SAN FRANCISCO – Docker Inc. has provided a central building block of the burgeoning container ecosystem, but now it wants to help enterprises better manage that ecosystem in a multicloud environment.

Microsoft said it would bulk up Azure's container capabilities by releasing native support on its cloud for the popular Kubernetes container orchestration engine. For Microsoft partners, the addition ...

Links with Docker, work on Google's Kubernetes project, and its own use of Drawbridge all underline Microsoft's enthusiasm for containers, according to new Azure CTO Mark Russinovich. But despite ...