Popular workloads on Linux
In real-world scenarios, we only migrate servers with workloads running on them, as there is no point in migrating a VM with no services running to the cloud. Instead of doing that, you could deploy a new server in Azure directly and start developing on top of that. Let's have a quick recap of the popular workloads on Linux. Some of these were already explained in Chapter 1, Linux: History and future in the cloud. Let's recall the varieties of workloads, including application hosting (such as Java and LAMP), Search, and big data, and see how Azure supports these.
LAMP
The acronym LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python. Typically, it is the first service stack that any Linux administrator would set up and is usually used to host dynamic and database-driven websites. In LAMP:
- Linux (L) refers to any Linux distribution; you can use Ubuntu or Fedora or CentOS or any other distribution.
- Apache (A) is the web server that...
