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...

When you let a model generate code and you actually execute it, you are handing the model a Python REPL on whatever machine runs the agent. That sounds alarmist — right up until a planner (yours, min...

Today at Microsoft Build, we're announcing the public preview of Azure Linux 4.0 - Microsoft's first party Linux distribution, purpose-built for Azure. Azure Linux 4.0 is available now for Azure Virt...

Today at Microsoft Build 2026, we’re announcing the general availability of Azure Container Linux (ACL): a secure, immutable container host designed to help platform teams run Kubernetes workloads at...

Open source is where developers experiment, collaborate, and turn new ideas into tools that others can build on. At Microsoft Build, we’re creating a dedicated space for that energy: the Open Source ...