Vodafone has successfully tested containerisation of software on OpenRAN masts. It said this will give businesses greater control over the software they want to deploy on their hardware.
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Solidifying its software container stance, Microsoft has announced the "very first service of its kind in the cloud" called Azure Container Instances. A preview for Linux containers is now available.
Acting as a natural next step after joining the Linux Foundation last year, Microsoft has now become a member of a cloud-oriented sub-organization called the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
To solidify its cloud computing platform, Microsoft is acquiring software container firm Deis for an as of yet unknown amount of money. Deis is behind software like Helm, Workflow and Steward.