Microsoft announced Azure VM Image Builder has reached general availability, providing a managed service that reduces the complexity of manually creating virtual machines images -- with associated ...

Microsoft is adding support for yet another Linux distribution on Azure. On January 18, Microsoft announced Clear Linux OS for Intel Architecture is available in the Azure Marketplace. Clear Linux ...

Although the section about container images is garbled, Microsoft has also built an internal container image repository for Azure Linux to pull images from.

And, as Sanders said, Linux and open-source are "where the customers are." So, what choices does Microsoft offer corporate Linux users on Azure? Well, first you can bring your own Linux distribution.

Offensive Security has released Kali Linux 2022.4, the fourth and final version of 2022, with new Azure and QEMU images, six new tools, and improved desktop experiences.