Blog post by Yousef Khalidi CVP, Azure Networking
At Microsoft, we’re focused on enabling our customers by supporting all the technologies they depend on, and collaborating across organizational and industrial boundaries to bring the best possible experience to the cloud. Microsoft embraces open source and partner ecosystems to scale our own development efforts and accelerate innovation. Products that include Visual Studio Code, .NET, and ASP.NET are being publicly developed on GitHub with contributions from both Microsoft and non-Microsoft developers. These products are targeting Windows, Mac, and Linux. Microsoft is a contributing member of open source communities, including the Apache Software Foundation, Linux Foundation, R Consortium, and Node.js Foundation.
For the Azure cloud platform, we serve customers on a vast worldwide scale, and they bring a wide range of technology needs with them. We must provide solutions with the unique flexibility to operate seamlessly across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud infrastructure, in an operating system–agnostic environment. Today, Linux virtual machines (VMs) comprise over 33 percent of all VMs running in Azure. Many partners in the Azure Marketplace run their workloads in Linux. Our HDInsight MapReduce service is built on Apache Hadoop and supports Spark, Hive, Apache Kafka, and Apache Storm. Meanwhile, the Azure Container Service (ACS) adopts open source container technologies like Docker, Apache Mesos, and Kubernetes to run both Linux and Windows containers. By doing this, ACS provides container orchestration that’s completely portable, while also being optimized for Azure.
Read about it on the Azure blog.