Microsoft is opening up a gated preview for its Azure Container Service it built with Docker and Mesosphere, along with a public preview of its Azure Security Center.

Microsoft unveiled its Azure cloud Container Instances product as it pushed deeper integration with Linux-based container platforms.

If you wanted to play modern software development buzzword bingo, talking about Azure Container Instances (ACI) would surely help you tick a few boxes.

Microsoft released a preview of Windows Server Containers on the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

Microsoft has recently opened up access to Azure’s storage features from App Service-hosted containers, letting you treat them as a permanently connected network share.

The sample service highlights another benefit to Windows Server container support in Kubernetes on Azure, as you can use the Azure Container Registry to manage your container base images.

Microsoft is rolling out a preview of a dedicated Azure Container Service for Kubernetes, but will continue to offer its existing ACS offering which will support other container orchestrators, too.

As Microsoft stresses, these containers are first-class objects on Azure and get all of the same role-based access controls, billing tags and other features that you’d expect on the platform.

Docker isn't Microsoft's only container partner. A new pact with Sphere 3D aims to deliver Glassware 2.0 Windows containers and micro hypervisors to enable application portability.

Microsoft has made the preview of Azure Container Service (ACS) available to a broader set of developers. Originally announced at AzureCon in October 2015, the service went into private tech ...