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 ...

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 whole-heartedly embraced rapidly emerging container technology Wednesday by unveiling new container-centric offerings for its cloud and Windows server platforms, including a lightweight ...

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Microsoft released a preview of Windows Server Containers on the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The preview of Windows containers on AKS is a milestone of sorts because it means that IT pros can now ...

As far as container orchestration goes, Kubernetes is quickly becoming the de facto standard, even as Docker Swarm and Mesos/Mesosphere DC/OS continue to find their own niches. For the longest time, ...

When is a container serverless? That question might sound like troll bait for infrastructure geeks, but Microsoft’s Azure Container Instances, now generally available, is a blend of two prominent ...

Microsoft added container-focused support for its Azure cloud platform, with the latest move designed to ease container deployments. The computing giant launched a preview of its Azure Container ...

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 ...

When it comes to building distributed applications at scale, containers have become the logical deployment tool. They let you wrap up code at a service level, keeping your application separate from ...

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.