Azure Weekly

Issue #198 - 28th October 2018

Welcome to edition 198 of Azure Weekly! We expect to see some friendly faces at Future Decoded in London in a few days - if you see any endjineers, do come and say hi!

Here are this week's announcements/updates:

Elsewhere: on the Serverless360 blog, Steef-Jan Wiggers provides a comprehensive Lap Around Functions 2.0; on the Azure podcast, the team talks with Daniel Baker about Getting skilled in Azure; and, on the Cloudy in Nashville blog, Bill Zack provides a helpful Azure Migration Assessment Methodology.

Finally, Ali Raza has written a great article on Demystifying the amazing latest version of Azure Machine Learning service (Public Preview) in an intuitive manner.

⚙️ AI + Machine Learning

Intellect Blog, Ali Raza, Azure Cloud Solution Architect (Data & AI), writes about Demystifying the amazing latest version of Azure Machine Learning service (Public Preview) in an intuitive manner.
On the Azure blog, Ashish Makadia (@_ashmaka) announces the Public preview: Named Entity Recognition in the Cognitive Services Text Analytics API
Also on the Azure blog, Wilson Lee and Wee Hyong Tok describe How developers can get started with building AI applications
On Code Project, Allen O'Neil (@ajsondev) covers Setting up a Deep Learning Machine on Azure from the App Marketplace
On the Revolution Analytics blog, David Smith (@revodavid) provides an AI, Machine Learning and Data Science Roundup: October 2018

🔎 Analytics

On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) describes how to Parameterize connections to your data stores in Azure Data Factory with Gaurav Malhotra
On Code Project, Allen O'Neil (@ajsondev) covers The basics of Azure Data Factory
Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) writes Calling The Power BI REST API From Microsoft Flow, Part 1: Creating A Flow Custom Connector and Part 2: Refreshing A Dataset When a Data Source Changes

🖥️ Compute

On the Azure blog, Sandeep Kalarickal explains how to Approve, audit support access requests to VMs using Customer Lockbox for Azure (PP)
Also on the Azure blog, Tom Keane writes that Azure Availability Zones expand with new services and to new regions
On MSDN, Vittorio Franco Libertucci describes Why proactively ensuring you have access to GRUB and sysrq in your Linux VM could save you lots of down time
Also on MSDN, Sravan Rengarajan walks through Monitoring Service Fabric with CloudMonix
James van Den Berg talks about Microsoft Azure Service Fabric Mesh for your Microservices and Container Apps in the Cloud
On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) talks about Scaling effortlessly with Service Fabric Mesh with Chacko Daniel
Jason Roberts (@robertsjason) covers Azure Functions Dependency Injection with Autofac
On Code Project, Bruno Edoh explains how to Build a Serverless Payment Processing App with PaymentSpring & Azure Functions
On the Serverless360 blog, Steef-Jan Wiggers (@SteefJan) provides A Lap Around Functions 2.0

🚢 Containers

The Azure updates team describes Deleting abandoned AKS clusters, highlights the Public preview: Azure Container Instances support of managed identities, blogs about Removing Kubernetes 1.7 and 1.8 support in AKS on November 30, 2018 and highlights the General availability: Azure Kubernetes Service in UK West
On MSDN, Atul Verma writes about ASP.NET Core 2.1 Web API – Load App Configuration from appsettings.json, Dockerfile environment variables, Azure Key Vault Secrets and Kubernetes ConfigMaps/Secrets
Mark Heath (@mark_heath) covers Deploying WordPress on Azure Web App for Containers

🗄️ Databases

The Azure updates team highlights the SQL Database Managed Instance Business Critical GUID changes
On MSDN, Mine Tokus Altug discusses SQL Server IaaS Extension Query Service for SQL Server on Azure VM
Also on MSDN, Fernando Cobo Enriquez explains how to Connect to Azure SQL Database Managed Instance with Virtual Network peering
On Geeks with Blogs, Gino Abraham explains how to Enable Transparent data encryption on SQL Server IaaS with Azure Key vault
On the Azure blog, Rafat Sarosh writes about Azure Cosmos DB partitioning design patterns – Part 1
Michael Crump (@mbcrump) writes Azure Tips and Tricks Part 166 - Data Storage Options with Azure Storage and Cosmos DB and Part 167 - Migrating Data from Cosmos DB to Local JSON files
On .NET Rocks, Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell covers PostgreSQL on Azure with Craig Kerstiens

🛠️ Developer Tools

On the Azure blog, Christine Alford covers the Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 22
On Channel 9, Seth Juarez (@sethjuarez) describes how to Train Machine Learning Models with Azure ML in VS Code with Chris Lauren
On the Azure podcast, the Azure podcast team (@AzurePodcast) presents Episode 251 - Getting skilled in Azure with Daniel Baker
On MSDN, Karina Homme (@karinalhomme) provides a Meetup replay: Cloud DemoPalooza – Gov Style
K. Scott Allen (@OdeToCode) writes Major Updates for my Building Secure Services in Azure Course

🔩 DevOps

On MSDN, Martin Woodward blogs about ExpressRoute for Azure DevOps
The Azure updates team highlights the YAML improvements in Azure Pipelines - Sprint 142 Update
On Channel 9, Damian Brady talks about Using Azure Pipelines for your Open Source Project with Edward Thomson
On the Black Marble blog, Richard Fennell (@richardfennell) writes YAML documentation for my Azure Pipeline Tasks and how I generated it
On MSDN, Divya Vaishnavi writes that Test Analytics in Azure Pipelines is now at your fingertips
Also on MSDN, Edward Thomson lists the Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.10.19
Also on MSDN, Prashant Pratap writes about Azure DevOps to Azure AppServices
On the Kloud blog, Santhosh Kumar provides a Step-by-step: Using Azure DevOps Services to deploy ARM templates with CI/ CD – Part 2
Also on MSDN, Tanmayee Kamath talks about Azure DevTest Labs: Configure enforcing auto shutdown schedule for your lab and writes that Azure DevTest Labs now available in 4 new regions

🎭 Identity

On the Kloud blog, Darren Robinson (@darrenjrobinson) discusses Azure Active Directory B2B Pending and Accepted User Reports and walks through Enrolling and using both Microsoft Authenticator and a YubiKey Physical Token with Azure MFA
On MSDN, Prashant Pratap describes how to Call Azure AD protected website using Managed Service Identity (MSI)
Also on MSDN, Herald Gjura describes Automating the creation of Azure Service Principals with PowerShell
Sam Cogan (@samcogan) writes that Azure Active Directory is not Active Directory!

🔌 Integration

On the Kloud blog, Olaf Loogman walks through Translating JSON messages with Logic Apps
On the Serverless360 blog, Michael Stephenson walks through Extending Dynamics CRM Functionality with Serverless Components on Azure and writes about Real World Azure Serverless Use Case to Implement a B2B API
On TechNet, John.M.Clark asks Multi-Cloud Strategies – Do they work?

💡 Internet of Things

On the Azure blog, Rodney Clark talks about Building an IoT ecosystem that fuels business transformation
Also on the Azure blog, Peter Cooper and Mark Pendergrast talk about What they know now: Insights from top IoT leaders and write It’s time to connect your products — here’s why
Also on the Azure blog, Nicole Berdy (@nberdy) writes about IoT device authentication options
The Azure updates team provides some Background on Azure Sphere tenant concept
On Channel 9, Olivier Bloch (@obloch) describes how to Update Mongoose OS with Automatic Device Management in Azure IoT Hub with Sergey Lyubka and talks about ThreadX integration with Azure IoT Hub with John Carbone
On Code Project, Intel Corporation writes about the IEI Tank AIoT Developer Kit and Microsoft Azure: Running Machine Learning on the Edge
On Channel 9, Burke Holland (@burkeholland) talks about Five IoT Devices You Should Have Bought Yesterday with Suz Hinton

⚖️ Management and Governance

On the Azure blog, Danny Maertens explains What's new in PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell
On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) talks about PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell (GA) with Danny Maertens
Also on the Azure blog, Brendan Burns (@brendandburns) talks about Expanding the HashiCorp partnership
On the Catapult Systems blog, Matthew Dowst explains how to Create Direct Link to a Log Analytic Query
Also on the Azure blog, Francis Yu describes how to Query Azure Storage analytics logs in Azure Log Analytics
The Azure updates team highlights the Azure portal October update, writes that Classic alerts in Azure Monitor to retire in June 2019 and writes about the Simplified restore experience for Azure virtual machines
Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) writes (Solution) VM Is Not Booting After Failover To Azure With Azure Site Recovery
Also on the Azure blog, Rahul Bagaria eludes to Seven best practices for Continuous Monitoring with Azure Monitor
On Code Project, Allen O'Neil (@ajsondev) describes Azure Cost Management with Cloudyn
Also on the Azure blog, Guru Kirthigavasan announces that Microsoft and SWIFT make Azure cloud native payments a reality
Stanislav Zhelyazkov (@StanZhelyazkov) asks What is Azure Schema?
Also on the Azure blog, John Messec talks about Azure Update Management: A year of great updates
Daniel Örneling (@DanielOrneling) talks about What's new in SCOM 2019 and 1901
The Azure updates team highlights the US Government Bandwidth Data Transfer In and Out GUID migration

🚌 Migration

Bill Zack (@WilliamHZack) provides An Azure Migration Assessment Methodology

📱 Mobile

On the Xamarin blog, Arnstein Johansen writes about Xamarin.Forms and Zeplin: Speed Up Your Design to Development Process
On MSDN, James S White writes that Visual Studio App Center Levels Up with Unity Support

🌐 Networking

On the Kloud blog, Michael Roger talks about Address Space maintenance with VNet Peering
The Azure updates team writes about the General availability: Standard Load Balancer in Azure China cloud and highlights the Standard Load Balancer name changes
On MSDN, Chris Tjoumas talks about Understanding CIDR Notation when designing Azure Virtual Networks and Subnets
James van Den Berg writes Microsoft Azure Hub-Spoke model by Enterprise Design 1 of 4 Azure Cloud

🔐 Security

Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) explains how to Protect Workloads with Azure Confidential Computing
On TechNet, Yuri Diogenes (@yuridiogenes) writes about the Failed to connect to mdsd error in a Linux machine monitored by Azure Security Center
Also on TechNet, Stanislav Belov highlights the Infrastructure + Security: Noteworthy News October, 2018
On the Azure blog, Liza Mash Levin describes how to Control and improve your security posture with Azure Secure score

📦 Storage

The Azure updates team highlights the Blob Storage GUID migration and name changes
On MSDN, Prashant Pratap discusses Azure Storage Blob upload from browser

🔗 Web

The Azure updates team writes Deprecating older versions of the Azure API Management REST API and provides a Azure API Management update October 24
On MSDN, Andrew Stanton-Nurse writes about the ASP.NET SignalR 2.4.0 Preview 2
Also on MSDN, Matt FJH announces the CosmosDB Table Async OutputCache Provider Release and ASP.NET Providers Connected Service Extension Update