Hyperlight Nanvix: POSIX support for Hyperlight Micro-VMs
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF) Hyperlight project delivers faster, more secure, and smaller workload execution to the cloud-native ecosystem.
Microsoft Open Source Blog
Open Source Weekly: new Ansible on Azure improvements and more
For fans of Ansible’s automation capabilities, the Azure team announced significant improvements to the Ansible on Azure experience, including a new VS Code extension. Learn more about what’s new with Ansible on Azure, plus new docs, demos, and more, in this edition of the Open Source Weekly.
Applying compliance frameworks with Chef InSpec on Azure Government
In government, compliance and security are critical components of our job function. The current state of compliance frameworks are bulky and unwieldy for those inexperienced with OpenSCAP/XML. The Microsoft Azure Government cloud and Chef InSpec are designed to provide a common language for security, compliance, and automation teams to converge around.
OpenAI masters scale with Kubernetes on Azure
OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) and ensure AGI’s benefits are as widely and evenly distributed as possible. As a non-profit AI research company, they focus on long-term research, working on problems that require fundamental advances in AI capabilities.
Top questions about Terraform and Azure
Recently, I teamed up with HashiCorp’s Nic Jackson to deliver a high-level look at using HashiCorp’s Terraform with Microsoft Azure.
Announcing Mesosphere DC/OS Enterprise in the Azure Marketplace
Post by Mesosphere’s Phil Simpson and Microsoft’s Rob Bagby We are happy to announce the availability of Mesosphere DC/OS Enterprise in the Azure Marketplace.
Kashti: New dashboard and visualization tool for Kubernetes pipelines
At the Open Source Summit EU in Prague, a bit over a month ago, the team that brought you Helm and Draft announced Brigade, a scripting tool that helps developers and operations managers get their work done quickly by scripting together multiple tasks and executing them inside of containers in Kubernetes.
Connect with the Azure team at KubeCon (or watch the live stream!)
We’re in Austin this week for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, where all the CNCF projects will gather under one roof. Conference co-chairs, Microsoft’s Michelle Noorali and Google’s Kelsey Hightower, have put together a compelling program of emerging trends in microservices architectures and orchestration, container operations, distributed logging for containers, serverless, and more.
Join us for a Kubernetes on Azure AMA
Brendan Burns and Gabe Monroy from the Microsoft Azure Container team here, announcing that we’ll be hosting a Reddit AMA on AKS, Microsoft’s new Kubernetes Service this Friday, November 17 at 9 am PT on /r/Azure. We’d like to invite you to join us and give you all the details about the AMA.
Using s3cmd and other Amazon S3-compatible apps with Azure Blob Storage
Object storage is one of the core services offered by cloud platforms, as it allows developers to store any kind of unstructured data, conveniently and flexibly.
Open Source Weekly #4
Did you know that docs.microsoft.com is home to thousands of pages of documentation, from A to X (ASP.NET to Xamarin)? For technical documentation, API reference, code examples, quickstarts, and tutorials for your favorite Microsoft + Open Source scenarios, check out the inventory here.
Introducing Brigade: event-driven scripting for Kubernetes
The team that brought you Helm and Draft is announcing its newest open source Kubernetes-native tool, designed to help dev and ops get their work done quickly. It’s called Brigade and with it you can build any ordered workflow of containers in Kubernetes and trigger the workflow by listening for arbitrary events.
Open Source Weekly #2
This is our second edition of the Open Source Weekly, a roundup of recent open source related community news, product announcements, popular docs, and demos from around Microsoft. This will be far from an exhaustive list of everything open source going on around the company.
Node.js dev? Learn how to host your apps on Azure
On Wednesday, October 18 at 10am (PST), John Papa, Principal Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft, will be presenting a live webinar on deploying packaging and deploying Node.js apps and services to Azure App Service on Linux, manually and through a CI/CD system. Register now – it’s free.