Source: waagent Section: admin Priority: optional Maintainer: Bastian Blank Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), dh-python, dh-systemd, python3, python3-distro, python3-setuptools, Standards-Version: 3.9.6 Homepage: https://github.com/Azure/WALinuxAgent Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/waldi/waagent Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/waldi/waagent.git Package: waagent Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${python3:Depends}, python3-pkg-resources, ca-certificates, eject, host, iptables, openssh-server, openssl, parted, sudo, net-tools, Conflicts: network-manager, walinuxagent Description: Windows Azure Linux Agent The Windows Azure Linux Agent (waagent) manages VM interaction with the Windows Azure Fabric Controller. It provides the following functionality for IaaS deployments: . * 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 - 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) . * Diagnostics - Console redirection to the serial port . * SCVMM Deployments - Detect and bootstrap the VMM agent for Linux when running in a System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012R2 environment . * 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