The Azure Linux Container Host is an operating system image that's optimized for running container workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Microsoft maintains the Azure Linux Container Host and based it on CBL-Mariner, an open-source Linux distribution created by Microsoft. The Azure Linux Container Host is lightweight, containing only the packages needed to run container workloads. The ...
General FAQs What is Azure Linux? The Azure Linux Container Host is an operating system image that's optimized for running container workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Microsoft maintains the Azure Linux Container Host and based it on Azure Linux (also known as Mariner), an open-source Linux distribution created by Microsoft.
At the beginning of each month, Mariner releases a minor image version containing medium, high, and critical package updates from the previous month. This release also includes minor kernel updates and bug fixes.
Note (1): Images for OpenJDK 8 ship with binaries of Eclipse Temurin, from the Eclipse Adoptium project. Note (2): Legacy container image tags such as 25-mariner, 21-mariner, 17-mariner, 11-mariner, and 8-mariner that were previously built with Mariner 2.0, are now mirroring the tags -azurelinux, following a rebrand and upgrade of this Linux distribution. If necessary, users can downgrade to ...
CBL-Mariner, short for Common Base Linux Mariner, is a Linux distribution developed by Microsoft for its cloud infrastructure and edge products and services. CBL-Mariner and Ubuntu are Linux distributions, they are not 100% compatible.
Hi All, I am from Nuance communications. We are planning to use CBL-Mariner in azure as an image which our users can use to deploy VM from it and run docker containers on top of it. While reading few articles,…