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’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 ...

Microsoft's cloud container service now comes with support for Kubernetes, and in time will become part of Azure's infrastructure set to be open-sourced ...

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 ...

Microsoft on Wednesday announced the 'general availability' of Azure Container Instances, a serverless runtime that's designed to make it easier for developers to spin up containers on Microsoft's ...

Azure has done the same, using the open source Docker Registry 2.0 as the basis for its own container registry, compliant with Open Container Initiative.

Deploying a container only takes a single command with a few basic parameters and you can pull containers from public repositories like the Docker Hub or our private repositories on Azure.

Microsoft's Azure-in-a-shipping-container offering could figure prominently in its cyber-sovereignty and 'special clouds' efforts in the year to come.

Solidifying its software container stance, Microsoft has announced the "very first service of its kind in the cloud" called Azure Container Instances. A preview for Linux containers is now available.

Reminiscent of early Azure data centre pods, the containers contain a prebuilt set of Azure Stack Hub systems along with all the supporting infrastructure.