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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

Reading further is not a very easy topic in the area of container virtualization. For systemd-nspawn, it's relatively easy: the man pages are an easy read. Maybe a suggestion that is relevant for systemd-nspawn, Rkt, and even Docker: Red Hat provides on their website a document called The Resource Management Guide (https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/resource_management_guide/) with good information about cgroups.

The documentation for Rkt is not always up to date. Double-check it with their GitHub project: https://github.com/rkt/rkt/. It's the same for Container Linux, check out also their GitHub project on https://github.com/coreos/docs/. There is a book from Matt Bailey about Container Linux: CoreOS in Action, that is a must-have if you are going to play with Container Linux and Rkt: it really provides everything...