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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789130966

Length 410 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Azure

Concepts

System Administration

Author (1):

Frederik Vos

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Title Page

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Preface

1. Exploring the Azure Cloud

2. Getting Started with the Azure Cloud FREE CHAPTER

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

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Index

Storage

There are two types of storage available in Azure: virtual disks that are attached to the virtual machine and Azure File Shares. In this chapter, both types will be covered. We will be discussing the following topics:

Adding a single virtual disk to a virtual machine
Working with filesystems
Working with multiple virtual disks using the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and RAID software

Storage provided by block devices

Local and remote storage can be delivered by block devices. In Azure, it's almost always a virtual hard disk that is attached to the virtual machine, but it is possible to use iSCSI volumes as well, delivered by Microsoft Azure StorSimple or third parties.

Every disk attached to a virtual machine is identified by the kernel, and after identification, the kernel hands it over to a daemon called systemd-udevd. This daemon is responsible for creating an entry in the /dev directory, updating /sys/class/block, and if necessary loading a driver to access the filesystem.

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Authors (1)

Frederik Vos

Frederik Vos

Frederik Vos, living in Purmerend, a city near Amsterdam in the Netherlands, works as a senior technical trainer of virtualization technologies, such as Citrix XenServer, and VMware vSphere. He specializes in data center infrastructures (hypervisor, network, and storage) and cloud computing (CloudStack, CloudPlatform, OpenStack, and Azure). He is also a Linux trainer and evangelist. He has a lot of knowledge as a teacher and also real-world experience as a system administrator. For the last three years he has been working as a freelance trainer and consultant within the ITGilde Cooperation, delivering many Linux training, such as Linux on Azure training for the Linux Foundation.

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