Demystifying Containers, Docker, and Kubernetes

https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2019/07/15/how-to-get-started-containers-docker-kubernetes/

by samaysharma • 7 years ago

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simonebrunozzi• 7 years ago

I would love to travel back in time to, say, 10 years ago, and show a print of this blog post to people.

Explaining containers would be the easy part.

Explaining Microsoft, the open source company, on the other hand...

QuickToBan• 7 years ago

Microsoft is not in the clear yet. They will be after Windows uses the Linux kernel, and Microsoft uses Rust. I'd give it ten more years and reevaluate.

neetle• 7 years ago

after Windows uses the Linux kernel

Or just open sources theirs, but yeah I generally agree.

and Microsoft uses Rust

Hold on. That'd be cool and all but they've already released 2-3 open source languages. Pretending that the use of the language de jour would be anywhere near the list of things that redeem MS feels shortsighted.

olyjohn• 7 years ago

Microsoft, the open source company.

I'm curious what makes you think they're an open source company. As far as I know, they have only open-sourced things that will attract developers back into their ecosystem. And only out of desperation that developers were leaving in droves. They only open-source things that benefit them. Have they ever open-sourced anything that benefited others before themselves?

tracker1• 7 years ago

Considering everything surrounding .Net Core alone, is as significant as most "open source" companies tend to release. They've commit a lot of resources into open source. I wouldn't call them an open source company, but a software & services company.

They've largely open-sourced what could be considered common place pieces with lots of competition, while keeping some secret sauce, and advancing their rental models (azure, o365, etc).

moomin• 7 years ago

I have bad news for you about every other open source company...

Seriously, I’m not saying they’re paragons, but who the heck is? (Profitable companies only, please.)

What is definitely the case, however, is that 10/20 years ago Microsoft would not even be writing that article, they’d have their own competitor, with weird lock-ins and missing features that was tightly integrated with some GUI panel in Visual Studio.

bdcravens• 7 years ago

It doesn’t hurt that they own what for many years most considered “THE open source company”

Can’t properly quantify (on mobile atm) but I’d venture to say they release as much or more than, say, Amazon

Demystifying Containers, Docker, and Kubernetes

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