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Tutorials and demos January 31, 2018 2 min read

Applying compliance frameworks with Chef InSpec on Azure Government

In government, compliance and security are critical components of our job function.

News February 21, 2018 6 min read

Ready, Set, Go lang: Brian Ketelsen explains Go’s fast growing popularity

Since its creation in 2009, the Go programming language has seen a growing global fan base of developers looking for a lightweight, open source language well-suited for today’s microservices architectures.

Tutorials and demos March 28, 2018 3 min read

Deploying a Java application on Azure Container Service and Cosmos DB

Introduction Bitnami was recently invited to speak at a few Azure Meetups and we took that as an opportunity to demonstrate something cool.

News April 12, 2018 10 min read

HashiCorp co-founder on simplifying infrastructure management

HashiCorp was founded by Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar in 2012 with the goal of revolutionizing datacenter management – application development, delivery, and maintenance.

Tutorials and demos April 26, 2018 4 min read

How to deploy a production-ready Node.js HA Stack on Azure

In our effort to bring the benefits of pre-packaged software to enterprise workloads in the cloud, Bitnami has recently started shipping a new generation of apps and infrastructure stacks in the Azure Marketplace that are designed for production use.

News May 12, 2018 6 min read

Why to love Python today and tomorrow: Interview with Nina Zakharenko

Python has been around for almost three decades. You can use is for web development.

News June 3, 2018 8 min read

Why JavaScript and Node.js are ruling the web: Interview with John Papa

JavaScript has emerged as one of the most popular programming languages in the world, reigning at #1 on GitHub in terms of pull requests in 2017.

News July 25, 2018 4 min read

Don’t be “pitchy” with your pitches

What comes to mind when you hear the word “meet-up”? Personally, I think of s’mores, tie-dying, PowerPoint karaoke, and giant squirrel costumes.

News December 11, 2018 4 min read

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.

News December 11, 2018 1 min read

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 […]

Tutorials and demos December 11, 2018 2 min read

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.

Tutorials and demos December 18, 2018 4 min read

What is a service mesh anyways?

The service mesh may sound complex, but at its heart, it’s a very simple idea: a set of network proxies that transparently run alongside microservices, implementing reliability, observability, and security features by measuring and manipulating inter-service (“east-west”) traffic.