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2026 11
- Introducing Scope: Open-source evaluation for AI coding agents
- From alerts to answers: The future of PostgreSQL operations is intelligent
- Open-source databases in the AI era: Meet Microsoft at All Things Open
- From standards to software: Microsoft’s ongoing work on OpenAPI and developer tooling
- Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
- What’s new with Microsoft in open source and Kubernetes at Open Source Summit and KubeCon India
- Introducing STATE-Bench: A benchmark for AI agent memory
- Conductor: Deterministic orchestration for multi-agent AI workflows
- PostgreSQL enters its AI era: Run PostgreSQL like a pro in the era of AI and rapid growth
- Introducing the Agent Governance Toolkit: Open-source runtime security for AI agents
- Hyperlight Nanvix: POSIX support for Hyperlight Micro-VMs
2025 16
- What’s new with Microsoft in open-source and Kubernetes at KubeCon North America 2025
- DocumentDB goes cloud-native: Introducing the DocumentDB Kubernetes Operator
- 9 open-source projects the GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Code teams are sponsoring—and why they matter
- Marking Drasi’s first anniversary: introducing GQL support for Continuous Queries
- Introducing Wassette: WebAssembly-based tools for AI agents
- Hyperlight: Debugging hardware-protected guests
- Optimizing memory usage in large language models fine-tuning with KAITO: Best practices from Phi-3
- Expanding platform engineering capabilities with Radius Resource Types
- Drasi accepted into CNCF sandbox for change-driven solutions
- Microsoft and F5 join forces on OpenTelemetry with Apache Arrow in Rust
- JWT it like it’s hot: A practical guide for Kubernetes Structured Authentication
- What’s new with Microsoft in open-source and Kubernetes at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025
- Hyperlight Wasm: Fast, secure, and OS-free
- Build a Hyperlight C guest to securely execute JavaScript
- Hyperlight: Achieving 0.0009-second micro-VM execution time
- DocumentDB: Open-Source Announcement
2024 14
- What’s new with Microsoft in open-source and Kubernetes at KubeCon North America 2024
- Introducing Hyperlight: Virtual machine-based security for functions at scale
- Flatcar accepted into CNCF at incubating level
- Detect and react intelligently to changes in data with Drasi
- Distributing WebAssembly components using OCI registries
- Project Copacetic: Quick and efficient container image patching
- Microsoft at Open Source Summit Europe 2024: Driving collaboration and innovation
- 5 things we learned from sponsoring a sampling of our open source dependencies
- Open sourcing MS-DOS 4.0
- Microsoft Open Source Programs Office—Tuning the answers to Open Source questions
- Join Microsoft at Open Source Summit North America 2024
- See how Azure is empowering cloud-native development and AI innovation with Kubernetes at KubeCon Europe 2024
- ONNX Runtime Web unleashes generative AI in the browser using WebGPU
- On-Device Training: Training a model in browser
2023 21
- Exploring DragGAN implementation using ONNX Runtime
- Microsoft welcomes you to KubeCon Chicago
- Enabling developer collaboration with Radius
- Recommenders joins LF AI & Data as new Sandbox project
- Accelerating over 130,000 Hugging Face models with ONNX Runtime
- Boosting performance in ONNX Runtime with Intel® AMX for 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Processors
- Scaling workloads on Microsoft Azure with Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling
- Introducing ONNX Script: Authoring ONNX with the ease of Python
- Connect fluid dynamics, machine learning, and virtual reality with ONNX Runtime
- On-Device Training with ONNX Runtime: A deep dive
- Olive: A user-friendly toolchain for hardware-aware model optimization
- Automate optimization techniques for transformer models
- On-Device Training: Efficient training on the edge with ONNX Runtime
- Kubernetes at scale with GitOps and Cluster API
- Join Microsoft at KubeCon and CloudNativeCon Europe 2023
- High-performance deep learning in Oracle Cloud with ONNX Runtime
- Discover the latest innovations at Azure Open Source Day 2023
- Announcing the availability of Feathr 1.0
- Introducing Bash for Beginners
- Performant on-device inferencing with ONNX Runtime
- Improve BERT inference speed by combining the power of Optimum, OpenVINO™, ONNX Runtime, and Azure
2022 13
- Faster inference for PyTorch models with OpenVINO Integration with Torch-ORT
- Towards debuggability and secure deployments of eBPF programs on Windows
- Making culture count for Open Source sustainability—Celebrating FOSS Fund 25
- Hugging Face Transformers now enabled in Apache OpenNLP by ONNX Runtime
- Feathr feature store joins LF AI & Data Foundation
- Live demos of machine learning models with ONNX and Hugging Face Spaces
- Optimizing and deploying transformer INT8 inference with ONNX Runtime-TensorRT on NVIDIA GPUs
- Scaling-up PyTorch inference: Serving billions of daily NLP inferences with ONNX Runtime
- Supporting efficient large model training on AMD Instinct™ GPUs with DeepSpeed
- Getting Linux based eBPF programs to run with eBPF for Windows
- Join us at the Build in the Open Happy Hour to connect and collaborate with Open Source enthusiasts
- Announcing Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) workload identity for Kubernetes
- Microsoft’s OSPO year in review—what we’ve learned
2021 30
- Add AI to mobile applications with Xamarin and ONNX Runtime
- Ratify container supply chain in Kubernetes
- Progress on making eBPF work on Windows
- KubeCon North America 2021: Kubernetes on Azure and open source updates
- Announcing: Azure credits for open source projects
- ONNX Runtime Web—running your machine learning model in browser
- Introducing Distributed Data Parallel support on PyTorch Windows
- Microsoft expands support with The Eclipse Foundation
- Accelerate PyTorch training with torch-ort
- ONNX Runtime release 1.8.1 previews support for accelerated training on AMD GPUs with the AMD ROCm™ Open Software Platform
- Simple steps to create scalable processes to deploy ML models as microservices
- Journey to optimize large scale transformer model inference with ONNX Runtime
- How to migrate and modernize Linux workloads and open source databases to Azure
- Empowering you to achieve more with open source on Azure
- ONNX Runtime 1.8: mobile, web, and accelerated training
- Enabling Local Tunnel Debugging with the Kubernetes extension for VS Code
- Delivering reliable production experiences with PyTorch Enterprise on Microsoft Azure
- Making eBPF work on Windows
- Prioritizing inclusion—our commitment to building healthy open source communities
- Announcing preview of Microsoft build of OpenJDK for Java 11
- Optimizing BERT model for Intel CPU Cores using ONNX runtime default execution provider
- Microsoft Open Source success story—Babylon
- Create privacy-preserving synthetic data for machine learning with SmartNoise
- Enabling responsible AI development with new open source capabilities
- The community effort that delivered Dapr v1.0
- Microsoft joins Rust Foundation
- Maintainers Spotlight: How Kent C. Dodds pays it forward through open source
- Deploying SUSE SAP HA Automation in Microsoft Azure
- 4 open source lessons for 2021
- How to monitor your Azure infrastructure with Filebeat and Elastic Observability
2020 48
- Accelerate and simplify Scikit-learn model inference with ONNX Runtime
- Introducing the Cluster API Provider for Azure (CAPZ) for Kubernetes cluster management
- ONNX Runtime scenario highlight: Vespa.ai integration
- Adding RoBERTa NLP to the ONNX model zoo for natural language predictions
- Cloudera Data Platform’s integration with Azure delivers enterprise security and governance
- .NET for Apache Spark hits v1.0
- How to optimize Azure Machine Learning for IoT production usage
- How to deploy Elastic Cloud on Microsoft Azure
- Announcing Akri, an open source project for building a connected edge with Kubernetes
- Introducing ONNX Runtime mobile – a reduced size, high performance package for edge devices
- Participate in the Java EE cloud migration patterns survey
- A new video series for beginners to learn JavaScript
- Accelerate traditional machine learning models on GPU with ONNX Runtime
- J4K: an all-star Java and Kubernetes speaker line-up in one conference
- Calico for Windows goes open source
- Announcing Dapr integration in Azure API Management Service
- CloudSkew makes it easy to sketch cloud architecture diagrams
- Open-sourcing TensorFlow with DirectML
- GPT-2 fine-tuning with ONNX Runtime – a 34% speedup in training time
- Securing Open Liberty applications with Azure Active Directory via OpenID Connect
- Microsoft joins Open Source Security Foundation
- VS Code Docker extension can now run containers in Azure Container Instances
- Extreme programming meets systematic testing using Coyote
- Announcing Azure Functions extension for Dapr
- Hyperspace, an indexing subsystem for Apache Spark™, is now open source
- Announcing Azure Service Operator for Kubernetes
- What’s new in SandDance 3
- See you at camp…virtual Cloud Native Camp that is!
- Announcing the Azure DevOps Provider for Terraform
- The Open Application Model reaches a new milestone with v1Alpha2 and Crossplane
- Announcing cloud-native workflows using Dapr and Logic Apps
- Announcing accelerated training with ONNX Runtime—train models up to 45% faster
- Introducing the new differential privacy platform from Microsoft and Harvard’s OpenDP
- Scaling Kubernetes: Intro to Kubernetes-based event-driven autoscaling (KEDA)
- Accelerating open source and hardware innovation to meet data and security demands
- Helm, the package manager for Kubernetes, now a CNCF graduated project
- How Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) has grown since its announcement
- Announcing azcollection, the Ansible collection for Azure
- Join the Kubernetes Release Team: learn from and give back to the community
- WebAssembly meets Kubernetes with Krustlet
- Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling (KEDA) joins the CNCF as a sandbox project
- Kubernetes v1.18 advances Windows container support
- Is there a Helm and Operators showdown?
- Accessibility Insights for Android is here
- Announcing the Terraform AzureRM 2.0 Provider release
- Microsoft open sources breakthrough optimizations for transformer inference on GPU and CPU
- Announcing Applied Cloud Stories
- FHIR Subscriptions and state changes
2019 69
- Microsoft announces OpenChain 2.0 conformance for open source
- W3C Trace Context specification reaches Proposed Recommendation status
- Boosting interoperability in the cloud with CloudEvents v1.0 support on Azure Event Grid
- Data Accelerator for Apache Spark adds Azure Databricks support and more
- Empowering cloud-native developers on Kubernetes anywhere
- Kubernetes-based event-driven autoscaling (KEDA) 1.0 release
- In-cluster CNAB management with Brigade
- ONNX joins Linux Foundation
- Helm 3: Simpler and more secure
- Ansible 2.9: Azure shared image galleries, Azure collection, and new modules
- Announcing ONNX Runtime 1.0
- Tutorial: Calico Network Policies with Azure Kubernetes Service
- Announcing the Open Application Model (OAM), an open standard for developing and operating applications on Kubernetes and other platforms
- Announcing Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr), an open source project to make it easier for every developer to build microservice applications
- Microsoft open sources SandDance, a visual data exploration tool
- Discover, develop, and deploy smart contracts faster with Blockchain Dev Kit updates
- Unboxing new Microsoft Azure solutions at SpringOne Platform 2019
- A new video series for beginners to learn Python programming
- Bringing container magic to cloud-native applications
- exFAT in the Linux kernel? Yes!
- Now available: ONNX Runtime 0.5 with support for edge hardware acceleration
- Microsoft joins partners and the Linux Foundation to create Confidential Computing Consortium
- Trill 103: Ingress, Egress, and Trill’s notion of time
- DevSecOps in Kubernetes
- Demystifying containers, Docker, and Kubernetes
- AzureR now available: Create, manage, and monitor Azure services with R
- Migrating to HashiCorp Terraform 0.12 on Microsoft Azure
- Run, operate, and scale modern applications with Redis Enterprise on Microsoft Azure
- Microsoft joins the Hyperledger community
- Five steps to add automated performance quality gates to Azure DevOps pipelines
- How to use Trill for impression feedback (part 2)
- Kubernetes: What it is and what it isn’t
- Learning on Twitch
- How to use Trill for impression feedback (part 1)
- Announcing OpenTelemetry: the merger of OpenCensus and OpenTracing
- ONNX Runtime: a one-stop shop for machine learning inferencing
- Hello Service Mesh Interface (SMI): A specification for service mesh interoperability
- Helm 3: simpler to use, more secure to operate
- Extending Kubernetes in the open
- Updates on Red Hat and Microsoft Azure joint innovation
- Announcing the public preview of Azure Image Builder
- 88 years of free open source builds in 8 months with Azure Pipelines
- Introducing pg_auto_failover: Open source extension for automated failover and high-availability in PostgreSQL
- Announcing KEDA: bringing event-driven containers and functions to Kubernetes
- Trill 102: Temporal Joins
- Adding automated performance quality gates using Keptn Pitometer
- What’s new in the latest release: Terraform Azure provider v1.24.0 and v1.25.0
- How to teach cloud-powered mobile app development to students
- Microsoft open sources Data Accelerator for Apache Spark
- Publishing GitHub Pages from Azure Pipelines
- How Honeycomb is empowering all developers to better understand their systems
- How to identify and eliminate secrets sprawl on Azure with HashiCorp Vault
- Brigade tutorial: Instant scaling on demand with serverless Kubernetes
- Trill 101: how to add temporal queries to your applications
- Announcing Brigade 1.0: Build a new kind of distributed application
- Windows containers now supported in Kubernetes
- What’s new in the latest release: Terraform Azure provider v1.23.0
- JUnit 5 adopts Azure Pipelines
- What I learned in a year of Postgres – with Azure Database for PostgreSQL
- Scaling a WordPress application using Rook on Azure Kubernetes Service
- Microsoft open sources Accessibility Insights
- Now Available: Bitbucket Pipes for Azure
- Setting up Jenkins X on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Make websites on WordPress and Joomla faster with Azure CDN
- Tutorial: Adding distributed tracing instrumentation to a browser JavaScript app
- Top 3 reasons developers should use social media
- What’s new in the latest release: Terraform Azure provider v1.22.0
- Microsoft joins the OpenChain community to help drive open source compliance
- Improved discovery experience for Microsoft containers on Docker Hub
2018 73
- What is a service mesh anyways?
- Microsoft open sources Trill, a powerful query processor for analytics at incredible speeds
- Introducing AMBROSIA: a new platform for reliable distributed applications without all the hassle
- 4 new Python/Django video tutorials for productive cloud development
- Phippy and friends join the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
- Achieve workload compliance and scale-to-zero with new Kubernetes open source projects
- Introducing CNAB: a cloud-agnostic format for packaging and running distributed applications
- Announcing the Service Fabric provider for Bosh
- Attention: MySQL & PostgreSQL Azure Terraform resource users
- Tutorial: Using Azure DevOps to setup a CI/CD pipeline and deploy to Kubernetes
- Join us for Pre-KubeCon Community Workshops
- Tutorial: Terraforming your JAMstack on Azure with Gatsby, Azure Pipelines, and Git
- #Hacktoberfest 2018: Thank you!
- Microsoft and HashiCorp collaborate to build a better Terraform provider
- Beyond code: how content helps open source projects thrive
- Use case: Modern Service Mesh with Consul on Azure (Part 2)
- Use case: Modern service discovery with Consul on Azure (Part 1)
- Join our #Hacktoberfest 2018 celebration!
- Hacktoberfest: Tips for growing open source communities in October and beyond
- Connect with the Azure team at AnsibleFest
- Tutorial: Automate infrastructure and deployment on Azure using Jenkins and Ansible
- Tutorial: Jenkins CI/CD to deploy an ASP.NET Core application to Azure Web App service
- Tutorial: Jenkins CI/CD to deploy an ASP.NET Core application to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Join Pivotal and Microsoft for the European JUG Tour
- Updates on DevOps and CI/CD support for Jenkins
- How to automate your release notes
- Securing Kubernetes workloads in hybrid settings with Aporeto
- Announcing Project Athens and GopherSource for the Go community
- DevOps trends and tips from our resident pros
- Tutorial: Using Azure REST API in Ansible to automate Azure resources
- Don’t be “pitchy” with your pitches
- Celebrating OSCON’s 20th anniversary
- How to process streams of data with Apache Kafka and Spark
- Announcing Open Service Broker for Azure 1.0 and more community updates
- Tutorial: CI/CD using Apache Subversion, Jenkins in Azure and Tomcat
- Tutorial: Canary Deployment for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
- Microsoft joins the OpenCensus project
- Q&A with Kubernetes co-founder Brendan Burns
- GitHub acquisition furthers Microsoft’s commitment to open source
- Why JavaScript and Node.js are ruling the web: Interview with John Papa
- Tutorial: Immutable infrastructure for Azure, using VSTS, Terraform, Packer and Ansible
- Tutorial: CI/CD for Azure using Terraform, Ansible and VSTS
- How to create a custom VSTS agent on Azure ACI with Terraform
- Why to love Python today and tomorrow: Interview with Nina Zakharenko
- New hands-on labs: Create containerized apps with Kubernetes in Azure
- Deploying and using HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise on Azure
- How to deploy a production-ready Node.js HA Stack on Azure
- Countdown to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2018
- Get started with Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Azure for free
- 5 reasons you should be doing container native development
- Meet Microsoft at Cloud Foundry Summit!
- HashiCorp co-founder on simplifying infrastructure management
- HashiCorp Vault speaks Azure Active Directory
- Automate more Azure resources with Ansible 2.5 and Galaxy
- Deploying a Java application on Azure Container Service and Cosmos DB
- Open source libraries for Microsoft Quantum
- New "Designing Distributed Systems" O'Reilly e-book, available for free download
- Open Source Weekly: database services for MySQL and PostgreSQL and more
- Microsoft joins effort to help advance open source licensing
- Open Source Weekly: Azure Service Fabric goes open source, new Open Source Show, and more
- Microsoft at SCaLE 16x
- Join OSI and Microsoft in the new ClearlyDefined project
- What we learned at the first Helm Summit
- How startup Beco built its IoT cloud on Azure
- Five things about TypeScript
- Now on GitHub: The Autonomous Driving Cookbook from Microsoft
- Open Source Weekly: VS Code included in Anaconda, TypeScript 2.7 available
- Ready, Set, Go lang: Brian Ketelsen explains Go’s fast growing popularity
- Introducing Brady: our resident ninja sloth finds a home on GitHub
- Open Source Weekly: new Ansible on Azure improvements and more
- Applying compliance frameworks with Chef InSpec on Azure Government
- OpenAI masters scale with Kubernetes on Azure
- Top questions about Terraform and Azure
2017 40
- Announcing Mesosphere DC/OS Enterprise in the Azure Marketplace
- Kashti: New dashboard and visualization tool for Kubernetes pipelines
- Connect with the Azure team at KubeCon (or watch the live stream!)
- Join us for a Kubernetes on Azure AMA
- Using s3cmd and other Amazon S3-compatible apps with Azure Blob Storage
- Open Source Weekly #4
- Introducing Brigade: event-driven scripting for Kubernetes
- Open Source Weekly #2
- Node.js dev? Learn how to host your apps on Azure
- Open Source Weekly #1
- Open source sessions at Microsoft Ignite
- Microsoft joins the Open Source Initiative
- Free webinar series by Microsoft + Hortonworks
- Industry leader creates a dynamic showcase for digital transformation
- Securing Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub on Microsoft Azure
- Node.js performance monitoring with Prometheus
- Connect with Microsoft at the Node Summit
- Learn about open source business opportunities at Microsoft Inspire
- Visual Studio Code extension for Arduino is now open source
- Highlights from Microsoft Open Days 2017 across Asia Pacific
- Join us for Microsoft Azure OpenDev
- Cardinal Solutions is the 2017 Open Source on Azure Partner of the Year
- Packing a Kubernetes Microservices App with Helm on Azure Container Service
- Connect with Microsoft at OSCON 2017
- Microsoft R Server 9.1 now available
- Azure HDInsight 3.6, now generally available
- Now available: open source Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit
- Highlights from FOSSASIA Open Tech Summit 2017
- Develop big data applications with MapR on Microsoft Azure
- Making a winning bet on open source project selection
- How to optimize your data architecture with Hadoop on Azure
- Microsoft’s open source Project Olympus grows partner ecosystem
- Get ready for FOSSASIA Summit 2017!
- Announcing the availability of N|Solid in the Azure Marketplace
- Microsoft Azure 시작하기 – LAMP 스택 설치하고 이용 하기
- Azure CLI 2.0 now generally available
- Protecting innovation in the cloud with Azure IP Advantage
- Clear Linux* OS now available in the Azure Marketplace
- Hybrid cloud monitoring is easy with Microsoft OMS
- Docker on Microsoft Azure – תצורות שימוש ויתרונות
2016 38
- Create Custom Linux VM on Azure – Step by Step Guide
- Zoom on the InfoQ week, featuring BizSpark Plus startups!
- Now available: Microsoft R Server 9.0 with support for Spark 2.0
- Elevate your skills to the cloud with new Azure trainings
- Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation
- How-to: Install Cloudera Enterprise on Microsoft Azure (Part 2)
- How-to: Install Cloudera Enterprise on Microsoft Azure (Part 1)
- Running the MEAN stack on Microsoft Azure – Part II
- Running the MEAN stack on Microsoft Azure (Part I)
- Objective Corporation chooses Azure for its open source-friendly cloud
- Microsoft takes next step in open source journey with PowerShell release
- Microsoft Ignite in Atlanta
- DevOps on Azure: Resources and Updates
- Bitnami makes deploying open source apps in the cloud easy
- Resources to get ready for WPC 2016
- Harness the power of open source in the public cloud
- OpenSistemas is the 2016 Open Source on Azure Partner of the Year
- #DevSpotlight: The story behind Social Champ – the best birthday present ever
- Microsoft at OSCON 2016
- Try the Bitnami 'Super Human' lab
- Forrester names Microsoft Azure a leader in big data Hadoop cloud solutions
- Cloudera on Azure: resources and updates
- Red Hat on Azure: Resources and Updates
- How the Microsoft-Red Hat partnership is accelerating partner opportunities
- Bash on Ubuntu on Windows
- SocialDice: Revolutionizing talent recruitment in the the Middle East
- Try the Chef 'Super Human" lab: Automate an infrastructure
- Announcing SQL Server on Linux
- Improving airports using open source tools on Microsoft Azure
- Microsoft to acquire Xamarin, a leader in mobile app development
- Becoming a Microsoft cloud partner: Part 1
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux now available in the Azure Marketplace
- How to bring data to life with open source Power BI visuals
- Making R the Enterprise Standard for Cross-Platform Analytics
- Garuda Indonesia: Web sales soar 200% with Microsoft Azure
- Shibboleth and OpenLDAP: Azure Resource Manager Quick Start Templates
- Try popular open source technologies in 'Super Human' labs
- Microsoft open sources Edge’s Chakra JavaScript engine
2015 8
- Connect with Microsoft’s open source pros on Periscope
- With new partnership, Red Hat and Microsoft open up the cloud for customers
- Astiostech: Growing Telephony Company Has Global Reach and Big Plans with Reliable, Open Azure
- Da Nang City: Most tech-savvy city in Vietnam with Microsoft cloud
- Sela Group helps customers transition to the Cloud
- Alter Way Is the Open Source on Microsoft Azure Partner of the Year
- Free Webinars On-Demand: OSS on Azure Tech Series
- My story: What I learned from being a CEO startup