The “container as a service” lets you rapidly create and launch containerized applications, including from Kubernetes, without any overhead and with an easily scriptable set of commands Azure is ...

Microsoft’s acquisition of cloud technology company Deis, announced this week, illustrates the growing importance of containers for deploying software across a variety of platforms and devices, and ...

With the recent joining of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Microsoft has reiterated its interest for software containers. Specifically, looking towards the cloud implementation of this type of ...

The cloud changed IT forever. And then containers changed the cloud. And then Kubernetes changed containers. And then microservices usurped monoliths, and so it goes in the cloudscape. Microsoft's ...

At the heart of the modern cloud is a tension between two different philosophies: IaaS, where you build a virtual infrastructure on a fabric of host systems managed by a cloud provider, and PaaS, ...

Microsoft on Tuesday announced the "general availability" (GA) commercial release of Windows Server containers for use with the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The availability of production-grade ...

Barely a day passes without some news about containers and that speaks to how quickly this technology is being adopted by developers and the platforms and startups that serve them. Today it’s ...

Back in June, Microsoft announced that it would bring support for managing Docker containers with the help of Google’s open-source Kubernetes tool to Azure and today, it is making good on this promise ...

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