What’s new with Microsoft in open source and Kubernetes at Open Source Summit and KubeCon India
When building with AI on Azure Kubernetes Service, getting a model running is just the beginning.
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Introducing AMBROSIA: a new platform for reliable distributed applications without all the hassle
Building reliable and performant distributed programs that span cloud machines and devices is a challenging endeavor, but one that more and more developers are required to tackle. Foremost among the challenges is effectively handling restart, reconnection, and recovery to a valid state.
4 new Python/Django video tutorials for productive cloud development
Python is a great language for building web apps, and Django is one of the most popular frameworks. It lets developers create web apps fast, including modern RESTful APIs, with security and scalability in mind.
Phippy and friends join the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
We’re so excited to share that Phippy is headed to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)! Microsoft has donated Phippy and friends, along with our original book The Illustrated Children Guide to Kubernetes, to CNCF! What does this mean? It means that the characters you know and love are now free to use as you.
Achieve workload compliance and scale-to-zero with new Kubernetes open source projects
Over the past year or so the Azure upstream open source team has been investing heavily in making serverless Kubernetes a reality. We firmly believe that the Kubernetes operational model can be simplified by removing the burden of managing VMs and by making containers first class compute runtimes on the cloud.
Introducing CNAB: a cloud-agnostic format for packaging and running distributed applications
“The day of the distributed app is near.” That is the mantra we’ve been repeating for years. But with robust cloud offerings, the microservice pattern, orchestration platforms like Kubernetes, and the REST-ification of everything, we’re already there. It is the day of the distributed application. Almost.
Announcing the Service Fabric provider for Bosh
Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that helps you build, deploy and manage microservices in any public cloud or on-premises. The platform powers mission critical services within Microsoft and external workloads running both Windows and Linux.
Attention: MySQL & PostgreSQL Azure Terraform resource users
We want to give a heads-up to Azure customers who are using Terraform to provision and manage MySQL and/or PostgreSQL. As planned, the Azure data team will deprecate their ‘2017-04-30-preview’ API for both MySQL and PostgreSQL on December 1, 2018.
Tutorial: Using Azure DevOps to setup a CI/CD pipeline and deploy to Kubernetes
Note: for its 1-year anniversary, I refreshed this blog article in November 2019 to leverage new features with Helm 3 and Azure Pipelines (mainly YAML for both Build/CI and Release/CD), as well as to incorporate great feedback we’ve been receiving from our readers.
Join us for Pre-KubeCon Community Workshops
Headed into Seattle early for KubeCon North America? Join your open source friends for community workshops at the Seattle Microsoft Reactor on Monday, December 10th. We have an agenda packed with free hands-on learning with our open source Kubernetes tools, including Virtual Kubelet, Draft, Brigade, Helm, and more.
Tutorial: Terraforming your JAMstack on Azure with Gatsby, Azure Pipelines, and Git
This article will show how to build a blog (or any other static content) using a very popular JAMstack (GatsbyJS, GraphQL, Markdown) and host it on static website hosting for Azure Storage, which provides a cost effective and scalable solution for hosting static content and JavaScript code.
#Hacktoberfest 2018: Thank you!
It feels like we just announced our participation, but Hacktoberfest 2018 has officially come to a close. On behalf of my team and everyone at Microsoft, we thank each and every one of you for your contributions.
Microsoft and HashiCorp collaborate to build a better Terraform provider
For those who might be wondering what HashiCorp Terraform is, Terraform is a tool which enables workflows for operators to provision and manage Azure infrastructure using “Infrastructure as Code.” For a good overview, check out this introduction to Terraform.