Today, you can deploy SQL Server on Ubuntu based Azure virtual machines (VMs) in one of the three ways:
Option 1: Use the pre-configured Microsoft SQL Server on Ubuntu Pro Azure marketplace image for the Azure virtual machine(VM) creation. Option 2: Deploy a Azure VM based on an Ubuntu Pro image and then manually install and configure the SQL Server. Option 3: Deploy an Ubuntu LTS image based Azure VM, then manually install and configure SQL Server.
In this blog, I’d like to spend some time discussing option 1, which is Microsoft SQL Server on Ubuntu Pro