You Asked: Can Azure Run Linux?
Contents Azure Supports Common Linux Distributions Including Red Hat, Suse, Ubuntu, Centos, Debian, Oracle Linux, and Flatcar Linux. Create Your Own Linux...
Azure supports common Linux distributions including Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, Oracle Linux, and Flatcar Linux. Create your own Linux virtual machines (VMs), deploy and run containers in Kubernetes, or choose from hundreds of pre-configured images and Linux workloads available in Azure Marketplace.
What operating system does Azure run on?
Microsoft Azure
| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
|---|---|
| Initial release | February 1, 2010 |
| Operating system | Linux, Microsoft Windows |
| License | Closed source for platform, Open source for client SDKs |
| Website | azure.microsoft.com |
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How much of Azure is Linux?
Select your preferred distribution with Azure Linux virtual machines (VMs), including Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, and CoreOS—about 50 percent of all Azure compute cores are Linux.
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