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Tutorials and demos April 25, 2019 5 min read

Adding automated performance quality gates using Keptn Pitometer

This blog dives into monitoring-as-code ad adding automated performance quality gates into your software delivery pipelines.

News April 1, 2019 10 min read

Brigade tutorial: Instant scaling on demand with serverless Kubernetes

Microservices built on Kubernetes are fast becoming one of the core scenarios where computing is done, and Kubernetes development and operations skills are therefore becoming a larger part of any cloud-native toolset.

News March 28, 2019 5 min read

Announcing Brigade 1.0: Build a new kind of distributed application

Brendan Burns, one of the creators of Kubernetes (and the head of Azure Container Computing at Microsoft) often quips that, “Distributed computing is the new CS 101.

News March 25, 2019 2 min read

Windows containers now supported in Kubernetes

With the release of Kubernetes v1.14 today, Windows Server node support has officially graduated from beta to stable! This support enables developers and operators with Windows Server based applications to containerize them and benefit not only from the power of Kubernetes, but also the robust ecosystem surrounding it.

Project updates January 17, 2019 3 min read

Improved discovery experience for Microsoft containers on Docker Hub

Continuing with our approach to delivering a consistent and trustworthy acquisition experience for Microsoft container images, we are pleased to announce updates for the Microsoft Container Registry (MCR).

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.

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 […]

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 4, 2018 3 min read

Introducing CNAB: a cloud-agnostic format for packaging and running distributed applications

“The day of the distributed app is near.

Tutorials and demos November 27, 2018 8 min read

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.

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November 21, 2018 5 min read

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.

August 31, 2018 5 min read

Securing Kubernetes workloads in hybrid settings with Aporeto

Centralized visibility and security for applications distributed on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and private clouds Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) makes it simple to deploy a managed Kubernetes cluster in Azure.