Microsoft is acquiring Deis, an open-source software company to provide better management tools for containers on the Azure cloud. Deis helps developers and operators build, deploy, manage, and scale their applications on top of containers within Kubernetes.
Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President, Cloud and Enterprise Group, Microsoft, wrote in a blog post, "Containers have been at the forefront of cloud transformation in recent years, and for good reason: Container technologies let organizations more easily build, deploy and move applications to and from the cloud. With this increase in agility and portability, containers are helping to make applications the new currency in the cloud. At Microsoft, we’ve seen explosive growth in both interest and deployment of containerized workloads on Azure, and we’re committed to ensuring Azure is the best place to run them."
"Paired with their cloud leadership and unambiguous support for open-source software, we are impressed by the breadth, depth and reach of Microsoft to help define, shape and build new cloud-native applications," wrote Deis CTO Gabe Monroy.