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Get started with Azure Linux

This guide provides a set of quickstart tutorials to help you quickly deploy and start using Azure Linux in your environment.

Note

Azure Linux 4.0 is now in preview and is strictly limited to evaluation and testing purposes. It's not suitable for production use.

Select your quickstart

Quickstart Description Time to complete
Create an Azure Linux virtual machine (VM) Deploy an Azure Linux 4.0 VM using the Azure portal and connect to it over SSH. Azure Linux VMs give you a Microsoft-supported, Azure-optimized Linux distribution for general-purpose workloads. Learn more. 10 minutes
Deploy an Azure Linux container host for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Create an AKS cluster with Azure Linux as the container host using Azure CLI. The Azure Linux container host delivers fast boot times, strong security defaults, and end-to-end Microsoft ownership from kernel to CVE response. Learn more. 10 minutes
Deploy Azure Container Linux (ACL) for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Create an AKS cluster using ACL, an immutable, container-optimized operating system (OS) for AKS node pools with stronger security defaults and a read-only root filesystem. Learn more. 10 minutes

After completing a quickstart, you can use the following resources to learn more about deploying and managing Azure Linux in your environment: