Microsoft and Docker recently announced the expansion of their partnership, bringing Docker to Windows Server and Azure.
There are a number of use cases that make Docker excited and valuable to organizations
Microsoft is executing on its vision of continually bringing the best of Microsoft to other platforms (not just Windows). Today is an important day in that journey. Several announcements were made today at Microsoft Connect () related to developer tools / platform. Here is a brief summary:
Keeping the topic of Open Source going…I thought I’d share a bit of information on Microsoft’s partnership with Chef with Azure.
About 18 months ago, Opscode announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft Azure to support rich Chef integration:
Maximizing the power of public cloud platforms is best accomplished through the use of a dynamic, consistent automation engine. With Windows Azure and Opscode Chef, organizations can now make the most of all Windows Azure offers for Microsoft and Linux-based environments alike, delivering maximum flexibility and ease of use in bringing ideas to market and adapting to business change.
-Christopher Brown, CTO, Opscode
Below is a video of Ross Gardler (Senior Technical Evangelist from Microsoft Open Tech) doing a demo of building cloud resources in Azure with Chef cookbooks. Skip to 7:27
Wanted to share some updates on the work Microsoft is doing in the open source space.
[dropcap]B[/dropcap]ack in January, we announced a contribution to the Open Compute Project. Microsoft is sharing what they call their ‘Microsoft cloud server specification‘: the designs for the most advanced server hardware in Microsoft datacenters delivering global cloud services like Windows Azure, Office 365, Bing and others.
We are excited to participate in the OCP community and share our cloud innovation with the industry in order to foster more efficient datacenters and the adoption of cloud computing.
more details on that can be found here.
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]nother interesting set of investments in open source comes from the Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. team. It’s a group of people building bridges between Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies…powering interoperability through open standards and open source.
Here are some of the projects they are working:
Sharing this blog post with details around Microsoft’s participation in Open Compute Project.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2014/01/27/microsoft-contributes-cloud-server-designs-to-the-open-compute-project.aspx