Recently appointed Azure CTO Mark Russinovich spells out Microsoft's espousal of the container cause on its cloud computing platform and his reservations about Docker security.

Microsoft is among the many cloud and Linux vendors supporting the first release of the open-source Docker application-deployment engine.

"Available on GitHub as Open Source, the Batch Shipyard toolkit enables easy deployment of batch-style Dockerized workloads to Azure Batch compute pools. Azure Batch enables you to run parallel jobs ...

Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich demonstrated the new Docker Datacenter for the Azure public cloud and Azure Stack, and also gave the first public demonstration of SQL Server for Linux during ...

Azure developers embracing containers, meanwhile, were shown some love in the new AKS service that just hit GA in a blog post authored by Brendan Burns, Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft Azure, who ...

Docker Volume Plugin for Azure File Storage is currently only supported on hosts running Ubuntu Server 14.04 and above, with the source code and documentation now available on GitHub.

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 ...

The news comes after Microsoft launched support for Linux-based Docker containers on Azure earlier this year. The company has been working to make a number of key cloud service partnerships over ...