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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839215520
Length 508 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Rithin Skaria Rithin Skaria
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Frederik Vos Frederik Vos
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Kamesh Ganesan Kamesh Ganesan
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 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

Summary

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

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

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

  • Deploy it manually in a VM
  • Deploy a ready-to-go VM from the marketplace
  • Docker Machine
  • Azure Container Instances...
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