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Hands-On Linux Administration on Azure

You're reading from   Hands-On Linux Administration on Azure Explore the essential Linux administration skills you need to deploy and manage Azure-based workloads

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789130966
Length 410 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Exploring the Azure Cloud FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with the Azure Cloud 3. Basic Linux Administration 4. Managing Azure 5. Advanced Linux Administration 6. Managing Linux Security and Identities 7. Deploying Your Virtual Machines 8. Exploring Continuous Configuration Automation 9. Container Virtualization in Azure 10. Working with Azure Kubernetes Service 11. Troubleshooting and Monitoring Your Workloads 12. Assessments 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

I started this chapter with a little introduction to orchestration, why you want to use orchestration, and the different approaches: imperative versus declarative.

After that I covered Ansible, Salt, and PowerShell DSC platforms. Many details were covered about the following:

  • How to install the platform
  • Working with resources at the OS level
  • Integration with Azure

Ansible is by far the most complete solution, and maybe the one with the lowest learning curve. However, all of the solutions are very powerful and there are always ways around the limitations. And for all orchestration platforms, the future is promising in terms of even more features and capabilities.

Creating Linux virtual machines is not the only way to create a workload in Azure; you can also use container virtualization to deploy a platform for your application. In the next chapter, we're going to...

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