Microsoft Launches Azure PaaS Services and DevOps Tools Preview for Azure Stack

February 20, 2016 Off By David

Grazed from InfoQ.  Author: Kent Weare.

Microsoft is approaching the cloud as a model and not something that is tied to a specific location.  For customers who are not ready for public cloud, Microsoft is trying to bring cloud based capabilities to local data centers that allow customers to develop and deploy IT services in a symmetric way to that of Azure.

In response to customer demand, Microsoft has been working on a private cloud solution called Azure Stack that shares much of the same computing fabric that exists in Azure. InfoQ previously covered the January 26th release of Azure Stack Technical Preview 1.  As a result, this article will focus on what has changed since then.  Following their Technical Preview 1 release of Azure Stack, Microsoft has launched Azure PaaS Services and DevOps tools, in preview, for Azure Stack…

 
Microsoft plans on providing continuous updates to Azure Stack while it is in preview.  In the first installment of what Microsoft is calling “continuous innovation”, the following services and tools are now available for download including:..

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