Where we left off… At Microsoft //Build 2026, we introduced Azure Container Linux (ACL) , an immutable, container-optimized OS for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) bringing greater consistency, reduc...

The Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) driver is part of the upstream Linux kernel and provides networking support for Azure Accelerated Networking. Today, we’re announcing an out-of-tree (OOT) d...

Azure Linux 4.0 builds on years of experience creating, operating, securing, and maintaining a Linux distribution for cloud-scale workloads. That journey began with CBL-Mariner, which emerged publicl...

In architectural discussions surrounding modern data systems, we previously examined how pivoting from an event-driven to a change-driven paradigm introduces a highly efficient, low-cost model for de...

What is Azure Linux? Azure Linux is Microsoft's internal Linux distribution, designed and maintained to support Azure-scale cloud workloads. Today, Azure Linux runs across: Azure infrastructu...

A few months ago, in From Policy to Practice: Built-in CIS Benchmarks on Azure – Flexible, Hybrid-Ready, we introduced a new way to bring Center for Internet Security (CIS) Benchmarks to your Linux e...

  Video codecs compress video for transmission or storage, reducing bandwidth and storage requirements. MLVC is a modern machine-learning-based codec that uses substantially less bandwidth than con...

In 2026, cloud sovereignty matters more than ever. It has moved from a policy discussion to an operational and architectural problem. The word “sovereignty” gets used loosely, and it can mean differe...

If your organization does not use UEFI Secure Boot on Linux systems, this transition does not affect your boot path. You can stop reading now. If you do use Secure Boot, here is what you need to kn...