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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

Getting Help

Whether you are new to Linux or a long-time user, from time to time, you'll need help. It's impossible to remember all the commands and their parameters. Almost every command has a --help parameter, and there is sometimes documentation installed in the /usr/share/doc directory, but the most important sources of information are the information documents and man pages.

Using the man pages

There is a saying, Read The Fine Manual (RTFM), and sometimes people replace the word fine with another, less friendly word. Almost every command has a manual: a man page provides you with all the information you need. And yes, not all man pages are easy to read, especially older ones, but if you use man pages frequently, you'll get used to them, and you'll be able to find the information you need quickly enough. Normally, man pages are installed on your system, and they are available online: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages.

Note that the man pages are removed...