In order to capture the developer's 'heart' and respond to the needs of enterprise users for open source, Microsoft has set up the 'Enterprise Open Source Business Unit (EOSG)' whose task is to create the best Linux experience on Microsoft Smart Cloud Azure. Features, performance and scaling performance are fully responsive to user needs, truly making Azure an 'ideal platform for running open source workloads'.
From the global to China, Azure has joined the official support for open source technologies such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, SUSE Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, FreeBSD, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Mesos.
These efforts are designed to provide more and more application options for global users. Regardless of whether users prefer to use Windows Server, Linux operating system or various open source tools, they can run smoothly on Azure and receive full intellectual property protection. And technical support.
On Azure running in China, more than 60% of virtual machines run a variety of open source applications. Microsoft Azure, which is operated by 21Vianet, has tripled the scale of cloud computing, adding two new Azure zones and two data centers. The Azure Stack hybrid cloud has also been officially commercialized in China.
The open source projects that the Microsoft development team and the open source community work together to create are numerous. At present, Microsoft has more than 6,000 engineers involved in open source projects, more than 9,700 open source components have been adopted, and more than 3,000 open source projects have been released. Microsoft continues to pass on the past. Closed-source projects are increasingly open source, including Service Fabric, Windows Container, Service Broker, etc., and they continue to contribute more open source projects with the majority of the developer community.