Tested on Azure with an Arm64 instance: ubuntu@bionic-arm:~$ sudo apt-get install walinuxagent Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be upgraded: walinuxagent 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 17 not upgraded. Need to get 186 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports bionic-proposed/main arm64 walinuxagent arm64 2.2.45-0ubuntu1~18.04.2 [186 kB] Fetched 186 kB in 0s (3,529 kB/s) (Reading database ... 59468 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../walinuxagent_2.2.45-0ubuntu1~18.04.2_arm64.deb ... Unpacking walinuxagent (2.2.45-0ubuntu1~18.04.2) over (2.2.45-0ubuntu1~18.04.1ppa2) ... Setting up walinuxagent (2.2.45-0ubuntu1~18.04.2) ... update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-21) ... Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.130ubuntu3.13) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-1078-azure Unsupported platform on EFI system, doing nothing. ubuntu@bionic-arm:~$ dpkg -l walinuxagent Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-======================================================-================================-================================-================================================================================================================= ii walinuxagent 2.2.45-0ubuntu1~18.04.2 arm64 Windows Azure Linux Agent ubuntu@bionic-arm:~$ sudo systemctl status walinuxagent.service ● walinuxagent.service - Azure Linux Agent Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/walinuxagent.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Tue 2022-05-03 14:47:56 UTC; 51s ago Main PID: 27978 (python3) Tasks: 4 (limit: 4915) CGroup: /system.slice/walinuxagent.service ├─27978 /usr/bin/python3 -u /usr/sbin/waagent -daemon └─28149 python3 -u /usr/sbin/waagent -run-exthandlers May 03 14:47:57 bionic-arm python3[27978]: pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination May 03 14:47:57 bionic-arm python3[27978]: Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes) May 03 14:47:57 bionic-arm python3[27978]: pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination May 03 14:47:57 bionic-arm python3[27978]: 0 0 ACCEPT tcp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 168.63.129.16 owner UID match 0 May 03 14:47:57 bionic-arm python3[27978]: 0 0 DROP tcp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 168.63.129.16 ctstate INVALID,NEW May 03 14:47:57 bionic-arm python3[27978]: 2022/05/03 14:47:57.497717 INFO ExtHandler Created slice for walinuxagent extensions system-walinuxagent.extensions.slice May 03 14:47:57 bionic-arm python3[27978]: 2022/05/03 14:47:57.507169 INFO ExtHandler Wire server endpoint:168.63.129.16 May 03 14:47:57 bionic-arm python3[27978]: 2022/05/03 14:47:57.518215 INFO ExtHandler Wire server endpoint:168.63.129.16 May 03 14:47:57 bionic-arm python3[27978]: 2022/05/03 14:47:57.574883 INFO ExtHandler Wire server endpoint:168.63.129.16 May 03 14:47:57 bionic-arm python3[27978]: 2022/05/03 14:47:57.580448 INFO ExtHandler ProcessGoalState completed [incarnation 1; 62 ms]