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