We have been teasing about Microsoft Linux for years, and now when it happens it’s a bit hollow.
Hard pass.
Introducing: RHEL but worse!
This is just Mariner now allowed to exist outside AKS and rebranded. Used mainly if you are running c++ or .net components as unlike a more lightweight distribution like Alpine that ships with musl, it ships with glibc.
It’s like the hope for Linux, but with an odd sense of baggage you know just can’t get shaken away enough to start clean. Maybe if they had downloaded Fedora, didn’t nothing else, then proclaimed “we did it!!” They might have something.
If you can test and deploy azure stacks to this, as a self hosted solution for “does this work before we deploy it for real” as well as local integration testing, this is massive for developers.
Having a locally hosted simpler instance of azure would be amazing for testing our shit out and making sure we didnt break stuff before we deploy to azure for real $$$
You should look into Azure Local, formerly Azure Stack HCI, but it has limitations like no blob equivalent, but I see another commenter has already mentioned Azurite, as it is the solution that can work on some desktops. Azure Stack Hub is more complete but it requires enterprise hw, eg DELL blades etc, to run with mandatory redundancy requirements so not cheap.
it’s not the full stack, but there is a storage emulator: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-use-azurite
