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"These Virtual Machines were recreated by repeating the VM provisioning step. Linux Virtual Machines were not affected." So Azure supports Linux VMs?! Microsof

by mrb 12y ago

"These Virtual Machines were recreated by repeating the VM provisioning step. Linux Virtual Machines were not affected." So Azure supports Linux VMs?! Microsoft does so little Azure advertising that I had to learn this fact from their RCA. Apparently they do support it since 2012: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/microsoft-now-offering-linux-on-azure-what-does-this-mean/ http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/micro... but it is likely that many non-users of Azure do not know this.

shanselman 12y ago
In fact, something like 20% of Azure is running Linux VMs. Works great, you can use Chef, Puppet, Vagrant, and the open-source cross platform CLI to manage them. There's a thousand Linux VMs to choose from here https://vmdepot.msopentech.com/List/Index https://vmdepot.msopentech.com/List/Index
- Alupis 12y ago
  There's also the "Microsoft Loves Linux" campaign going on[1]. It's part of their new attempt to embrace the FOSS world and generally be more "open". [1] https://twitter.com/jniccolai/status/524281997632745472 https://twitter.com/jniccolai/status/524281997632745472
mynameisvlad 12y ago
It's on the homepage (http://azure.com http://azure.com) as "Launch Windows Server and Linux in minutes". Plus it has an entire section in their VMs page (http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/virtual-machines/ http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/virtual-machines/). Although yes, their advertising of Azure and Azure features isn't very huge. The ads that I have seen are for "Microsoft Cloud" (http://www.microsoft.com/enterprise/microsoftcloud/default.aspx#fbid=4RaZt1Pt9FK http://www.microsoft.com/enterprise/microsoftcloud/default.a...) which is a combination of products and technologies.
YorkianTones 12y ago
Yup, you can get up and running with a Linux VM in seconds. I've found Azure to be cheaper than AWS for micro VM instances. Running a twitter bot on AWS cost me ~ $10/month but after switching over to a CentOS VM on Azure I'm paying about $6/month. I also have dedicated Ubuntu and Windows Server VMs for personal projects and hosting.
MichaelGG 12y ago
And their Linux VMs are cheaper than Windows. Another minor outage though, I think. They recently changed the permissions on /mnt, which contains the temp disk. Now various services that were using that for temp space fail to start. Easy enough to fix by chmod on start but still...
sah88 12y ago
Scott Hanselman had a really interesting talk that covered .net/Azure on Hack Summit earlier this month. You can view the recorded video on: https://hacksummit.org/ https://hacksummit.org/
mark_l_watson 12y ago
Yes, Linux is very well supported. After being accepted into Microsoft's BizSpark program this fall (excellent! Have a startup idea? Then apply!) I started using Azure just about exclusively and their Linux VM support is very nice. I feel that Microsoft is on fairly even footing with AWS and Google Cloud.

by mrb 12y ago

shanselman 12y ago

In fact, something like 20% of Azure is running Linux VMs. Works great, you can use Chef, Puppet, Vagrant, and the open-source cross platform CLI to manage them. There's a thousand Linux VMs to choose from here https://vmdepot.msopentech.com/List/Index https://vmdepot.msopentech.com/List/Index

Alupis 12y ago
There's also the "Microsoft Loves Linux" campaign going on[1]. It's part of their new attempt to embrace the FOSS world and generally be more "open". [1] https://twitter.com/jniccolai/status/524281997632745472 https://twitter.com/jniccolai/status/524281997632745472

mynameisvlad 12y ago

It's on the homepage (http://azure.com http://azure.com) as "Launch Windows Server and Linux in minutes". Plus it has an entire section in their VMs page (http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/virtual-machines/ http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/virtual-machines/). Although yes, their advertising of Azure and Azure features isn't very huge. The ads that I have seen are for "Microsoft Cloud" (http://www.microsoft.com/enterprise/microsoftcloud/default.aspx#fbid=4RaZt1Pt9FK http://www.microsoft.com/enterprise/microsoftcloud/default.a...) which is a combination of products and technologies.

YorkianTones 12y ago

Yup, you can get up and running with a Linux VM in seconds. I've found Azure to be cheaper than AWS for micro VM instances. Running a twitter bot on AWS cost me ~ $10/month but after switching over to a CentOS VM on Azure I'm paying about $6/month. I also have dedicated Ubuntu and Windows Server VMs for personal projects and hosting.

MichaelGG 12y ago

And their Linux VMs are cheaper than Windows. Another minor outage though, I think. They recently changed the permissions on /mnt, which contains the temp disk. Now various services that were using that for temp space fail to start. Easy enough to fix by chmod on start but still...

sah88 12y ago

Scott Hanselman had a really interesting talk that covered .net/Azure on Hack Summit earlier this month. You can view the recorded video on: https://hacksummit.org/ https://hacksummit.org/

mark_l_watson 12y ago

Yes, Linux is very well supported. After being accepted into Microsoft's BizSpark program this fall (excellent! Have a startup idea? Then apply!) I started using Azure just about exclusively and their Linux VM support is very nice. I feel that Microsoft is on fairly even footing with AWS and Google Cloud.