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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839215520
Length 508 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Rithin Skaria Rithin Skaria
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Frederik Vos Frederik Vos
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 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

Using PowerShell DSC

Like Bash, PowerShell is a shell with strong scripting possibilities. We might think that PowerShell is more of a scripting language and that can be used to carry out simple operations or to create resources as we have done so far. However, the capabilities of PowerShell are beyond that and extend all the way to automation and configuration.

DSC is an important but little-known part of PowerShell that, instead of automating scripts in the PowerShell language, provides declarative orchestration in PowerShell.

If you compare it to Ansible, support for Linux is very limited. But it is very useful for common administration tasks, and missing features can be compensated for with PowerShell scripts. Microsoft is very focused on getting it on a par with Windows Server. When that happens, it will be replaced by PowerShell DSC Core, a move very similar to what they did before with PowerShell | PowerShell Core. This will be finished by the end of 2019.

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