorage is already taken.
  4. What is the difference between an offer and an image?
  5. What is the difference between a stopped and a de-allocated virtual machine?
  6. What is the advantage of using the private SSH key for authentication to your Linux virtual machine?
  7. The az vm create command has a parameter —generate-ssh-keys. Which keys are created, and where are they stored?