Comment by technion
18 days ago
Note that despite being named here as "Azure Linux" and being described as a "General purpose Linux OS for Azure", once you go to the product documentation it's referred to as "Microsoft Azure Linux Container Host for AKS", and the Quickstart guide is about how to deploy a Kubernetes cluster. It doesn't seem very capable of general use.
The docs aren't set to be updated until after the "official" announcement at Build in a couple weeks, but this is a good call-out. We'll see about getting this updated to clarify.
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.