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Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.
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Tutorial: Canary Deployment for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

Canary deployment is a pattern that rolls out releases to a subset of users or servers. It deploys…

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GitHub acquisition furthers Microsoft’s commitment to open source 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

This week Microsoft announced an agreement to acquire GitHub, building on our partnership that has spanned the last…

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Open Source Weekly: Azure SDK for Go v15, Python in VS Code, and more 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

Check out the below recap of this week’s top open source related product announcements, popular docs, and demos…

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Open Source Weekly: database services for MySQL and PostgreSQL and more 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

Check out the below recap of this week’s top open source related product announcements, popular docs, and demos…

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Open Source Weekly: Azure Service Fabric goes open source, new Open Source Show, and more 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

Check out the below recap of this week’s open source related product announcements, popular docs, and demos from…

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Open Source Weekly: VSCode Python updates, Helm Summit learnings, and more 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

The February release of Visual Studio Code, our free and open source code editor, includes significant updates for…

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Microsoft at SCaLE 16x 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

The team is proud to support the sixteenth annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE 16x) at the Pasadena…

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Open Source Weekly: Updated Quantum SDK, deep learning for autonomous driving, and more 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

This week Microsoft released updates to our Quantum Development Kit, including support for macOS and Linux, additional open…

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Open Source Weekly: VS Code included in Anaconda, TypeScript 2.7 available 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

Check out the below recap of this week’s open source related community news, product announcements, popular docs, and…

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Open Source Weekly: New Go SDK and Azure Go Dev Center 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

Lots of good news for “gophers” this week, with a new Go SDK for Azure and updated documentation…

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Open Source Weekly: Container-native developer experiences and more 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

Check out the below recap of this week’s open source related community news, product announcements, popular docs, and…

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Open Source Weekly: new Ansible on Azure improvements and more 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

For fans of Ansible’s automation capabilities, the Azure team announced significant improvements to the Ansible on Azure experience,…