Whether or not you are into the conspiracy theories, this thing DEFINITELY exhibits some weird properties

No, it doesn't.

Care to share some, friend?

Hey. Can you send me an email to my user name @msft.com and I can try and connect you with some folks to get this taken care of?

The email doesn't seem to be going through. I am trying to send it to jaboutboul@msft.com but am getting this message "There was a temporary problem delivering your message to jaboutboul@msft.com. Gmail will retry for 46 more hours. You'll be notified if the delivery fails permanently." Could you provide me with an alternative email address?

Try microsoft.com

Just did, thank you for pointing that out.

Thank you, just emailed you.

I think this is oversimplifying things a bit. There are many workloads running on Linux that also pay licensing for RHEL, SLES and Ubuntu Pro.

It really comes down to the requirements for your app as defined by the vendor and/or the internal team.

Licencing exists for enterprise support if you want or need it, but it is absolutely not required for linux unlike windows.

Were they actually running RedHat Enterprise Linux, or was it something like Fedora or CentOS? CentOS was basically RHEL with the branding stripped, but I don't believe they had any kind of support agreements.

That is the point.

Can you elaborate on this? It's rather general.

I've forwarded this feedback to both teams. Can you email or message me so that I can loop you into the product teams?

For general compute yes, that is correct. A good chunk of the work that we do is making sure that that HostOS plays nicely with Linux guests and vice-versa.

The Azure infrastructure, as I assume most hyperscale infrastructures are, is hybrid depending on the service. Service owners typically have a fair amount of liberty in deciding how they architect their service and what they use underneath it.

Hey everyone. We put in lots of efforts to make sure that Linux runs really well on Azure and that you have a great experience. Glad this got some traction and glad to answer any questions.

Is the hypervisor of the hosts also Linux based, or Hyper-V? I recall seeing Github Actions errors the other day that suggested a hyper-v failure even though all of our stuff is linux.

Azure uses Hyper-V behind the scenes

Windows Server aka CoreOS

Congratulations on the milestone!

Is there a paved path for bringing up NixOS on Azure VMs? I haven’t looked hard yet, but I’m about to so if this is a known thing I’d be grateful for any pointers.

My experience was that the Linux VM agents used to cause frequent problems but in the time I was using Azure I did see great improvements in them, kudos for that. I'd like to see less churn and breaking changes in agents and in Azure in general, but that seems to be a problem common to all major clouds.

> Glad this got some traction

Yes, we know.[0]

[0] https://www.kickscondor.com/satya-nadella-'reads''games'-hac...

Thanks for posting that. This post had nothing to do with Satya nor did he or anyone aside from myself and a couple other team mates see it before posting.

I really fail to see how interacting with the community to see how we feel could possibly be negative. Sure theyre doing it to push their product, but theyre also doing it to see where they need to improve.

I don't see it as particularly positive or negative, just something worth knowing.