November 08, 2016 at 01:02PM
Microsoft's ACS to also support Kubernetes, Mesosphere DC/OS and Docker Swarm. #readingToday

Microsoft has released its Azure Container Service (ACS) to the open source community, as the tech giant seeks to work alongside contributors on improving the code underlying ACS deployments.

The open source release will see Microsoft develop interoperability and support of the ACS Engine across three different container orchestration platforms; Kubernetes, Mesosphere DC/OS and Docker Swarm. The move will see Microsoft become the first public cloud provider to support all of the most popular pieces of orchestration software.

Microsoft has released its Azure Container Service (ACS) to the open source community and announced deeper support for Kubernetes.