Azure Linux Agent 的安装和使用

Azure Linux Agent 的作用

微软提供的Azure Linux Agent(waagent)，能够定制发布到Azure上的VM的provison行为，方便与Azure 服务器进行交流。具体提供的功能如下：

• 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

  • Configures virtual NUMA (disable for kernel <2.6.37)
  • Consumes Hyper-V entropy for /dev/random
  • Configures SCSI timeouts for the root device (which could be remote)