Helm 3: simpler to use, more secure to operate 

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Helm is the best way to find, share, and use software built for Kubernetes, and the eagerly anticipated Helm 3 alpha is now available for testing. Try it out, give feedback, and help the Helm community get it ready for you to depend upon. Why Helm? Many teams already rely on Helm 2 to deploy Read more

Extending Kubernetes in the open 

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Greetings and welcome to KubeCon EU in Barcelona! As always, it is wonderful to see the community come together to celebrate how Kubernetes has made cloud-native ubiquitous and changed the way that we build and manage our software. These conferences are fantastic because they represent an opportunity to meet with our users and learn about Read more

Ansible 2.8: What’s new for Azure 

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With the release of Ansible 2.8, Microsoft continues its commitment to ensure Azure provides a great experience for Ansible users. We have our biggest release to-date with new modules supporting a wide range of Azure services. Read below for more details about what’s new for Azure with Ansible 2.8. Enhanced support for Azure Virtual Machine Read more

88 years of free open source builds in 8 months with Azure Pipelines 

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Back in September 2018 we announced our Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery service, Azure Pipelines. Since that time it has seen phenomenal growth and adoption. Azure Pipelines is one of the services that form a comprehensive suite of collaboration services for development teams as part of Azure DevOps, the next version of Visual Studio Team Read more

What’s new in the latest release: Terraform Azure provider v1.24.0 and v1.25.0 

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There have already been two Terraform Azure provider releases in April and this blog post highlights the new and updated resources in these releases. Before talking about all of the great new functionality, I would like to start by thanking all of the external contributors to the AzureRM provider for these releases. Our support would Read more

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Brigade tutorial: Instant scaling on demand with serverless Kubernetes 

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Microservices built on Kubernetes are fast becoming one of the core scenarios where computing is done, and Kubernetes development and operations skills are therefore becoming a larger part of any cloud-native toolset. This article shows how to use Brigade, along with other tools from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), to build a Kubernetes-native application Read more

Trill 101: how to add temporal queries to your applications 

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Last December, we released Trill, an open source .NET library designed to process one trillion events a day. Trill provides a temporal query language enabling you to embed real-time analytics in your own application. In this blog post, we spend some time introducing how to get started using Trill. Trill’s query and data model A Read more

Announcing Brigade 1.0: Build a new kind of distributed application 

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Brendan Burns, one of the creators of Kubernetes (and the head of Azure Container Computing at Microsoft) often quips that, “Distributed computing is the new CS 101.” Instead of being considered an advanced topic in computer science, distributed computing is now a core requirement. It is with this in mind that we built Brigade, which Read more

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Windows containers now supported in Kubernetes 

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With the release of Kubernetes v1.14 today, Windows Server node support has officially graduated from beta to stable! This support enables developers and operators with Windows Server based applications to containerize them and benefit not only from the power of Kubernetes, but also the robust ecosystem surrounding it. The engineering that supported this release relied Read more

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What’s new in the latest release: Terraform Azure provider v1.23.0 

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There is a new release of the AzureRM provider fresh off of the presses. Version 1.23 has lots of new resources and data sources. If you want to get into the nitty-gritty details of the release, check out the Change Log for the provider within the GitHub repo. If you are looking for what’s coming Read more

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What I learned in a year of Postgres – with Azure Database for PostgreSQL 

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It’s our birthday! Azure Database for PostgreSQL became generally available exactly a year ago. From public preview to today, we’ve gone from mostly getting the “Postgres + Microsoft???” question to it not being as much of a surprise anymore. There’s an exciting road ahead, but an anniversary is a great time to look back and Read more

Setting up Jenkins X on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) 

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As adoption of containers grows, we are getting more asks around running Jenkins on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS.) To run Jenkins on a VM on Azure, you can use our solution template in Azure Marketplace. If you want to run Jenkins on AKS, I am happy to announce that you can now consider Jenkins X Read more

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