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I'm pretty interested in your experiences with linux on azure. I've been to both azure and aws workshops, and I found the azure presenters to be somewhat host

by anko 13y ago

I'm pretty interested in your experiences with linux on azure. I've been to both azure and aws workshops, and I found the azure presenters to be somewhat hostile towards alternative operating systems. They had a slide saying they linux was 100% supported, but they didn't talk to it at all. In fact, it was nearly comical how the presenter didn't want to touch my mac to help with setup. From my reading, azure seems to be pretty awesome as far as integration with visual studio, but is seriously lacking when it comes to features on their load balancer etc. Their security model is kinda weird too, where defaults open your firewall to the rest of azure commonly. So that's just my ideas, what are your experiences? have you seen AWS opsworks?

tstrimple 13y ago
I'm sorry you had a bad experience at the Azure workshop. There are a lot of people running those types of events both inside and outside of Microsoft and the quality is all over the map. Unfortunately a lot of technical people at Microsoft are still very insular. They primarily interact with Microsoft friendly .NET developers and rarely have to stray into the big scary world of *nix. They probably don't talk about the Linux support or help with your Mac because it would show their ignorance on the subject. Fortunately there is also another side of Microsoft. A side which is doing fantastic work in the open source community as well as with things like the Linux support in Azure. I would be happy to talk more about Linux support in Azure and I am more than capable of helping out with any setup required, regardless of your operating system of choice. If you're still interested, you can reach me at tistrimp@microsoft.com