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Every time someone is acquired by Microsoft I can't avoid feeling sad for them.

It's true they'll get a decent amount of money, that, from now on, they have infinitely deep pockets, that they'll have some of the best keyboards and mice, but it's also true their wiki will end up in Sharepoint and their e-mails in Exchange.

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I wonder what the ramifications will be?

Possibilities off the top of my head:

- Tighter integration of Helm, Workflow and Steward into Azure Container Service seems like an obvious one.

- Integration of Helm into Visual Team Studio Services?

- Option to deploy your app from Visual Studio to Azure Container Service

- Better container tools for Azure CLI

And what's the fate of their source control system?

TFS+git would be my guess.

Microsoft is aligning on Git, so it's unlikely that anything will change (and the horror stories of the past are no-longer applicable for new aqui-hires.)

Vanilla git can't handle a repo the size of Microsoft's combined codebase though; surely there must be some additional secret sauce involved?

Well I'd suggest "repo" -- the tool that goes with Gerrit, and collects many git repos into reviewable release units with a manifest. That's what Android does.

(But I'd guess that's probably enough to shoot it down as a tool for Microsoft to ever use, right there. Not rightfully, but likely in fact... maybe that's the old Microsoft though.)

A lot of development around Azure tools is done in the open under various "groups" -- MicrosoftDx, Azure, etc -- there is no one "source repo" for all products. Even when I was at Skype, the repo for that was separate from that for S4B, etc -- I'm sure this has changed in the last few years. But, there isn't a monolithic repo.

Something like Office or Windows, well, that's outside my wheel house of knowledge.

Yup. GVFS: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudioalm/2017/02/03/...

There is no combined Microsoft codebase

From the cited Microsoft link:

>"the Windows codebase has over 3.5 million files and is over 270 GB in size." //

That's just Windows. There's no combined codebase akin to Google's.

Deis mostly has open source tooling on GitHub, I would expect it to stay that way. They have delivered many community projects that made it to https://github.com/kubernetes/ and https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator.

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