Microsoft Announces Azure Linux 4.0, Its First General-Purpose Server Linux Distribution

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Posted on Thu May 28 2026 | 3:19 pm

Microsoft announced Azure Linux 4.0 and Azure Container Linux at Open Source Summit. Azure Linux 4.0 is a Fedora-based general-purpose server distribution for Azure VMs, the first time Microsoft has offered a supported Linux beyond container hosting. Azure Container Linux is an immutable container-optimized host built on Flatcar.

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