The deal with Docker was inked a few months back. Now Microsoft describes how to create a Docker VM that hosts any number of containers for your apps running in Azure.

Deploying a container only takes a single command with a few basic parameters and you can pull containers from public repositories like the Docker Hub or our private repositories on Azure.

The “container as a service” lets you rapidly create and launch containerized applications, including from Kubernetes, without any overhead and with an easily scriptable set of commands Azure ...