You could already run Jenkins on Azure just fine. This announces a business partnership but I don't understand what other implications there are.<p>It seems to me that the big three cloud providers are trying very hard to decommoditize themselves by becoming semi-proprietary platforms. In some cases, such as AWS databases or Microsoft's machine learning APIs, there is a lot of reality there. But in most other cases it's not terribly hard to achieve the same thing with open software on commodity cloud servers.
/vent I don't see what's interesting or really even positively relevant here in 2016. Jenkins was a very important part of what accelerated the early progression on high performance product delivery, but it's not exactly something to aspire to run, nor is it in any way a measure or sign of technological advance to be able or even suitable to run the application. I don't think any level of integration would make this favourable solution. One of Microsofts weaknesses that has only really recently become blatantly obvious publicly is their poor ability to integrate. Having a monopoly on file formats and the such got them a huge wave to ride but they are more of a holdings company stumbling than anything. Their offerings are less than nimble and news like this in 2016 only exists because they're reaching for any public opportunities to make themselves appear relevant. Just look at O365, SharePoint Online etc... They're truly awful to use if required to do so on a regular basis, the sheer latency of those product interfaces alone should be enough to make anyone weary but when you start digging into their network and see how broken their infrastructure is, is damn right scary. They fail to provide reliable network routes, have widespread internal DNS issues and data replication mismatches. Ending my rant here but it damn cheeses me when people fall for the flashy brochure - it's their job to take your money, that is the mission - they don't care about you. /vent<p>*edit: spelling, I'm half asleep