walinuxagentUpdates

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:

Image Provisioning

* Creation of a user account * Configuring SSH authentication types * 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