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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)

Starting to use AKS

With Minikube installed, it's time to set up and explore the Kubernetes environment in Azure:

  1. Create a cluster
  2. Find information about the cluster
  3. Deploy a simple workload
  4. The Kubernetes components behind the workload

Creating a cluster with the Azure CLI

In Kubernetes, you're going to work with clusters. A cluster contains a master or control plane that is in control of everything and one or more worker nodes. In Azure, you don't have to care about the master, only about the nodes.

It's a good idea to make a new resource group for the purposes of this chapter:

az group create --location westus --name MyKubernetes

In this resource group, we will deploy our cluster:

az aks create -...