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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

Containers and storage

The last part of this chapter is about containers and storage. Every build tool that can create images provides the option to add data to your container.

You should use this feature only to provide configuration files. Data for applications should be hosted, as much as possible, outside the container: if you want to quickly update/remove/replace/scale, and so on, your container, it's almost impossible if the data is within the container.

There are often multiple ways to do this: you can use your local storage, or mounts on the host, and so on. Here is just one example in Rkt:

rkt run --volume data,kind=host,source=/directory>,readOnly=false \
<container>

This will make /srv/data on the localhost available on /var/data.

For Docker, there are solutions such as https://github.com/ContainX/docker-volume-netshare.

If you are using Docker and...

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