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, ...

With containers taking over the Azure cloud-native development space, the first thing organizations new to the scene need to do is understand how they work. The second thing to do is think about how ...

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 ...

Azure Container Instances (ACI), which let you create Linux and Windows containers without having to manage the virtual machines they run on, are now generally available. ACI brings serverless ...

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 ...