Containers

Azure Service Operators – A Kubernetes native way of Deploying Azure Resources

November 11, 2021 Nov 11, 2021 11/11/21

Janani Vasudevan

The promise of being able to standardize on Kubernetes as a platform is attractive as it offers unique solutions to many of the challenges companies face. This post talks about the Azure Service Operator open source project that helps customers deploy Azure Resources using Kubernetes definitions

Enabling COVID-19 Exposure Notifications Across the United States on Azure

September 7, 2021 Sep 7, 2021 09/7/21

Andre Briggs

During pandemics, the ability to let people know if they have been exposed to a contagious disease is essential for public health practitioners. This is known as contact tracing and the COVID-19 pandemic is no exception. In this post, I describe the journey of our Microsoft team to deploy an exposure notification server on Azure.

Preventing Rhino Poaching With Microsoft Azure

May 7, 2019 May 7, 2019 05/7/19

Olga Liakhovich

In the last eight years, poaching in Africa has been happening at an alarming rate. Currently, the continent loses three rhinos a day. As part of our team’s mission to find new ways that technology can positively impact our world, we’ve been collaborating with the Combating Wildlife Crime team Peace Parks Foundation (PPF), in partnership with

Developing and Deploying a Churn Prediction Model with Azure Machine Learning Services

January 10, 2019 Jan 10, 2019 01/10/19

Patty Ryan

Deep learning algorithms capable of learning and predicting customer behavior are allowing businesses to intervene with the right retention offers at the right time. CSE recently partnered with Majid Al Futtaim Ventures (MAF) to design and deploy a machine learning solution to predict attrition.

How to Build A K8S Http API For Helm, and Serve Micro-services Using A Single IP

October 25, 2018 Oct 25, 2018 10/25/18

Itye Richter

The Commercial Software Engineering team (CSE) partnered with Axonize to automate the process of deploying apps to Kubernetes, and expose these apps to the internet via a single IP. This post is about enabling applications in your Kubernetes cluster to programmatically install helm charts and expose them through a single public facing IP.

Infrastructure as Code – On demand GPU clusters with Terraform & Jenkins

August 9, 2018 Aug 9, 2018 08/9/18

Tomer Rosenthal

Developing robust algorithms for self-driving cars requires sourcing event data from over 10 billion hours of recorded driving time. CSE worked with Cognata, a startup developing simulation platforms for autonomous vehicles, to build a Jenkins pipeline and Terraform solution that enabled our partner to dynamically scale GPU resources for their simulations.

Deploying a Batch AI Cluster for Distributed Deep Learning Model Training

July 9, 2018 Jul 9, 2018 07/9/18

Stephanie Marker

Microsoft and Land O'Lakes partnered to develop an automated solution to identify sustainable farming practices given thousands of satellite images of Iowan farms. Our primary goal was to reduce the reliance on manual interviewing of farmers and make it more profitable for farmers to follow sustainable farming practices. To tackle this issue our team deployed a highly scalable Batch AI cluster on Azure and then performed distributed deep learning model training with Horovod.

Building a Private Ethereum Consortium

June 1, 2018 Jun 1, 2018 06/1/18

Jason Poon

Over the past two years, Microsoft and Webjet have collaborated to build a blockchain-based solution, Rezchain, to help travel companies reduce payment disputes. In this code story, we’ll share the lessons learned in creating the Rezchain consortium. In particular, we'll focus on how we solved the challenges involved with enabling Ethereum nodes to peer across virtual networks.