Manage and Secure
In this stage, we will make sure that our migrated resources are secured, and that they are managed correctly. This phase is all about security and data protection and we are going to look at some of the tools that are used to achieve these.
One of the most important pieces of Linux management in Azure is a small component called the Linux Agent.
Linux Agent for Azure
Linux provisioning and interaction between the Azure Fabric Controller (FC) and the virtual machine is managed by the Microsoft Azure Linux Agent, also referred to as waagent or WaLinuxAgent.
The following functionality of Linux on Azure deployments are managed by the Azure Linux Agent:
- Provisioning images
- Network routing and interface naming
- Kernel configuration
- Diagnostics configuration
- Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) deployment
- Virtual machine extensions
The agent talks with Azure Service Fabric via two channels. During virtual...
