Migrating Linux to Microsoft Azure : a hands-on guide to efficiently relocating your Linux workload to Azure / Rithin Skaria and Toni Willberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Skaria, Rithin, author.

Willberg, Toni, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linux.

Microsoft programming.

Computer networking & communications.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (211 pages)

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing, Limited, [2021]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Biography/History:

Skaria Rithin: Rithin Skaria is an open-source evangelist with over 9 years of experience in managing open-source workloads on Azure, AWS, and OpenStack. He is currently working for Microsoft as a Customer Engineer and is part of several open-source community activities conducted within Microsoft. He has played a vital role in several open-source deployments and the administration and migration of these workloads to the cloud. He also co-authored Linux Administration on Azure, Second Edition and Azure for Architects, Third Edition both published by Packt. Connect with him on LinkedIn at rithin-skaria. Willberg Toni: Toni Willberg is a Linux on Azure subject matter expert with 25 years of professional IT experience. He has worked with Microsoft and Red Hat as a solution architect, helping clients and partners in their open-source and cloud journeys. He has been involved in the technical reviews of various books published by Packt. Currently, Toni holds the position of Head of Cloud Business Unit at Iglu, a managed service provider company offering professional public cloud projects and services. Connect with him on Twitter at ToniWillberg.

Summary:

Migrating Linux to Microsoft Azure enables your organization to maximize the existing investments on Linux and become sustainable with efficient migration of existing Linux workloads to Azure.

Contents:

Cover

FM

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Linux: History and future in the cloud

A brief history of Linux

Unix

Linux

Linux version history

Linux evolution and distributions

Typical Linux use cases in IT infrastructure

Workstations

Application servers

Database servers

Virtualization

Containers

Cloud computing

Container orchestration

Big data

Challenges in on-premises infrastructure

Cloud economics

Scale comes with benefits

Many services available

Benefits of migrating to Azure

The journey from Linux to Azure

Clustering

Subscription portability

Summary

Chapter 2: Understanding Linux distributions

Linux licensing and open-source business models

Open-source licenses

Enterprise agreements

Linux subscriptions

Popular Linux distributions

Linux on Azure

Benefits of Linux on Azure

Linux support scope

Licensing on Azure

Available distros

Chapter 3: Assessment and migration planning

Popular workloads on Linux

LAMP

HPC, clustering, and SAP

Shared storage

Pre-project preparations

Identifying relevant roles and responsibilities

Cloud governance and operations

Migration assessment

Preparing a cloud migration plan

Discovery and evaluation

Involving key stakeholders

Estimating the savings

Identifying tools

Assessing tooling

Azure Migrate

Service Map

Azure TCO calculator

Hands-on assess lab

Prerequisites

Setting up the Azure Migrate project

Setting up and registering the Azure Migrate appliance

Verifying discovered VMs in the portal

Running an assessment

Reviewing the assessment

Dependency analysis

Chapter 4: Performing migration to Azure

Hands-on migration lab

Migrating servers to Azure

Migrating databases

Summary.

Chapter 5: Operating Linux on Azure

Optimize

Azure Cost Management

Azure Advisor

Manage and Secure

Linux Agent for Azure

Extensions

Data protection

Azure Disk Encryption

Updating Linux on Azure

Azure Update Management

Hands-on managing Linux on Azure

Creating a Log Analytics workspace

Onboarding an Azure virtual machine

Data collection

Querying data

Chapter 6: Troubleshooting and problem solving

Remote connectivity and VM start issues

Run commands without a network connection

Boot diagnostics and serial console access

Common boot problems

Common Linux runtime challenges

SELinux

Storage configuration issues

Disk encryption problems

Resizing disks

Performance issues and analysis

Azure diagnostics tooling - a summary

Opening support requests

New horizons for Linux in Azure

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781801070591

1801070598

OCLC:

1463579030