As early as 2015, Microsoft had reached a cooperation with Red Hat to jointly develop cloud-based solutions for the enterprise market. After two years, the two companies have cooperated more closely in various aspects of the enterprise market. Today, the two companies once again announced to help enterprises deploy containers more conveniently.
The cooperation between the two parties includes the deployment of Red Hat OpenShift on Microsoft Azure, native support for Windows Server on the Red Hat OpenShift container platform, and the deployment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux SQL Server is natively supported on and OpenShift.
Red Hat and Microsoft said that merging container platforms is very difficult, so they have greatly improved their efforts by deploying OpenShift on Azure. Engineers from both parties worked together to optimize OpenShift Dedicated on the Microsoft cloud platform. This feature will be launched in early 2018.