New hands-on labs: Create containerized apps with Kubernetes in Azure 

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We are excited to offer new hands-on labs based on the book Designing Distributed Systems, by Kubernetes project cofounder, Brendan Burns. The labs in this GitHub repository will help you build practical experience with the reusable patterns and components covered in the book. Follow step-by-step examples to create containerized and distributed apps in Kubernetes and Kubeless, using Azure Container Services (AKS) and other Read more

Countdown to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2018 

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The Azure Container Services team is headed to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018 next week in Copenhagen, Denmark. We’re honored to be Diamond sponsors this year, with a goal to help improve the ease of container-native app development.   Be sure to catch us at the Azure booth (located right outside the entrance to Hall C). Read more

5 reasons you should be doing container native development 

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Docker and Kubernetes are no longer the bleeding edge of technology; they’re the clear platform choice of today and tomorrow. Frequently, though, we developers are writing our applications the way we always have. We do all the coding on our host system (as we‘ve always done), and then we look at containers as a deployment Read more

New "Designing Distributed Systems" O'Reilly e-book, available for free download 

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Without established design patterns to guide them, developers have had to build distributed systems from scratch, and most of these systems are very unique. Today, the increasing use of containers has paved the way for core distributed system patterns and reusable containerized components. Application containers have grown significantly in popularity over the last few years, Read more

What we learned at the first Helm Summit 

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What a great inaugural Helm Summit! This was a momentous occasion for the community. What started as a hackathon project just under three years ago now is having its own community-driven summit. We had close to 200 people gather in an uncharacteristically snowy and cold Portland, Oregon talking about all things Helm. Over the 2 Read more

How startup Beco built its IoT cloud on Azure 

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Beco, a Boston-based startup, is changing the way commercial real estate is managed, all while making the experience of living and working in a commercially managed property a lot more convenient and fun. And they are doing it with the help of Microsoft Azure and Portworx, the cloud native storage layer designed for containerized workloads. Read more

Open Source Weekly: VS Code included in Anaconda, TypeScript 2.7 available 

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3-minute read + demos Check out the below recap of this week’s open source related community news, product announcements, popular docs, and demos from around Microsoft. Anything else you’d like to hear about? Let us know in the comments. Visual Studio Code now shipping with Anaconda: For everyone from enterprise programmers to data scientists, Python Read more

OpenAI masters scale with Kubernetes on Azure 

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OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) and ensure AGI’s benefits are as widely and evenly distributed as possible. As a non-profit AI research company, they focus on long-term research, working on problems that require fundamental advances in AI capabilities. OpenAI runs Kubernetes for their deep learning research because Kubernetes can provide Read more