{"id":20655,"date":"2016-02-18T18:14:34","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T18:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=245251"},"modified":"2016-02-18T18:14:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T18:14:34","slug":"microsoft-adds-redhat-linux-containers-and-oneops-options-to-azure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/microsoft-adds-redhat-linux-containers-and-oneops-options-to-azure\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft adds RedHat Linux, Containers and OneOps options to Azure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2014\/11\/Azure.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-207171\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2014\/11\/Azure-300x149.jpg\" alt=\"Azure\" width=\"300\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a>Microsoft has launched a trio of initiatives aimed at widening the options of its potential clients of its Azure cloud services.<\/p>\n<p>It made the announcements through the <a href=\"https:\/\/protect-us.mimecast.com\/s\/arG6BRu81m1zSD\">Azure Blog<\/a>, which promises the availability of new RedHat Enterprise Linux \u2018instances\u2019 (i.e. units of computing resources), a new application lifecycle manager, OneOps, and showcased a preview of an imminent Azure Container service.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Hat Enterprise Linux instances are available from the Azure Marketplace. According to the blog, 60 percent of the images available are now Linux-based. Microsoft claims its hybrid model can be running \u2018in minutes\u2019 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux images available on Azure Marketplace on a Pay-as-you-go model with hourly billing.<\/p>\n<p>Among the eligible products are Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Server, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server, Red Hat Gluster Storage and Red Hat OpenShift.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth Microsoft and I love Linux,\u201d said Corey Sanders, Azure\u2019s Director of Program Management. The new instances will help cloud users cater for on-demand workloads, development and testing and cloud bursting in a simple, easily quantifiable system, Sanders said. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 and 7.2 images are now live in all regions, except China and the US Government.<\/p>\n<p>The imminent Azure Container Service &#8211; currently available for preview &#8211; will build on previous Docker and Mesosphere initiatives to make it easier to provision clusters of Azure Virtual Machines onto containerized applications. The process will be a lot quicker since the machines will have been pre-configured with open source components, Sanders said.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders also disclosed that Microsoft has certified for the Azure Marketplace a group of Linux images created by Bitnami. Meanwhile, Microsoft\u2019s new OneOps offering on Azure, which gives clients the user of an open-source cloud and application lifecycle management platform, is a product of a collaboration with the WalmartLabs team (the IT offshoot of retail giant Walmart).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has launched a trio of initiatives aimed at widening the options of its potential clients of its Azure cloud services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[803,1989,51,1976,579],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-azure","category-enterprise-it","category-microsoft","category-news-analysis","category-red-hat-enterprise-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20656,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20655\/revisions\/20656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}