Kubernetes at scale with GitOps and Cluster API 

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As the requirements and software surrounding Kubernetes clusters grow along with the required number of clusters, the administrative overhead becomes overwhelming and unsustainable without an appropriate architecture and supportive tooling. Read more

Empowering you to achieve more with open source on Azure 

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At Microsoft, we are taking cloud architecture to the next level and our open cloud reduces the friction for developers to get applications up and running. We give autonomy and control to the developers to flexibly choose their infrastructure and give them options to build, migrate, and deploy across multiple environments on-premises, in the cloud, Read more

Introducing the Cluster API Provider for Azure (CAPZ) for Kubernetes cluster management 

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Managing Kubernetes clusters is hard. Managing Kubernetes clusters at scale across a variety of infrastructures is—well—even harder. The Kubernetes community project Cluster API (CAPI) enables users to manage fleets of clusters across multiple infrastructure providers. The Cluster API Provider for Azure (CAPZ) is the solution for users who need to manage Kubernetes clusters on Azure Read more

.NET for Apache Spark hits v1.0 

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About two years ago, we heard an increasing demand from the .NET community for an easier way to build big data applications with .NET, outside of needing to learn Scala or Python. Thus, in a collaboration between Azure Data and .NET teams, we started the .NET for Apache® Spark™ open source project. Today, we are Read more

How to optimize Azure Machine Learning for IoT production usage 

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Introduction Over the last few years IoT devices, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI) have become very popular and now a lot of companies are moving forward to use them in production. All cloud providers, including Microsoft Azure, provide services on how to deploy developed ML algorithms to edge devices. The main concern of Read more

How to deploy Elastic Cloud on Microsoft Azure 

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From startups to the global 2000, Elastic powers search solutions for thousands of companies worldwide to find documents, monitor infrastructure, protect against security threats, and more. With Elastic Cloud managed services on Azure, you have the power of Elastic Enterprise Search, Elastic Observability, and Elastic Security. You can quickly and easily deploy as a managed Read more

Announcing Dapr integration in Azure API Management Service 

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Dapr integration in the Azure API Management (APIM) service is now available. This new capability enables operations teams to directly expose Dapr microservices as APIs and make those APIs discoverable and easily consumable by developers with proper controls across multiple Dapr deployments—whether in the cloud, on-premises, or on the edge. Since its initial release last Read more

Announcing the Terraform AzureRM 2.0 Provider release 

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On behalf of HashiCorp and Microsoft, I am excited to announce the release of version 2.0 of the Azure Provider for Terraform. Version 2.0 is a major version upgrade that incorporates a number of features that customers have been asking for, as well as a whole host of smaller but impactful changes. Our goal in Read more

Data Accelerator for Apache Spark adds Azure Databricks support and more 

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Earlier this year, we released Data Accelerator for Apache Spark as open source to simplify working with streaming big data for business insight discovery. Data Accelerator is tailored to help you get started quickly, whether you’re new to big data, writing complex processing in SQL, or working with custom Scala or Azure functions. After years Read more

Microsoft joins partners and the Linux Foundation to create Confidential Computing Consortium 

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Microsoft has invested in confidential computing for many years, so I’m excited to announce that Microsoft will join industry partners to create the Confidential Computing Consortium, a new organization that will be hosted at The Linux Foundation. The Confidential Computing Consortium will be dedicated to defining and accelerating the adoption of confidential computing. Confidential computing Read more

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Microsoft joins the Hyperledger community 

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Today we are announcing that we’ve joined Hyperledger, a Linux Foundation community that focuses on open source implementations of the emerging specifications and standards for blockchain and distributed ledgers. Over the past few years, blockchain has shown significant promise across many industries to manage complex workflows and logistics. Enterprises and startups have gone beyond the Read more