{"id":249824,"date":"2026-05-19T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/microsoft-ships-azure-linux-4-0-for-cloud-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T17:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T21:50:14","slug":"microsoft-ships-azure-linux-4-0-for-cloud-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/microsoft-ships-azure-linux-4-0-for-cloud-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Ships Azure Linux 4.0 for Cloud AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/letsdatascience.com\/news\/microsoft-ships-azure-linux-40-for-cloud-ai-cf5201ee\">Microsoft Ships Azure Linux 4.0 for Cloud AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/letsdatascience.com\/news\/microsoft-ships-azure-linux-40-for-cloud-ai-cf5201ee\">https:\/\/letsdatascience.com\/news\/microsoft-ships-azure-linux-40-for-cloud-ai-cf5201ee<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-19 15:25:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"letsdatascience.com\">letsdatascience.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-[21px] text-stone-700 leading-[1.45] font-serif font-light pb-7 pr-4 max-w-[68ch]\">Microsoft unveiled <strong class=\"font-semibold text-neutral-900\">Azure Linux 4.0<\/strong> and <strong class=\"font-semibold text-neutral-900\">Azure Container Linux<\/strong> at Open Source Summit North America 2026, according to Microsofts open-source blog and reporting by ZDNet and CloudNativeNow. Reporting by CloudNativeNow cites Microsoft saying more than <strong class=\"font-semibold text-neutral-900\">two-thirds<\/strong> of Azure customer cores run Linux workloads and that Linux underpins services including ChatGPT, GitHub, and Microsoft 365. Coverage from ZDNet and ZDNet Japan notes Azure Linux 4.0 is a Fedora-based, general-purpose server distribution available as a VM image and on Windows Subsystem for Linux, while Azure Container Linux is an immutable, container-optimized host for regulated and container workloads. CloudNativeNow and ZDNet report the release includes <strong class=\"font-semibold text-neutral-900\">Python 3.12<\/strong> and a sandboxing feature called <strong class=\"font-semibold text-neutral-900\">pylock<\/strong>, with package signing through Azure Artifact Registry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/letsdatascience.com\/news\/microsoft-ships-azure-linux-40-for-cloud-ai-cf5201ee\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Ships Azure Linux 4.0 for Cloud AI https:\/\/letsdatascience.com\/news\/microsoft-ships-azure-linux-40-for-cloud-ai-cf5201ee Publish Date: 2026-05-19 15:25:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":249826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cloudnativenow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/azure_linux_4_0_770x330-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[97,71],"class_list":["post-249824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-fedora","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249827,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249824\/revisions\/249827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}