Microsoft has just announced the availability of Azure Linux 3.0 for Azure Kubernetes Service AKS, which is now available as a preview on AKS version 1.31. Azure Linux 3.0 was made generally available a few months ago on GitHub; you can see the full release notes here . Azure Linux 3.0 comes three years after Azure Linux 2.0 known as Mariner and includes several upgrades to major components. For example, the Linux Kernel has jumped from version 5.15 to 6.6, Containerd has jumped from 1.6.26 t