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Migrating Linux to Microsoft Azure

You're reading from   Migrating Linux to Microsoft Azure A hands-on guide to efficiently relocating your Linux workload to Azure

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801071727
Length 210 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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3. Assessment and migration planning

This chapter will focus on discussing useful methods for assessing your existing workloads in on-premises or hosted environments and provide some guidance on planning your migration project.

We will go into the technical details regarding a number of popular Linux workloads and explain why these specific workloads require extra careful planning prior to migration. Additionally, we will talk about various migration methodologies and tools, and will also show some practical examples of how to assess current workloads by using tools such as Azure Migrate.

Until now, we have been talking about the history of Linux and various Linux distributions that are available. We have not talked about migration or what happens prior to this. In this chapter, we are going to cover concepts related to pre-migration steps. You may be wondering why we need pre-migration steps and why cannot we move our workloads directly to the cloud. The answer is simply...

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