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CTOnews.com, Sept. 1, Microsoft today announced a major change in its Xbox store infrastructure, covering consoles, PC, mobile devices, and Xbox cloud games.

Microsoft said on its blog that it is migrating the Xbox store infrastructure from Azure Service Fabric to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). As part of this process, it chose Mariner, the Linux distribution, as the host operating system. The move was led by Microsoft's Creator platform and experience (CPE) group.

CTOnews.com learned that CBL-Mariner is an open source Linux distribution developed by Microsoft to support a variety of cloud services on Azure. It is the underlying container image of Azure services and provides support for graphical components such as Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) and Azure Sphere OS.

Microsoft said it chose Mariner because its roadmap focuses on reducing its footprint and improving security and compliance.

Brian Wentz, chief software engineer at CPE, also pointed out:

CPE is in the final stages of migrating from Service Fabric to AKS, and as part of the transition, we chose to migrate to Mariner as our host operating system. In less than a month, we expanded to 12k cores on Mariner. Once the transition is complete, Mariner will be the only Linux distribution that supports CPE.

Looking ahead, we also hope to reduce the cost of container-level services and plan to migrate to the Mariner basic container image in the next 6 months. In the long run, we also plan to use Mariner distroless containers.

Microsoft has previously migrated its PlayFab game back-end service to Mariner, which supports more than 2.5 billion player accounts and 5000 games. The success of the PlayFab migration has given the Xbox store the strength to move, and officials expect to move all Microsoft game services to Mariner by the end of the year.

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