The Leanpub 60 Day 100% Happiness Guarantee
Within 60 days of purchase you can get a 100% refund on any Leanpub purchase, in two clicks.
See full terms...
Hands-on Azure Linux 3.0
Build, Ship, Secure and Operate Cloud-Native Workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
This book is 100% completeLast updated on 2026-10-29
This book teaches you to build and run one application together. We will be creating Azure Linux node pools with Bicep, debugging nodes with tdnf, shipping slim images, securing pods with workload identity, scaling with KEDA, patching without fear, monitoring with KQL, delivering through GitOps and even training a model on a GPU.
Instead of a mysterious layer beneath your containers, it becomes a platform you understand, inspect and trust.
Minimum price
$29.99
$29.99
You pay
Author earns
PDF
EPUB
About
About the Book
No matter if you're doing daily cluster operations or shipping code to AKS, this book turns Azure Linux into a reliable everyday platform.
Microsoft's got a growing number of Azure Kubernetes Service clusters, and they use Azure Linux 3.0 for their own cloud. This book gives programmers, cloud engineers and software teams a practical way to run real workloads on it with confidence. In this hands-on book, we'll take you through building and operating a realistic field service platform with a Python API, a Go worker, PostgreSQL and a ML forecast service. Whatever you change will live in Bicep, Helm and Git, so you can always reproduce the environment and it'll be easy to review.
This book will practically teach you to use Azure Linux clusters with Bicep and Entra ID, and solve problems with nodes using tdnf, logs and kernel tuning. It will show you to use Azure Container Registry, workload identity, Key Vault, network policies and FIPS node pools. You get to see how to secure your workloads, and then scale them with KEDA. In the later chapters, you'll be looking at things like safe patching and upgrades, KQL monitoring, GitOps delivery with GitHub Actions and Flux, GPU training with MLflow, and production backup and cost control.
Key Learnings
- Deploy reproducible Azure Linux 3.0 clusters on AKS with Bicep and Entra ID.
- Resolve Azure Linux nodes using debug sessions, tdnf, kubelet logs and kernel tuning.
- Build slim distroless images, scan them with Trivy and release them through Helm.
- Secure workloads with workload identity, Key Vault, Pod Security and FIPS node pools.
- Route and restrict traffic using Azure CNI Overlay, Gateway API and Calico policies.
- Scale apps and clusters with HPA, KEDA, cluster autoscaler, Spot and zonal pools.
- Patch and upgrade node images through upgrade channels and maintenance windows.
- Monitor and troubleshoot clusters using Container Insights, KQL and alerts.
- Automate delivery with GitHub Actions, OIDC federation and Flux GitOps.
- Train, track and serve GPU models, and harden the production with backups.
Table of Content
- Exploring Azure Linux
- Deploying Azure Linux Cluster
- Exploring Azure Linux Nodes
- Building Azure Linux Images
- Deploying and Debugging Workloads
- Building Networking for AKS
- Scaling Apps and Clusters
- Securing Clusters and Workloads
- Upgrading and Patching Nodes
- Monitoring and Troubleshooting Operations
- Automating Delivery Pipelines
- Running GPU Workloads
- Administering ML and AI Pipelines
- Operating Production Clusters
Categories
Feedback
Author
About the Author
GitforGits | Asian Publishing House
We are the engineer’s publisher, the coder’s mentor, and the content alchemist—meticulously turning dense tech into practical gold. With a growing library of 100+ titles, we don’t just develop technical books, rather we build roadmaps for professionals across Python, MySQL, DevOps, Rust, AI, Kotlin, Arduino, Golang and everything around the massive IT ecosystem. Every chapter, every script, every project is a tool in the hands of developers who want to get things done.
Where others summarize, we construct step-by-step learning blueprints, cutting through clutter, banning the fluff, and ensuring every paragraph delivers hands-on value. Our audience isn’t learning from scratch—they’re leveling up with purpose, and we stand by them with code-first content, consistent project workflows, and a zero-redundancy approach.
Earn $8 on a $10 Purchase, and $16 on a $20 Purchase
We pay 80% royalties on purchases of $7.99 or more, and 80% royalties minus a 50 cent flat fee on purchases between $0.99 and $7.98. You earn $8 on a $10 sale, and $16 on a $20 sale. So, if we sell 5000 non-refunded copies of your book for $20, you'll earn $80,000.
(Yes, some authors have already earned much more than that on Leanpub.)
Learn more about writing on Leanpub
Free Updates. DRM Free.
If you buy a Leanpub book, you get free updates for as long as the author updates the book! Many authors use Leanpub to publish their books in-progress, while they are writing them. All readers get free updates, regardless of when they bought the book or how much they paid (including free).
Most Leanpub books are available in PDF (for computers) and EPUB (for phones, tablets and Kindle). The formats that a book includes are shown at the top right corner of this page.
Finally, Leanpub books don't have any DRM copy-protection nonsense, so you can easily read them on any supported device.
Learn more about Leanpub's ebook formats and where to read them
Write and Publish on Leanpub
You can use Leanpub to easily write, publish and sell in-progress and completed ebooks and online courses!
Leanpub is a powerful platform for serious authors, combining a simple, elegant writing and publishing workflow with a store focused on selling in-progress ebooks.
Leanpub is a magical typewriter for authors: just write in plain text, and to publish your ebook, just click a button. (Or, if you are producing your ebook your own way, you can even upload your own PDF and/or EPUB files and then publish with one click!) It really is that easy.