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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)

Further reading

The book, Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions from Microsoft Press, is intended as a reference guide for studying the 70-533 exam. It explains every part of the Azure infrastructure in great detail, using the Azure portal and the command-line interfaces.

If you are newly into networking, another book, which is also written as a study guide for an exam, is the Network+ Certification Guide by Anthony Sequeira. The first five chapters are an excellent read as an introduction to networking. Much older and more difficult to read is the freely available TCP/IP Redbook from IBM (https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/gg243376.pdf); it covers much more than you need to know, but if you are interested in the topic, it's a must-read. Even if you are not interested in taking the Cisco ICND1 exam, Neil Anderson recorded a video at PacktPub, which...