The "very opinionated" part of that means Azure Linux's primary role is as a container host for AKS. The Microsoft-customized open-source distribution "allows us to have a very defined, very opinionated Azure focus and to tune the components of the distribution to be exactly what we need to support a container host and try to keep the dependencies, extraneously packages, things like that to a minimum," Perrin said during a Q&A session at Build 2023, where Redmond announced Azure Linux's general availability. Microsoft started CBL-Mariner because it needed an internal Linux distro and a consistent platform for the myriad workloads engineers were running on Azure, according to Jim Perrin, principal program manager for Microsoft Azure Linux. ![]() The Azure Linux distro stems from the IT giant's CBL-Mariner project, CBL standing for Common Base Linux. For a deeper dive into the history of this Azure Linux distro, our developer site DevClass has a tale on the topic.
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