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 new Azure Container Instances (ACI) introduces a way to spin up workloads with the precise amount of CPU cores and memory needed on demand, use them for as little as a few seconds and ...

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 ...

Kubernetes, the Google-incubated open source container orchestration system, is quickly becoming the de facto standard for managing large container deployments. Microsoft launched a preview of support ...

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 ...

Microsoft today announced that the open source Kubernetes container management platform is now generally available to control clusters of containers in the Azure public cloud. Increasingly developers ...

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, ...

Announced last fall, Azure Modular Datacenter, or MDC, is basically an Azure datacenter in a shipping container, delivered to remote locations on a truck bed. It's running Azure Stack Hub (for now) ...

With Draft, which Monroy said was the first open-source program to emerge from the Azure Container group, developers can use two simple commands to begin hacking on container-based applications with ...