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Do you have a source for the majority of of azure running on Linux? Would be very interested to see this.
by wallstop 8y ago
Do you have a source for the majority of of azure running on Linux? Would be very interested to see this.
- bubblethink 8y agoI think they meant majority of azure clients (i.e., people running vms on azure) running linux, not that azure itself runs on linux. Linux was above 40% sometime last year in azure stats, and I think it crossed 50% sometime recently.
- mr_toad 8y agoOutside of a forklift migration, why would you run a Windows Server VM?
- techntoke 8y agoThis is the only article I could find doing a quick search: https://www.wired.com/2015/09/microsoft-using-linux-run-cloud/ https://www.wired.com/2015/09/microsoft-using-linux-run-clou... https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-showcases-the-azure-cloud-switch-acs/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-showcases-t... However, I could have swore I read semi-recently that Azure itself was primarily running on Linux, but I could be wrong here in some regards.
- crb 8y agohttps://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/linux-now-dominates-azure/ https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/linux-now-dominates... "Today, Scott Guthrie, Microsoft's executive vice president of the cloud and enterprise group, said in an interview, "it's about half now, but it varies on the day because a lot of these workloads are elastic, but sometimes slightly over half of Azure VMs are Linux." Microsoft later clarified, "about half Azure VMs are Linux.""
- philliphaydon 8y agoSo Linux running on Azure, not Azure running on Linux?