Best Platform for Red Hat Linux Workloads: Choose Azure?
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Apr 3, 2024 1:45 AM

Best Platform for Red Hat Linux Workloads: Choose Azure?

by HubSite 365 about Microsoft

Software Development Redmond, Washington

Azure DataCenterComputeLearning Selection

Maximize RHEL performance on Azure: Seamless migration, optimal security, and cost savings with Azure Migrate & more.

Key insights

 

  • Leverage Azure Migrate to transition on-prem Linux VMs to Azure for cloud-native or hybrid deployment.
  • Utilize Azure Resource Manager templates, Terraform, and Ansible playbooks for deploying and orchestrating infrastructure.
  • Benefit from cost-saving opportunities and performance optimization tools, including license portability and diverse compute options.
  • Experience flexibility with Azure, allowing RHEL workloads to run across global regions and edge locations.
  • Red Hat® Cloud Access enables customers to run eligible Red Hat product subscriptions on certified public cloud providers, maintaining the same terms of subscription.
 

 

Azure and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Integration

 

Azure provides an efficient platform for running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) workloads, with Azure Migrate facilitating the transition of on-premises Linux virtual machines (VMs) to Azure. This ensures businesses can achieve cloud-native or hybrid deployment seamlessly. Especially, integrating Azure with RHEL allows for the deployment and orchestration of infrastructure using Azure Resource Manager templates, Terraform, and Ansible playbooks, streamlining the migration process.

The partnership between Azure and Red Hat via the Red Hat® Cloud Access program ensures that customers can leverage their existing Red Hat product subscriptions when moving to Azure, without altering the subscription terms. This promotes a cost-effective and flexible approach to cloud migration and management. Additionally, Azure’s wide range of compute options, including Azure Confidential Computing VMs, helps optimize performance and scalability while ensuring data security and compliance.

 

 

 

People also ask

Can we use OpenShift with Azure?

Azure Red Hat OpenShift represents a collaboration between Microsoft and Red Hat, providing a managed OpenShift clusters service on Microsoft Azure. This offering is the result of joint engineering efforts and is supported through an integrated assistance framework.

Why run Linux on Azure?

The endorsement of Linux by Azure enables users to leverage the pace of open-source innovation without constraints. Azure's unparalleled support integrates management, control, security, safety, and compliance features essential for all organizations.

What percentage of Azure runs Linux?

More than 60% of the processing cores used by Azure customers are dedicated to Linux workloads. Azure supports a wide selection of Linux distributions, including, but not limited to, Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, and CoreOS, catering to diverse user preferences and requirements.

What Linux operating systems are supported by Azure?

Azure extends its support to a broad spectrum of Linux distributions alongside various versions of Windows Server. Supported Linux variants include Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, CoreOS, Debian, Oracle Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise, openSUSE, and Ubuntu. This wide compatibility ensures a robust support system for a range of disk storage preferences for new virtual machine provisioning.

 

Keywords

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