Summary

This chapter focused on practical learning via hands-on labs. First, we went through how to install providers in VMs, then we ran discovery and replication procedures. The first hands-on lab concluded with the migration of a VM to Azure using Azure Migrate.

Our second hands-on lab focused on MySQL database migration to the Azure Database for MySQL service using DMS. In this lab, we first created the migration service and configured it with our target resources. Then we migrated a sample schema. Finally, we created a migration project and migrated the database to Azure.

Migrating operating systems and databases to Azure is just one step on our cloud journey. Naturally, the next step is to operate the migrated Linux workloads on Azure. Chapter 5, Operating Linux on Azure, will give you some practical guidance on this topic.