How does "locate" and "updatedb" work in Azure Linux?

[jslhcl]

I cannot even find updatedb.conf in an Azure Linux VM

[zcobol]

Run locate --statistics:

zcobol@azure-vm1 [ ~ ]$ locate --statistics
Database /var/lib/locate/locatedb is in the GNU LOCATE02 format.
Database was last modified at 2024:08:28 21:28:11.538127517 +0000
Locate database size: 475712 bytes
All Filenames: 34456
File names have a cumulative length of 1877405 bytes.
Of those file names,

        3 contain whitespace,
        0 contain newline characters,
        and 0 contain characters with the high bit set.
Compression ratio 74.66% (higher is better)

So locate's database is at /var/lib/locate/locatedb

As for missing /etc/updatedb.conf that depends on what package is installed. I think it's part of mlocate or plocate and not findutils, the package included with Azure Linux.