In an interview, Canonical strategic leader Dustin Kirkland has revealed that Canonical, Ubuntu Linux's parent company, and Microsoft are working together on the LXD container hypervisor. LXD is an ...

Microsoft continues to put more of its focus into the container space, announcing updates to several platforms serving the market. Those include its Nano Server and Server Core products, and increased ...

The introduction of containers to Windows Server, Hyper-V and Microsoft Azure tied with Windows PowerShell automation paves the Microsoft path to DevOps and support for cross-platform modern apps. If ...

Microsoft doesn’t want to get left behind as containers quickly change how developers write and deploy applications. Last October, the company announced that it would support Docker containers with ...

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 ...

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The Azure container scheduling and orchestration service Microsoft first detailed in September is now available in public preview. Azure Container Service (ACS) allows for the creation and management ...

AUSTIN, Texas — At the Dockercon 2017 conference today Docker and Microsoft revealed they are working together to make Linux containers available on both Windows and the Azure cloud. Using a new Linux ...

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Hoping to build on the success of Docker-based Linux containers, Microsoft has developed a container technology to run on its Windows Server operating system. “We’re finding that interest in ...

Microsoft wants ACS to serve two markets. First is those who have already deployed containers at scale and want the least amount of hassle getting them to work in Azure. “Many companies are looking at ...