We’re excited to stock that Microsoft has been named a Leader successful the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management.

We’re excited to stock that Microsoft has been named a Leader successful the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management.* This is the 2nd twelvemonth successful a enactment that Microsoft has been named a Leader successful this Gartner® Magic Quadrant™, and we judge this designation reflects the ongoing concern Microsoft has made to enactment moving a wide scope of containerized workloads astatine scale. We privation to marque Azure the champion unreality to tally containers, Kubernetes, and enactment adaptive unreality usage cases similar hybrid and edge. 

Gartner® designation of Microsoft arsenic a Leader successful this Magic Quadrant™, we feel, highlights the extended features of our instrumentality services, including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Azure Container Apps. AKS provides a robust level for deploying, managing, and orchestrating containerized applications with customization and flexibility. Azure Container Apps is simply a afloat managed, serverless instrumentality work that offers a developer centric experience. All of Azure Container Services person beardown integration with the Azure and Microsoft ecosystem, including developer tools, databases, and AI services. Azure’s exertion level delivers the astir broad acceptable of capabilities for gathering intelligent apps, underpinned by robust information and governance. 

A amended instrumentality absorption experience

We privation to connection the astir secure, reliable, and productive instrumentality absorption acquisition for our customers. This year, we’ve continued to present caller features to marque this acquisition a reality.

• AKS Automatic (preview) automates AKS clump setup and absorption to supply the easiest managed Kubernetes acquisition for developers, DevOps, and level engineers.
• Deployment safeguards for AKS (preview) tin enforce champion practices and policies connected Kubernetes clusters—improving information and reliability. 
• Kubernetes AI toolchain relation (KAITO) add-on for AKS (preview) makes it easier to tally open-source ample connection models (LLMs) connected Kubernetes by optimizing assets utilization and automating configuration.
• Dynamic sessions successful Azure Container Apps (preview) provides accelerated entree to secure, sandboxed environments that are perfect for moving codification oregon applications that necessitate beardown isolation from different workloads.

Learn much astir the latest announcements for AKS and Azure Container Apps from Microsoft Build 2024.

Building solutions with our customers

Our continuing innovation is successful work to our customers. We’re thrilled to spot however customers are utilizing Azure Container Services to physique transformational solutions for their businesses. Below are conscionable a fewer caller examples:

• Victoria’s Secret & Co. has reached 99.99% availability and accrued its deployments and releases from 9 per twelvemonth to astir 3,300 annually with AKS.
• Sapiens has accrued its quality to innovate with AI and reduced improvement clip by adopting AKS and Azure-managed databases. 
• Finastra has achieved much predominant merchandise updates and amended show by migrating from on-premises systems to Windows containers connected AKS. 
• Fujitsu’s DXP Cloud, an in-house unreality platform, surfaces Azure capabilities to its users, including Azure Container Apps, to amended developer productivity. 

Innovate with Microsoft

We’re honored to beryllium a Leader successful the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management. We look guardant to making our services adjacent amended and continuing to assistance customers to innovate with Azure.

• Explore Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure Container Apps solutions.
• Learn much about building and modernizing intelligent apps on Azure.
• Dive into the AKS assemblage connected YouTube, led by the Azure Kubernetes Service team, for the latest merchandise updates.

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Container Management, By Dennis Smith, Tony Iams, Michael Warrilow, Wataru Katsurashima, Lucas Albuquerque, 9 September 2024.

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