The deal with Docker was inked a few months back. Now Microsoft describes how to create a Docker VM that hosts any number of containers for your apps running in Azure.

The “container as a service” lets you rapidly create and launch containerized applications, including from Kubernetes, without any overhead and with an easily scriptable set of commands Azure ...

Deploying a container only takes a single command with a few basic parameters and you can pull containers from public repositories like the Docker Hub or our private repositories on Azure.

Azure Container Instances (ACI), which let you create Linux and Windows containers without having to manage the virtual machines they run on, are now generally available. ACI brings serverless ...

Sphere 3D's Glassware 2.0 architecture, an alternative container and microvisor platform for porting and running legacy apps without code rewrite, is now available in Azure.

Azure will also support Docker’s open orchestration APIs, so that developers will be able to create a multi-container Dockerized application.