While Microsoft announce #Azure #Linux 4.0, releases are not publicly available to download as disk image or container image to pull. So instead, I have looked at the slightly older 3.0 release that is published at mcr.microsoft.com/azurelinux/base/core:3.0.
To best test this, I added this to my dotfiles targets and created a container image that can be used with my dev-command to set up a contained system for development purposes. This works, but points out some very clear differences and annoyances
Very minimal footprint; great from a security perspective and low on resources.
There is no dnf. Instead tdnf has to be used.