At the heart of the modern cloud is a tension between two different philosophies: IaaS, where you build a virtual infrastructure on a fabric of host systems managed by a cloud provider, and PaaS, ...

The cloud changed IT forever. And then containers changed the cloud. And then Kubernetes changed containers. And then microservices usurped monoliths, and so it goes in the cloudscape. Microsoft's ...

Microsoft on Wednesday announced the general availability of a new containers tool for its Azure cloud platform that partners say should help accelerate the deployment of container technologies with ...

Microsoft has lately been pushing container development big-time for its Azure cloud. The company has published much new documentation for using containers in the past week or so across many different ...

One of the attractions of containers is the ability to spin them up nearly instantly when a cloud application needs more capacity. Much of the promise of the Microsoft Azure cloud similarly relates to ...