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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)

Summary

In this chapter, another way of deploying your workload in Azure was discussed. After an introduction into the history, ideas, and concepts of container virtualization, we went into some of the available options. Together with older implementations such as LXC, they are all great and rock solid implementations to host containers: systemd-nspawn, Rkt, and Docker

We not only saw how to run existing images, pulled from repositories, but also how to create your own image. Maybe the greatest news is that there is a tool called Buildah, which is able to create an image using the OCI standard of the Open Container Initiative that can be used for Docker, but also for Rkt.

The biggest part of this chapter was about Docker. This is by far the most widely implemented container solution today. And talking about implementations, there are really many methods to implement/deploy Docker...