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Hands-On Linux Administration on Azure - Second Edition

By : Kamesh Ganesan, Rithin Skaria, Frederik Vos
Book Image

Hands-On Linux Administration on Azure - Second Edition

By: Kamesh Ganesan, Rithin Skaria, Frederik Vos

Overview of this book

Thanks to its flexibility in delivering scalable cloud solutions, Microsoft Azure is a suitable platform for managing all your workloads. You can use it to implement Linux virtual machines and containers, and to create applications in open source languages with open APIs. This Linux administration book first takes you through the fundamentals of Linux and Azure to prepare you for the more advanced Linux features in later chapters. With the help of real-world examples, you’ll learn how to deploy virtual machines (VMs) in Azure, expand their capabilities, and manage them efficiently. You will manage containers and use them to run applications reliably, and in the concluding chapter, you'll explore troubleshooting techniques using a variety of open source tools. By the end of this book, you'll be proficient in administering Linux on Azure and leveraging the tools required for deployment.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Index

Chapter 1: Exploring the Microsoft Azure Cloud

  1. You can virtualize compute, network, and storage resources. Of course, at the end of the day, you'll still need hardware somewhere in the world to run the hypervisors, and possibly a cloud platform on top of that.
  2. Virtualization emulates hardware, and containers emulate an operating system where multiple containers run on an underlying operating system. In virtualization, each virtual machine has its own kernel; they don't use the hypervisor/hardware kernel. In hardware virtualization, everything is transformed into software. In container virtualization, only processes are isolated.
  3. It depends; do you develop your application on the same platform? If so, then PaaS is the service type for you; otherwise, use IaaS. SaaS provides an application; it's not a hosting platform.
  4. It depends. Azure is compliant with and helps you to comply with legal rules and security/privacy policies. Plus, there is the concept...