Microsoft announced Azure Linux 4.0 preview and Azure Container Linux GA at OSS Summit NA 2026 — a Fedora-based VM OS with atomic updates, AI-workload hardening, and a TCMalloc-Azure performance upgrade, alongside a sub-300MB container-only image purpose-built for AKS.
Linux & Systems Deep Dives
-
Azure Linux 4.0 and Azure Container Linux GA: Microsoft's Hardened OS for Cloud-Native and AI Workloads -
Building Modern Toolchains on Enterprise Linux: Python, Compilers, and Utilities on SLES 15 and Friends -
Linux Namespaces and cgroups: The Kernel Primitives That Make Containers Possible A deep dive into the Linux kernel features that underpin every container runtime — namespaces for isolation and cgroups for resource control. Understanding these makes you a better operator and demystifies what Docker and Kubernetes are actually doing.
-
NFS and Network Storage: A Complete Guide from Homelab to the Cloud An exhaustive guide to network storage — NFSv3 vs NFSv4, Samba/SMB, iSCSI block storage, Lustre parallel filesystems, and Ceph, plus how all of these map to homelab deployments and cloud equivalents on Azure, AWS, and GCP.
-
ZFS for Homelabbers: Datasets, Snapshots, Send/Receive Replication, and Scrub Schedules A practical guide to ZFS for homelab operators — pool creation and tuning, datasets and properties, snapshots and rollbacks, automated replication with zfs send/receive, and the scrub/SMART schedules that keep your data safe long-term.