Open Source Weekly: Lots of documentation for your favorite Microsoft + Open Source scenarios 

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4-minute read + demos This week we’re highlighting some of the content from docs.microsoft.com, our home to thousands of pages of documentation, from Apache to Zendesk.  For technical documentation, API reference, code examples, quickstarts, and tutorials on your favorite Microsoft + Open Source scenarios, check out the inventory here. Other docs you’d like to see? Read more

Open Source Weekly: added Java support in VSCode, the latest PowerShell Core release, and more 

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5-minute read + demos We’re back from a holiday hiatus and there’s lots to catch up on, including this week’s release of PowerShell Core 6.0, which is cross platform (Windows, macOS, and Linux), open source, and built for heterogeneous environments and the hybrid cloud. Learn more about what’s new in this PowerShell Core release, plus Read more

Top themes from KubeCon 2017 

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4-minute read time Last week, the Kubernetes community came together at KubeCon, with the goal of making it easier than ever to use containers to modernize existing applications and manage new applications to drive digital transformation. Here are some of the top themes from the event: Kubernetes growth is stellar. The conference has grown +2x Read more

Connect with the Azure team at KubeCon (or watch the live stream!) 

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We’re in Austin this week for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, where all the CNCF projects will gather under one roof. Conference co-chairs, Microsoft’s Michelle Noorali and Google’s Kelsey Hightower, have put together a compelling program of emerging trends in microservices architectures and orchestration, container operations, distributed logging for containers, serverless, and more. Drop by the Azure booth to learn more Read more

Join us for a Kubernetes on Azure AMA 

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Brendan Burns and Gabe Monroy from the Microsoft Azure Container team here, announcing that we’ll be hosting a Reddit AMA on AKS, Microsoft’s new Kubernetes Service this Friday, November 17 at 9 am PT on /r/Azure. We’d like to invite you to join us and give you all the details about the AMA. Why are Read more

Open Source Weekly #5 

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The October release of Visual Studio Code, our free and open source code editor, includes support for multi-root workspaces and many other significant updates and popular outstanding feature requests. Learn more about what’s new in this release, plus new technical documentation and more, in this edition of the Open Source Weekly. Here are some recent Read more

Open Source Weekly #3 

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From announcing a new managed Kubernetes service to hosting Azure OpenDev with some of our favorite open source community leaders, it’s been a busy week. 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 Read more

Introducing Brigade: event-driven scripting for Kubernetes 

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The team that brought you Helm and Draft is announcing its newest open source Kubernetes-native tool, designed to help dev and ops get their work done quickly. It’s called Brigade and with it you can build any ordered workflow of containers in Kubernetes and trigger the workflow by listening for arbitrary events. Kubernetes is a Read more

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Open Source Weekly #2 

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This  is our second edition of the Open Source Weekly, a roundup of recent open source related community news, product announcements, popular docs, and demos from around Microsoft. This will be far from an exhaustive list of everything open source going on around the company. After all, we have more than 16,000 people across Microsoft Read more