This section briefly introduces the authors and reviewers, the coverage of this book, the technical skills you'll need to get started, and the hardware and software needed to complete all of the topics.
About Migrating Linux to Microsoft Azure
With cloud adoption at the core of digital transformation for organizations, there has been a lot of demand to deploy and host enterprise business workloads in the cloud. Migrating Linux to Microsoft Azure offers a series of actionable insights into deploying Linux workloads to Azure.
You will begin by learning about the history of IT, operating systems, Unix, Linux, and Windows, before moving on to look at the cloud and what things were like before virtualization. This will enable those not very familiar with Linux to learn the terms required to grasp the upcoming chapters. Furthermore, you will explore popular Linux distributions including RHEL 7, RHEL 8, SLES, Ubuntu Pro, CentOS 7, and more.
As you progress, you will dive into the technical details of Linux workloads such as LAMP, Java, and SAP. You will learn how to assess your current environment and plan migrating to Azure through cloud governance and operations planning.
Finally, you will go through the execution of a real migration project and learn how to analyze, debug, and recover from some common problems that Linux on Azure users have encountered.
By the end of Linux book, you will be proficient in performing the effective migration of Linux workloads to Azure for your organization.
About the authors
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.
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.
About the reviewers
Marin Nedea is an experienced Linux Escalation Engineer, a mentor, and a certified Azure Linux Trainer, ITIL, and KT practitioner, with a history of more than 15 years in the IT services industry. He has strong theoretical and practical knowledge regarding replication, clustering, and high availability, as well as expertise in on-premises datacenters, virtualization, IBM Cloud, and Azure cloud technologies. Although he is an IT professional, his studies are in Psychology of Educational Sciences at Spiru Haret University in Bucharest, Romania. You can follow on LinkedIn at