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Today, I am excited to announce that we are joining Docker, Inc. in announcing the beta releases of Docker Machine and Docker Swarm on Azure and Docker Machine support on Hyper-V...For step-by-step instructions to manage your Docker hosts with Docker Swarm on Azure VMs, please see our Docker Swarm on Azure User Guide...Docker Compose Docker Compose is really cool simplification to modeling Docker multi-container solutions by using a declarative YAML file...

Today, as Microsoft and Docker, Inc. we are making the Docker command line interface available on Windows starting with the Docker 1.6 release...Windows Server Container Images will also be available in the Docker Hub alongside the 45,000 and growing Docker images for Linux already available...Special thanks to Jessica Frazelle, Arnaud Porterie and Tibor Vass from Docker, Sachin Joshi and Brendan Dixon from Microsoft, Tianon from Docker community and many other Docker contributors who helped bring the Docker Client to Windows...

Docker Swarm is a native clustering tool for Docker which turns multiple Docker engines into a cluster and makes that a cluster by making it look like a single Docker engine...In this sense, Docker Swarm is a very practical and easy solution to the container orchestration problem and you can deploy containers to the cluster with the docker command-line tool which you already might be familiar with...The template also saves you from the trouble of managing the Docker certificates by not using TLS and letting you access the Docker Swarm endpoint by establishing a SSH tunnel...

Today, Microsoft and Docker Inc. are jointly announcing we are bringing the Windows Server ecosystem to the Docker community, through 1) investments in the next wave of Windows Server, 2) open-source development of the Docker Engine for Windows Server, 3) Azure support for the Docker Open Orchestration APIs and 4) federation of Docker Hub images in...This will enable users to deploy Docker applications to Azure directly from the Docker client...In summary, today we announced a partnership with Docker Inc. to bring Windows Server to the Docker ecosystem and improve Azure’s support for the Docker Engine and Orchestration APIs and to integrate Docker Hub with the Azure Gallery and Management Portal...

Last month, we announced support for deploying Docker on Azure Virtual Machines, using our extension technology to enable the high-density power of Docker as quickly and easily as possible...Continuing our commitment to give customers more open and community-driven choices, today we are announcing plans to work with Google and Docker to bring support for both Kubernetes and libswarm open source projects on the Microsoft Azure...Announced in June, Kubernetes is a declarative container management solution supporting orchestration and scheduling of Docker containers, originally built on top of Google Compute Engine...

To enable developers that use Linux Docker containers with the exact same experience on Windows Server, we also announced our partnership with Docker to extend the Docker API and toolset to support Windows Server Containers. For us, this was an opportunity to...We are developing this in the open Docker GitHub repository. In Windows Server 2016, we will be releasing two flavors of containers, both of which will be deployable using Docker APIs and the Docker client: Windows Server Containers and Hyper-V Containers...Docker Swarm manages and organizes Docker containers across multiple hosts via the same API used by a single Docker host. Swarm and Compose come together to offer a complete orchestration technology built by Docker...

For enterprises, Visual Studio Online also provides build tasks to deploy to a Docker Trusted Registry to provide a private repository of Docker images. This support will be available in the coming months...">Also, for the first time, we showcased how you can use the Azure Marketplace experience to deploy a single or a multi-container application sourced from an image from Docker Hub using Docker Compose (screen shot below)...When we release Docker containers, Docker Swarm, and Docker Compose support on Windows Server, we will bring together customers and community to off...

You can also deploy multi-container applications to Container Instances that are defined in a Docker Compose file using docker compose up...Once the new Container Instances context is created it can be used to target Container Instances with many of the standard Docker commands you likely already use; like docker run, docker ps, and docker rm...Running a simple docker run command will start a container in Container Instances using the image that is stored in a registry like Docker Hub or Azure Container Registry. You can run other common Docker commands to inspect, attach-to, and view logs from the running container...

Windows Server Containers are powered by the same Docker toolchain, so you use the same Docker tooling to build and run those containers as you do your Linux containers and with the tooling you choose including Eclipse, Visual Studio, Jenkins, and Visual Studio Team Service...Linux parity in Docker on Tuesday, April 18th from 2:00pm-2:40pm There will also be hands-on labs for you to experience Docker on Windows...We’ll provision a Docker environment for you in Azure, and provide self-paced learning guides...

Today, at DockerCon, we will have a demonstration showing the deployment of Docker directly into an Azure Linux Virtual Machine using the Azure extension technology...The Azure Docker support goes one step further and integrates with our cross-platform CLI toolset, built by the Microsoft Open Technologies team, allowing a simple “azure vm docker create” command to launch the magic of Docker on Linux on Azure. Coolness...I hope you will love Docker support! You can find more details about this announcement in this blog post. See ya around, Corey...