This is a minimal ready to use AlmaLinux 9 image automatically updated at launch with latest security patches making sure you are always running the most secure version available.

Mainly used as a common base system on top of which other appliances could be built and tested, it contains just enough packages to run within Azure, bring up a SSH Server and allow users to login.

Azure Linux Agent and cloud-init are included as well.

Root login is disabled and only the user account specified at launch time is allowed to connect, preferably using ssh public key authentication.

This image is built using Alma Linux 9 'Minimal Install' group of packages and a single 30 GiB OS disk. Both the root partition and the corresponding filesystem are automatically extended during boot if the OS disk size is bigger than the default one.

This image comes with SELinux enabled.

Accelerated Networking is supported as well.