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Oct 29

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4 min read

Flatcar accepted into CNCF at incubating level

By Brendan Burns, Corporate Vice President, Azure OSS and Cloud Native, Microsoft

“A secure community-owned cloud native operating system was one of the missing layers of the CNCF technology stack.…

Colleagues collaborating in the courtyard.

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Aug 28

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4 min read

Microsoft at Open Source Summit Europe 2024: Driving collaboration and innovation

By Henry Yan, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft

Connect with other open source enthusiasts at Open Source Summit Europe 2024 in Vienna, Austria.

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Apr 9

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4 min read

Join Microsoft at Open Source Summit North America 2024

By Henry Yan, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft

Join Microsoft at Open Source Summit North America 2024, taking place in Seattle, Washington from April 16 to…

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February 21, 2023

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4 min read

Introducing Bash for Beginners

By Gwyneth Peña-Siguenza, Cloud advocate

On Azure, more than 50 percent of virtual machine (VM) cores run on Linux. There is no better…

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February 22, 2022

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6 min read

Getting Linux based eBPF programs to run with eBPF for Windows

By Poorna Gaddehosur, Principal Software Engineer Lead, Microsoft

In our previous blog, we spoke about the progress we have made for the eBPF for Windows project.…

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February 7, 2022

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1 min read

Join us at the Build in the Open Happy Hour to connect and collaborate with Open Source enthusiasts

By Katie Fritsch, Senior Product Marketing Manager

Open source has forever changed software development for the better. It has allowed developers from around the world…

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June 21, 2021

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3 min read

How to migrate and modernize Linux workloads and open source databases to Azure

By Chhavi Nijhawan, Senior Product Marketing Manager

With extensive support for all major Linux distributions including Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, and managed platform-as-a-service…

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January 21, 2021

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9 min read

Deploying SUSE SAP HA Automation in Microsoft Azure

By Peter Schinagl, Cloud Solution Architect, SUSE

Why automation Maintaining a competitive advantage often depends on how quickly you can deliver new services. SAP applications…

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August 28, 2019

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1 min read

exFAT in the Linux kernel? Yes!

By John Gossman, Microsoft Distinguished Engineer & Linux Foundation Board Member

Microsoft ♥ Linux – we say that a lot, and we mean it! Today we’re pleased to announce…

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December 4, 2018

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1 min read

Announcing the Service Fabric provider for Bosh

By Sudhanva Huruli

Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that helps you build, deploy and manage microservices in any public…

October 23, 2018

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1 min read

Microsoft joins OIN: FAQs with Erich Andersen

By David Dennis, Director Product Marketing for Open Source on Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft recently joined the Open Invention Network (OIN), a community dedicated to protecting Linux and other open source…

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July 16, 2018

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5 min read

Celebrating OSCON’s 20th anniversary

By Ken Thompson, Focused on Open Source Software, Azure Resource Manager and DevOps on Azure, I'm responsible for helping customers succeed with DevOps on the Azure cloud, using the tools and practices they know and love. I work with communities and partners to better integrate solutions on Azure that involve third-party DevOps tools such as (but not limited to) Ansible, Chef, Docker, Eclipse, Gitlab, Jenkins, Packer, Spinnaker, and Terraform.

We’re in Portland this week for OSCON’s return to the City of Roses (or Beervana, depending on who…