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Azure credits for open source projects

Sep 27, 2021 • 1 min read

Microsoft is granting Azure credits to open source projects to help with their testing, builds, and other development work.

https://opensource.microsoft.com/azure-credits

Here's more about some of the projects already participating in the program.

FreeBSD
FreeBSD is a Unix-like operating system for servers, desktops, and embedded platforms. Azure credits have helped developers to work on custom kernels. They are now releasing more timely updates for security advisories for third-party software and spinning up larger VM classes for package building and smaller VM classes for testing, both of which are hugely helpful to their developers.
Alma Linux
An enterprise Linux distribution system.
Haskell
Haskell is a purely functional programming language. Azure credits are helping their continuous integration system, releases, their GitLab instances, and other builds.
Snakemate
The Snakemake workflow management system is a tool for creating reproducible and scalable data analyses. Workflows are described via a human-readable, Python-based language, and Snakemake enables these to be seamlessly scaled to server, cluster, grid, and cloud environments.