Microsoft today announced it has launched a fully supported version the FreeBSD Unix 10.3 operating system and made it available in Azure.<\/p>\n
Jason Anderson Principal PM Manager, Open Source Technology Centre said,<\/p>\n
“One of our primary reasons for making these investments in FreeBSD on Hyper-V was to enable FreeBSD VMs to run in Azure, as Hyper-V is the virtualization platform for Azure. You may be wondering, Why is it so important for FreeBSD to run in Azure? Many top-tier virtual appliance vendors base their products on the FreeBSD operating system. Over the past 2 years, we\u2019ve worked closely with Citrix Systems, Array Networks, Stormshield, Gemalto and Netgate to bring their virtual appliances to the Azure Marketplace, and we\u2019re continuing to work with a long list of others for future offerings. However, if you wanted to run your own FreeBSD image in Azure, your only option so far was to bring a custom image from outside of Azure.<\/p>\n
Today, I\u2019m excited to announce the availability of FreeBSD 10.3 as a ready-made VM image available directly from the Azure Marketplace. This means that not only can you quickly bring-up a FreeBSD VM in Azure, but also that in the event you need technical support, Microsoft support engineers can assist”<\/p>\n
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\n“One of our primary reasons for making these investments in FreeBSD on Hyper-V was to enable FreeBSD VMs to run in Azure, as Hyper-V is the virtualization platform for Azure. You may be wondering, Why is it so important for FreeBSD to run in Azure? Many top-tier virtual appliance vendors base their products on the FreeBSD operating system.<\/br> Continue reading