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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft is adding another new Azure service to its roster -- one that will enable users to create and deploy containers without having to hassle with managing underlying virtual machines. This new ...

With continued investment, apparently inexhaustible media attention, and real enthusiasm from developers, it would be easy to assume that San Francisco startup Docker invented the increasingly popular ...

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 ...

Docker and a growing number of application container virtualization technologies are not only taking the data center by storm, they’re spawning an ecosystem of IT solutions to help businesses monitor, ...

Move over, Docker, and make room for Microsoft in the emerging market for software containers. Microsoft has released a technical preview of the first publicly available version of Windows Server ...

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 CEO Satya Nadella, in the opening keynote at the Build 2017 conference, noted that DevOps and related technologies, such as containers and serverless computing, are driving major changes in ...