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New comment by seanmck in "Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0"

seanmck — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:54:24 +0000

To date, its only external exposure was as a container host for AKS. This announcement is about also offering it as a general-purpose OS for VMs in Azure. The public preview will come in a few weeks, at which point you'll see documentation showing how to use it in that capacity.

Source: I lead the AKS and Azure Linux PM teams at Microsoft.

New comment by seanmck in "Azure Container Instances"

seanmck — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 06:34:42 +0000

The swagger spec for the preview API is here:

https://github.com/Azure/azure-rest-api-specs/tree/current/s...

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New comment by seanmck in "Azure Container Instances"

seanmck — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:40:19 +0000

Good catch - thanks.

New comment by seanmck in "Azure Container Instances"

seanmck — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:14:10 +0000

The core second price at the top is incorrect. The per-second prices for cores and GBs are the same: $0.0000125. We are getting that fixed now.

New comment by seanmck in "Azure Container Instances"

seanmck — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:07:39 +0000

ACI lets you schedule individual containers (technically container groups, which are equivalent to K8s pods). Everything on top of that - scaling, service discovery, rolling upgrades, etc. - is up to you. That's why we think the Kubernetes connector [1] is interesting:

[1]: https://github.com/azure/aci-connector-k8s