waagent - 2.2.45-4~deb10u1 main

The Windows Azure Linux Agent (waagent) manages VM interaction with the Windows
Azure Fabric Controller. It provides the following functionality for IaaS
deployments:
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* 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
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* Networking
- Manages routes to improve compatibility with platform DHCP servers
- Ensures the stability of the network interface name
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* Kernel
- Configure virtual NUMA (disable for kernel <2.6.37)
- Consume Hyper-V entropy for /dev/random
- Configure SCSI timeouts for the root device (which could be remote)
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* Diagnostics
- Console redirection to the serial port
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* SCVMM Deployments
- Detect and bootstrap the VMM agent for Linux when running in a System
Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012R2 environment
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* VM Extension
- Inject component authored by Microsoft and Partners into Linux VM (IaaS)
to enable software and configuration automation
see https://github.com/Azure/azure-linux-extensions

Priority: extra
Section: admin
Suites: amber byzantium crimson dawn landing 
Maintainer: Bastian Blank <bastian.blank [꩜] credativ.de>
 
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