If you run workloads in Azure, and you let their default agent run on your images, I'd highly consider you take 30 minutes to skim around this repo: `Azure/walinuxagent`.
Go read through some issues, look at some closed ones, try and skim through the source code. Realize there's two enormous python scripts in the repo, one with "2.0" tacked on the end.
If Azure is somehow not just rebooting/killing VMs that lack the magic handshake, I'd highly recommend dropping the agent.
After all of this news, and what is on display in walinuxagent, do you really want some network-connected agent listening, who's often-most-touted feature is being a persistent backdoor?
"It's tough being an Azure fan." Eh, it's a nice cyclic problem. They have no depth of caring about engineering (hence why Azure is littered with services that are impossible to fully utilize because their own engineers don't understand the how/why of what they're building half the time). Which in turn, along with crap career advancement and constant un-appreciated, unmitigated live-service burnout, is why they can't retain actual Linux talent to save their fucking lives.
Go read through some issues, look at some closed ones, try and skim through the source code. Realize there's two enormous python scripts in the repo, one with "2.0" tacked on the end.
If Azure is somehow not just rebooting/killing VMs that lack the magic handshake, I'd highly recommend dropping the agent.
After all of this news, and what is on display in walinuxagent, do you really want some network-connected agent listening, who's often-most-touted feature is being a persistent backdoor?
"It's tough being an Azure fan." Eh, it's a nice cyclic problem. They have no depth of caring about engineering (hence why Azure is littered with services that are impossible to fully utilize because their own engineers don't understand the how/why of what they're building half the time). Which in turn, along with crap career advancement and constant un-appreciated, unmitigated live-service burnout, is why they can't retain actual Linux talent to save their fucking lives.