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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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Toni Willberg Toni Willberg
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The journey from Linux to Azure

In this section, we'll cover some aspects of typical Linux environments that we should know about when we are considering migration to Azure. We'll go through some key features and discuss the solutions available on Azure. We will also provide links to related Azure documentation throughout this section to make your learning curve a bit shallower—the documentation covers Linux on Azure extremely well.

Before going into the technical details, it's good to know that you don't necessarily need to implement everything yourself. Azure Marketplace has lots of Linux-based solutions that may solve your problem in a turnkey fashion.

Azure Marketplace has over 2,000 Linux VM-based images at the time of writing compared to about 800 Windows-based images. Linux is clearly dominating the marketplace. Out of those images, only 14 are from Microsoft; the rest are created and published by third-party ISV companies. For example, if you...

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