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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)

Storage services

In Azure, we have different types of data or storage services:

  • Blob storage: An optimized storage object, to store massive amounts of unstructured data, such as text or binary data. It's often used to make the data available for other resources, for instance, to store VHD files that can be used to create virtual disks. Another use case is to use it as storage for audio and video files. Making the blob publicly accessible, it's even possible to stream the data.
  • Azure Files: CIFS shares hosted files in Azure.
  • Azure Queue storage: Passing messages from one resource to another, especially for serverless services such as Azure Web App and Functions. It can also be used to create a backlog of work to process asynchronously.
  • Table storage: This is for the Azure CosmoDB service.
  • Disk storage: This is for managed and unmanaged disks.

In this chapter, I will...