Operating system updates include feature updates, bug fixes, and security improvements. It is important to update operating systems periodically. This is applying to desktop computers as well as servers. If it is windows operating systems, there are many tools out there that can use to manage the update process. But when it comes to Linux, we struggle as not many tools support Linux system updates. Luckily in Azure, we can manage updates for Linux VMs without any 3rd party tool.
In this post, I am going to demonstrate how to enable patch management for Linux VM and how we can automate the patch deployment task.
In my demo environment, I do not have any Linux machine. Let's go ahead and create one.
[su_note]For the configuration process, I will be using PowerShell. Therefore, please make sure you have Azure PowerShell module installed. More info about it can find under https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/azure/install-az-ps?view=azps-2.6.0[/su_note]
1. Launch PowerShell console and connect to Azure using Connect-AzAccount
2. Then create a new resource group using,
New-AzResourceGroup -Name REBELRG -Location "East US"
In the above, REBELRG is the resource group name and East US is the resource group location.
3. Then we need to create a new Linux VM. In this demo, I am going to create one with Ubuntu operating system.
$mylogin = Get-Credential
New-AzVm -ResourceGroupName REBELRG -Name "REBELVM01" -Location "East US" -VirtualNetworkName "REBELVNET1" -SubnetName "REBELVMSubnet1" -PublicIpAddressName "REBELVM01IP1" -OpenPorts 22 -Image UbuntuLTS -Size Standard_D2s_v3 -Credential $mylogin
In the above, REBELVM01 is the VM name. It is running UbuntuLTS edition. I have specified it using -Image parameter. It also using Standard_D2s_v3 vm size. This also has SSH connection enabled.
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