I’m usually writing about Windows clusters, but I know there are quite a few people running Linux to support things like Oracle and MySQL. When moving those workloads to Azure and you want to make sure you plan for high availability. Fortunately my colleague Tony Tomarchio over at www.LinuxClustering.net is an expert in Linux High Availability and has published a great step-by-step guide to Linux failover clusters in Azure.

http://www.linuxclustering.net/2016/03/09/step-by-step-how-to-configure-a-linux-failover-cluster-in-microsoft-azure-iaas-without-shared-storage-azure-sanless/