With cloud adoption at the core of digital transformation for organizations, there has been a lot of demand to deploy and host enterprise business workloads in the cloud. Migrating Linux to Microsoft Azure offers a series of actionable insights into deploying Linux workloads to Azure. You will begin by learning about the history of IT, operating systems, Unix, Linux, and Windows, before moving on to look at the cloud and what things were like before virtualization. This will enable those not very familiar with Linux to learn the terms required to grasp the upcoming chapters. Furthermore, you will explore popular Linux distributions including RHEL, SLES, Ubuntu Pro, CentOS, and more. As you progress, you will dive into the technical details of Linux workloads such as LAMP, Java, and SAP. You will learn how to assess your current environment and plan a migration through cloud governance and operations planning. Finally, you will go through the execution of a real migration project and learn how to analyze, debug, and recover from some common problems that Linux on Azure users have encountered. By the end of this book, you will be proficient in performing the effective migration of Linux workloads to Azure for your organization.