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Azure Deploying Workloads

Moving open source workloads to Microsoft Azure provides several benefits: flexibility to maximize current investments across platforms; easy infrastructure management through a hybrid cloud solution using existing skills; and integrated support through a joint support program between Microsoft and Linux distributors across 18 regions. Additional advantages include increased security through features built into Linux on Azure as well as cost benefits through flexible pricing models.

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Azure Deploying Workloads

Moving open source workloads to Microsoft Azure provides several benefits: flexibility to maximize current investments across platforms; easy infrastructure management through a hybrid cloud solution using existing skills; and integrated support through a joint support program between Microsoft and Linux distributors across 18 regions. Additional advantages include increased security through features built into Linux on Azure as well as cost benefits through flexible pricing models.

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Deploying Open Source Workloads on Azure

In order to gain advantage in today’s global environment, IT departments have to enable their
teams to increase innovation while reducing costs, and to create flexible environments (to scale
up and down). IT suppliers must provide their clients the tools necessary to meet increasingly
global customer needs. To fulfill these goals, many users are moving their workloads to the
cloud, while trying to figure out how to minimize the tumult, and the downtime. Moving their
open source workloads to Microsoft Azure - the clients will get a broad set of benefits - and in
this article we will present some of them.
Advantages of the Azure Cloud
 Flexibility. Azure Cloud offers multiple choices for the companies and by these choices -
they can maximize their current investments. Microsoft provides support for different
platforms: IaaS (infrastructure as a service), PaaS (platform as a container), Linux, Java and
several Web application platforms. The clients can develop and test their Linux and open-
source components in Azure. The clients can use the tools they prefer, can apply their
current skills and run virtually any application, using their data source, with their own
operating system, on their device.
 Easy infrastructure management. IT departments that have to manage the infrastructure,
need to develop solutions that fit their unique, emerging needs. They also need to ensure
their teams can get started quickly with their existing investments and skills. Azure provides
great flexibility for the teams in managing infrastructure, solid portability and different
payment schemes. By applying a hybrid solution, you can structure your workloads in order
to increase the effectiveness and productivity, keeping some on-premises and moving others
to the cloud. You can choose a Linux, or mixed Linux and Windows environment, so you
can manage your platforms with skills you already possess. For example, you can use
‘command line interface’ to manage your infrastructure in Azure, on the same way you do in
the current Linux environment. And because Azure is provider for different Linux
distributions, moving your Linux licences to Azure is simple.

 Integrated support for truly open source deployments. Some events disturb the IT managers
more than working with multiple vendors, such as urgent support issues, and trying to
resolve them within reasonable timescale and effort. When you deploy open source
workloads on Azure, you can avoid this frustration, because Linux clients get fully
integrated support with co-located Linux experts - together with Microsoft engineers and
support teams.
Microsoft, together with some Linux distributors has designed a common Ticket exchange
program that offers a joint workflow and brings combined support by mixed teams of
engineers across 18 regions - to provide stable and effective resolution. Another advantage is
that Azure is a really open source environment, so you get complete support with
interoperability across different set of open source tools, frameworks, and services. Azure
Marketplace is a single needed resource that helps your team to develop state-of-the-art
products that will advance your business and satisfy clients.
 Increased security for the online premises. Today, there are numerous cases of different
security breaches that offend networks and keep IT admins on a constant alert. In order to
improve the security of their companies, many IT professionals choose open source
platforms (Linux) for its high-grade security capabilities. Linux usage on Azure combines its
own security features with the security of Azure, providing consent coverage and more
certifications than any other cloud provider, with security and privacy built in.
Linux on Azure also offers: encrypted links and operations processes, using standardized
transport protocols; network infrastructure to securely connect virtual machines between
each other, and to connect on-premises datacenters with Azure VMs; advanced threat
management, offering Microsoft anti-malware for cloud services and virtual machines,
intrusion protection, DOS attack prevention, and regular penetration testing.

PaaS / Container usage


As for the Azure PaaS offerings, there are times when clients want to use a Linux VM as the
main platform to run a web application. This is due to several factors, such as using a hybrid
cloud solution (with the previous environment), or because a certain language or framework is
better supported or runs better under Linux. Also, there’s a financial benefit for using Web Apps
on Linux, since the cost of running is cut by 50%. For a large solution - this can make a
significant difference.
To enable this, there is a possibility to run Azure Web Apps under Linux. The Azure Cloud
provides a dual mode of deployment and operation (hosted, or custom container) to better fulfill
your needs. This approach will enable your team to get familiar with containers quickly, by using
the appropriate model. The abstraction of the containerization means that developers don’t have
to worry about underlying VM/Container infrastructure, or about learning how to configure and
maintain orchestration services. And, based on the team’s experience, the team can “slither, walk
or run” to full container-based architecture.

Hybrid Cloud - Azure Stack


According to Microsoft statistics - 40% of all VMs on Azure are running Linux. With the Azure
stack - the companies can bring the cloud into their premises. By hybrid cloud they can fulfill
business and technical requirements with combination of cloud and on-premises deployments for
their needs. Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS) brings functionalities beyond traditional
virtualization. Virtual Machine Scale Sets enable rapid deployments with true auto-scaling for
modern workloads. The Azure Stack will provide hybrid deployment choice and portability to
cloud applications, serverless computing, distributed microservices architectures, and container
management on-premises. Users can apply broad set of open source technologies: Linux, Java,
Python, Node.js etc.

Cost benefits
The Linux/ Azure open-source combination will provide you flexible pricing options. You can
move to the cloud at your pace and choose a pricing model that is suitable for you. Regarding
payment models, you can choose from: ‘pay as you go’, or ‘bring your own subscription’
options. For development and testing, you can provision and abandon short-lived Linux virtual
machines and pay by the minute – only for what you use.
According to InfoWorld’s analysis (November, 2017) - Azure is with the lowest on-demand and
discounted instance pricing among all Cloud providers. With the Azure Compute pre-purchase
plan, if you have constant, permanent workloads with known compute needs, you can pre-
purchase Azure compute capacity with discounts of up to 56 per cent. Almost all Linux
distributions are free, and for the cost of Red Hat licenses - with Azure Marketplace, you’ll pay
only what you used.

How can we help you?


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transformation, flexible (cloud) infrastructure solutions and open source solutions. It is our
primary goal to provide state-of-the-art IT solutions and services, and to deliver products that are
beyond clients' expectations. Our solutions provide reliability and high quality; they are based on
the latest business technology, implementation, support, maintenance, and permanent monitoring
and upgrade.
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