A fun surprise: #Valkey lands in Azure.
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A fun surprise: #Valkey lands in Azure.
Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0 Adds Valkey, Enables Other New Features
Microsoft has released Azure Linux 3.0.20241005 as the 'October 2024' update to the company's in-house Linux distribution.
(www.phoronix.com)
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@linux_mclinuxface Do they have a managed service?
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@jawnsy They do _not_ have a Valkey service. So far MS has been pretty arms-length with Valkey.
There is a managed Redis service currently. I don't know what they're going to do with it honestly. I've heard rumours about offering something from Redis, Inc but Garnet also exists so
GitHub - microsoft/garnet: Garnet is a remote cache-store from Microsoft Research that offers strong performance (throughput and latency), scalability, storage, recovery, cluster sharding, key migration, and replication features. Garnet can work with existing Redis clients.
Garnet is a remote cache-store from Microsoft Research that offers strong performance (throughput and latency), scalability, storage, recovery, cluster sharding, key migration, and replication features. Garnet can work with existing Redis clients. - microsoft/garnet
GitHub (github.com)
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MSFT has had a strategic partnership with Redis since 2020:
Redis Labs Announces Strategic Agreement with Microsoft to Deliver Redis Enterprise as an Integrated Managed Service on Microsoft Azure Cache - Redis
Redis Labs announces strategic agreement with Microsoft. Read the press release at Redis.com.
Redis (redis.io)
They can continue to offer Redis-aaS.
There's nothing stopping them from playing both sides and also support Valkey though.
I'd certainly play that angle in case the partnership ever needs to be renewed if I were MSFT.
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@larsrosenquist @jawnsy well, that all predates recent moves. I’d guess the agreement doesn’t cover enterprise at lower tiers (which would be silly from an overhead perspective).
Then there is Garnet: it’s actively being worked on quickly recently. And Azure Linux…
I dunno, but I’d love to know what’s going on inside that team: lots of smoke, no fire yet.
