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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

Rkt

Container Linux, formerly known as CoreOS, was developed in 2013 as a very small Linux distribution optimized as a host for running containers. They started with using Docker, but in 2014 they switched to their own container technology, Rkt, which is heavily dependent on systemd-nspawn. In January 2018, the company behind Container Linux was acquired by Red Hat.

While it is perfectly possible to install Rkt on other distributions (for more information, visit https://coreos.com/rkt/docs/latest/distributions.html), in this section I'm going to use Container Linux. You can simply deploy via the latest stable version via the Azure Portal or use the Azure CLI/PowerShell method.

In the Azure Marketplace, Container Linux is still available under the old name CoreOS at the time of writing. This will change in the near future.

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