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Package walinuxagent is an ubuntu distribution of upstream Microsoft Azure Linux Agent that manages Linux provisioning, and VM interaction with the Azure Fabric Controller. It provides the following functionality for Linux and FreeBSD IaaS deployments: This document describes the process to update and test new versions of the walinuxagent package in SRUs.
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'''Image Provisioning''' The walinuxagent package is an ubuntu distribution of the upstream Microsoft Azure Linux Agent that manages Linux provisioning, and VM interaction with the Azure Fabric Controller.
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* Creation of a user account It provides the following functionality for ubuntu cloud image deployments:
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* Configuring SSH authentication types  * Image Provisioning.
 * Networking setup.
 * Kernel setup.
 * Diagnostics setup.
 * SCVMM Deployments
 * VM Extensions Management
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* Deployment of SSH public keys and key pairs

* Setting the host name

* Publishing the host name to the platform DNS

* Reporting SSH host key fingerprint to the platform

* Resource Disk Management

* Formatting and mounting the resource disk

* Configuring swap space

'''Networking'''

* Manages routes to improve compatibility with platform DHCP servers

* Ensures the stability of the network interface name

'''Kernel'''

* Configure virtual NUMA (disable for kernel <2.6.37)

* Consume Hyper-V entropy for /dev/random

* Configure SCSI timeouts for the root device (which could be remote)

'''Diagnostics'''

* Console redirection to the serial port

'''SCVMM Deployments'''

* Detect and bootstrap the VMM agent for Linux when running in a System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012R2 environment

'''VM Extension'''

* Inject component authored by Microsoft and Partners into Linux VM (IaaS) to enable software and configuration automation

* VM Extension reference implementation on https://github.com/Azure/azure-linux-extensions		 For a more detailed list of functionallity this package provides to ubuntu cloud images, refer to the upstream project page at github: https://github.com/Azure/WALinuxAgent

walinuxagentUpdates

This document describes the process to update and test new versions of the walinuxagent package in SRUs.

The walinuxagent package is an ubuntu distribution of the upstream Microsoft Azure Linux Agent that manages Linux provisioning, and VM interaction with the Azure Fabric Controller.

It provides the following functionality for ubuntu cloud image deployments:

  • Image Provisioning.
  • Networking setup.
  • Kernel setup.
  • Diagnostics setup.
  • SCVMM Deployments
  • VM Extensions Management

For a more detailed list of functionallity this package provides to ubuntu cloud images, refer to the upstream project page at github: https://github.com/Azure/WALinuxAgent

walinuxagentUpdates (last edited 2019-06-05 22:02:31 by vorlon)