Microsoft’s Azure Linux distro is now generally available

Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure Linux, an open-source container host OS designed to run multiple containers in the cloud, aimed at making it easy for developers to deploy and manage container workloads. Azure Linux has been in public preview for two years since October 2022 and is designed and deployed to run on Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) optimized for Azure. It is an opinionated distribution that allows users to define and focus on the components of the distribution required to support a container host, while keeping any extraneous package dependencies to a minimum.