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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)

Summary

With the information in this chapter, you should be able to have a better understanding of the things you already encountered in Chapter 2, Getting Started with the Azure Cloud.

In this chapter, we explored all the Azure components that are needed before you can create your workload in Azure:

  • You'll need a storage account for the virtual machine boot diagnostic extension.
  • You'll want a storage account to store data outside your virtual machine.
  • Networking components are needed to be able to communicate with your virtual machine, enable communication between your machines, and the virtual machine able to reach the internet.

The information that is provided is useful for receiving the information you'll probably need to identify components, for instance, whether you'll need to troubleshoot your workload, or getting a better understanding of your Azure...