It is nothing new that Gnu / Linux distributions exist within Microsoft services, although it is new that the teams of those distributions work with Microsoft to create a new product. This is the case of Canonical, the Ubuntu team and Microsoft, which have created their own kernel for Microsoft's Azure platform.
Microsoft Azure is a cloud server service that allows you to create machines with a specific profile. Among these profiles there is the possibility of creating environments with Ubuntu Server or environments to develop specific applications. In any case, from now on, users of this service will find a more optimized version of Ubuntu than usual.
The new kernel is introduced in Ubuntu 16.04, the LTS version of Ubuntu and its optimization allows a performance increase of 10%, Hyper-V socket capacity, support for the latest Hyper-V device drivers and features, and an 18% kernel size reduction.
The new kernel for Microsoft Azure will be compatible with Canonical services
Microsoft Azure users you will already find this kernel in your new Ubuntu instances, but if you doubt what kernel you are using or want to know the kernel you are using, in the terminal we just have to execute the command «uname-r» and see if the kernel we have has the label «-azure». This new kernel will be compatible with all Ubuntu and Microsoft premium services.
This new kernel is not the only new thing that Canonical and Microsoft will present to us. On October 2, Microsoft has convened an event where it will launch new products for its users and among the guests or rather, among the speakers, Mark Shuttleworth confirmed. So it looks like both the Ubuntu kernel and bash won't be the only things Microsoft users will get from the orange distribution Do not you think?