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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

I really hope that you enjoyed the introduction to the orchestration platforms. It's only a fast introduction to make you curious to learn more. All the websites of the orchestration tools mentioned in this chapter are great resources and a pleasure to read.

Some extra resources to mention:

  • PowerShell DSC: The book, Pro PowerShell Desired State Configuration: An In-Depth Guide to Windows PowerShell DSC by Ravikanth Chaganti, published by Apress, and the videos of Prajeesh Prathap that are published at Packt Publishing are a must. The Hey, Scripting Guy! blog (https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy) is always a very good place to start if you want tutorials about PowerShell and PowerShell DSC.
  • Ansible: I do think that Learn Ansible by Russ McKendrick and other titles by the same author about Ansible deserve a lot of credit. If you are too lazy...