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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 9: Container Virtualization in Azure

In Chapter 2, Getting Started with the Azure Cloud, we started our journey in Azure with the creation of our first workload in Azure: the deployment of a Linux VM. After that, we covered many aspects of the Linux operating system.

In Chapter 7, Deploying Your Virtual Machines, we explored several options to deploy your VMs, and Chapter 8, Exploring Continuous Configuration Automation, was all about what to do afterward in terms of configuration management using orchestration tooling.

Orchestration is a growing part of a movement called DevOps. DevOps is about breaking down the classic silos in an organization. The different teams involved in developing, testing, and deploying products must communicate and work together. DevOps is a combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools. And DevOps is a way to make deployments incremental, frequent, and routine events while constraining the impact of failure.

VMs are not...