
It provides a reduced attack surface and eliminates patching and maintenance of unnecessary packages. Azure Linux is lightweight, only including the necessary set of packages needed to run container workloads. Every package is built from source and validated, ensuring your services run on proven components. The Azure Linux container host on AKS uses a native AKS image that provides one place to do all Linux development. To learn more about Azure Linux, see the Azure Linux documentation. You can deploy Azure Linux node pools in a new cluster, add Azure Linux node pools to your existing Ubuntu clusters, or migrate your Ubuntu nodes to Azure Linux nodes.

The Azure Linux container host provides reliability and consistency from cloud to edge across the AKS, AKS-HCI, and Arc products. The Azure Linux container host for AKS is an open-source Linux distribution created by Microsoft, and it’s available as a container host on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
