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Hands-On Linux Administration on Azure

You're reading from Hands-On Linux Administration on Azure Develop, maintain, and automate applications on the Azure cloud platform

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839215520

Length 508 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Azure

Concepts

System Administration

Authors (3):

Rithin Skaria

Frederik Vos

Kamesh Ganesan

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

About Hands-On Linux Administration on Azure, Second Edition

1. Chapter 1: Exploring the Microsoft Azure Cloud

2. Chapter 2: Getting Started with the Azure Cloud FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Basic Linux Administration

4. Chapter 4: Managing Azure

5. Chapter 5: Advanced Linux Administration

6. Chapter 6: Managing Linux Security and Identities

7. Chapter 7: Deploying Your Virtual Machines

8. Chapter 8: Exploring Continuous Configuration Automation

9. Chapter 9: Container Virtualization in Azure

10. Chapter 10: Working with Azure Kubernetes Service

11. Chapter 11: Troubleshooting and Monitoring Your Workloads

12. Chapter 12: Appendix

13. Index

Virtual Machine Resources

In this section, we'll provide a few tables with the necessary components and the corresponding commands in PowerShell and Bash. It can be used together with the help available in PowerShell (help <cmdlet>), the Azure CLI (add the --help parameter to the command), or the Azure online documentation.

Azure Profile

The Azure profile comprises the settings needed to describe your Azure environment:

Figure 4.20: Azure profile settings commands

Resource Group

The resource group is needed to contain and manage resources:

A list of commands to create and view the Azure resource groups

Figure 4.21: Azure resource group commands

Storage Account

The storage account is needed if you want to store data outside your VM/container:

A list of commands for Azure storage account

Figure 4.22: Azure storage account commands

Virtual Networks

Virtual networking is needed for communication between VMs/containers and communication with the outside world:

A list of commands that can be used to create and view Azure virtual network and subnet.

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Authors (3)

Rithin Skaria

Rithin Skaria

Rithin Skaria is a prominent supporter of cloud technologies, in addition to his roles as a speaker, consultant, and published author with a specialization in the design and enhancement of cloud architecture. He has spent over a decade managing, implementing, and designing IT infrastructure solutions for public and private clouds. At present, he works with Microsoft Qatar as a cloud solution architect, placing particular emphasis on Azure solutions. Rithin holds an impressive array of over 18 certifications in diverse technologies such as Azure, Linux, Microsoft 365, and Kubernetes, and he is a Microsoft Certified Trainer. His substantial contributions to the Microsoft worldwide Open Source community have earned him recognition as one of its engagement leaders. He has also spoken at several events and conferences, including Microsoft Spark.

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Kamesh Ganesan

Kamesh Ganesan

Kamesh Ganesan is a cloud evangelist and a seasoned technology professional with nearly 23 years of IT experience in all major cloud technologies, including Azure, AWS, GCP, and Alibaba Cloud. He has over 45 IT certifications, including 5 AWS, 3 Azure, and 3 GCP certifications. He's played many roles, including certified multi-cloud architect, cloud native application architect, lead database administrator, and programmer analyst. He architected, built, automated, and delivered high- quality, mission-critical, and innovative technology solutions that helped his enterprise, commercial, and government clients to be very successful and significantly improve their business value, using multi-cloud strategy.

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Frederik Vos

Frederik Vos

Frederik Vos, living in Purmerend, a city near Amsterdam in the Netherlands, works as a senior technical trainer of virtualization technologies, such as Citrix XenServer, and VMware vSphere. He specializes in data center infrastructures (hypervisor, network, and storage) and cloud computing (CloudStack, CloudPlatform, OpenStack, and Azure). He is also a Linux trainer and evangelist. He has a lot of knowledge as a teacher and also real-world experience as a system administrator. For the last three years he has been working as a freelance trainer and consultant within the ITGilde Cooperation, delivering many Linux training, such as Linux on Azure training for the Linux Foundation.

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