[skyraider]

This is interesting when compared to Amazon Elastic Container Service because of Azure Container Service's support for native Docker clustering tools.

If I am developing user docker-compose, I want to deploy that way, too - at least until I reach scale, at which point I want scheduling and orchestration tools, e.g. Swarm.

For easier disaster recovery, it's very convenient if these scheduling/orchestration tools let you deploy in the same way cross-cloud-provider. Swarm can run on AWS/Azure/GCE/bare metal, whereas ECS (which doesn't support Swarm and has its own scheduling/orchestration toolset) can only run on ECS.

+1 to MS for thinking about native tooling up-front.

[CoreySanders]

One of our primary goals with ACS is to make sure we offered versatility with the platform. We wanted to support both a choice of orchestrators (DCOS and Swarm) and wanted to expose these open source solutions directly, enabling cross-cloud mobility.

Disclosure: I work for Microsoft on Azure.

[wstrange]

Will Kubernetes be supported in the future? This is much more interesting to me than Swarm

[SEJeff]

Does this mean you and the Azure team convinced Mesosphere to open source DCOS?

[rossgardler]

We (MS) are one of over 60 partners that Mesosphere worked with to open source DC/OS. No convincing required :-)