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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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Frederik Vos Frederik Vos
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

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

Security is a very important topic nowadays. Many reports, books and so on are written on this subject. In this chapter, I covered several options in Linux to increase the security level. All of them come on top of the basic security already provided by Azure through network security groups. They are relatively easy to implement and it already makes a big difference!

Central identity management is not only a way to provide users access to the virtual machine, but it's also a part of the reducing the security risks. Azure Directory Services provides, via LDAP and Kerberos, an identity management solution for all operating systems and applications that have support for these protocols.

Chapter 8, Exploring Continuous Configuration Automation, will cover automation and orchestration. Please note that all the security measures covered in this chapter can be easily orchestrated...

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