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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

Storage

In the previous chapter, we discussed how to create disks and attach them to the VM, but our job doesn't end there. We have to partition or mount the disk to the Linux machine. In this section, we will be discussing storage management in Linux. There are two types of storage available in Azure: virtual disks that are attached to the VM, and Azure file shares. In this chapter, both types will be covered. We will be discussing the following topics:

Adding a single virtual disk to a VM
Working with filesystems
Working with multiple virtual disks using the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and RAID software

Storage Provided by Block Devices

Local and remote storage can be delivered by block devices. In Azure, it's almost always a virtual hard disk that is attached to the VM, but it is possible to use internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) volumes as well, delivered by Microsoft Azure StorSimple or third parties.

Every disk attached to...

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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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