Azure Weekly

Issue #204 - 9th December 2018

It's another bumper edition this week in Azure Weekly; the Connect() conference has brought us a lot of gifts. Plenty of announcements and updates in almost every area, and we're particularly excited about the constant improvements to Cosmos DB. A small feature that was eagerly anticipated at endjin has been implemented by the Cosmos team, and I've written a short post about it here: Cosmos DB – Request Units charged for processing a Gremlin API request. Otherwise, here are the rest of the updates:

AI + Machine Learning:

Analytics:

Compute:

Containers:

Databases:

Developer Tools:

DevOps:

Identity:

MCAS brings its real-time CASB controls to on-prem apps

Internet of Things:

Management and Governance:

Mobile:

Networking:

SONiC: Global support and updates

Security:

Azure obtains automotive industrys TISAX compliance

Storage:

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 preview – More features, more performance, better availability

Web:

Hopefully that will give you all something to sink your teeth into for the next week, or maybe even longer!

⚙️ AI + Machine Learning

On the Azure blog, Eric Boyd writes about Azure AI – accelerating the pace of AI adoption for organizations
Also on the Azure blog, Venky Veeraraghavan announces the general availability of Azure Machine Learning service: A look under the hood
Also on the Azure blog, Krishna Anumalasetty writes about the New automated machine learning capabilities in Azure Machine Learning service
Also on the Azure blog, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen and Phani Mutyala describe Getting started with Cognitive Services Language Understanding container
Also on the Azure blog, Faith Xu announces that the ONNX Runtime is now open source
The Azure updates team talks about the Custom Translation capability of Text Translator (now GA)
On Channel 9, Noelle Lacharite (@NoelleLaCharite) provides An Introduction to the Intelligent Kiosk AI Show
On the Revolution Analytics blog, Hong Ooi writes about AzureVM: managing virtual machines in Azure

🔎 Analytics

On the Azure blog, Dhruv Goel explains how to Get up to speed with Azure HDInsight: The comprehensive guide
On MSDN, Ben Martens writes about Azure Data Explorer Functions and Control Commands
Also on MSDN, Yujin Hong writes about Real-time Data Streaming with Event Hubs on Azure Government
On the Power BI blog, Mohammad Ali (@mohaali45) explains how to Ask a question using natural language updates and Charles Sterling announces the Power platform Summit Europe in Amsterdam, 27-29 March 2019
On TechNet, Karen Moen talks about Industry Accelerators and Power BI Dataflows: Join this months community call
Chris Webb (@cwebb_bi) describes Listing Windows Language Code Identifiers And Their Associated Date And Number Formats With M In Power BI/Power Query

🖥️ Compute

On the Azure blog, Geetha Lakshmi G writes about An easy way to bring back your Azure VM with In-Place restore
Also on the Azure blog, Sujay Talasila writes about the Disaster recovery of zone pinned Azure Virtual Machines to another region
Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) explains how to Get The List of All VMs in HyperV Cluster and Their Virtual Hard Disks
On TechNet, Amanda Buchholz points to some webinars to help Rapidly enhance your Azure IaaS and Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure technical knowledge
On the Azure blog, Daria Grigoriu writes that Azure Functions gets better for Python and JavaScript developers
On the Kloud blog, John Downs blogs about Integration Testing Timer-Triggered Precompiled v2 Azure Functions
On the Azure podcast, the Azure podcast team (@AzurePodcast) presents Episode 256 - Living in a Serverless world
The Azure updates team highlights the Serverless Community Library
On Microsoft + Open Source, Sudhanva Huruli announces the Service Fabric provider for Bosh

🚢 Containers

On the Azure blog, Sean McKenna announces Bringing serverless to Azure Kubernetes Service
Sam Cogan (@samcogan) blogs about Using Managed Identity with Kubernetes in Azure
Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) blogs about (Auto) Scaling dimensions inside Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
The Azure updates team writes Removing Kubernetes 1.7 and 1.8 support in AKS on November 30, 2018, writes that AKS clusters patched for Kubernetes vulnerability and highlights that Azure Container Service Will Retire on January 31, 2020
On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) talks about Azure Container Registry Tasks: Build and deploy to Azure App Service with Steve Lasker

🗄️ Databases

On the Azure blog, Deborah Chen (@ChenDeborah) provides the Azure Cosmos DB Developer experience updates December 2018 and on the Azure blog, writes that Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK Version 3.0 now in public preview
Also on the Azure blog, Christopher Anderson highlights that Azure Cosmos DB now supports Cross-Origin Resource Sharing CORS
Also on the Azure blog, Rafat Sarosh, Nikisha Reyes-Grange and Balamurugan Balakreshnan write that Johnson Controls tackles a $15b building industry problem with Azure Cosmos DB
Also on the Azure blog, Anthony van Gemert writes that Azure SQL Data Warehouse Gen2 now supports lower compute tiers
Also on the Azure blog, Kavitha Jonnakuti and Anitha Adusumilli write about the General availability of VNet Service Endpoints for Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Also on the Azure blog, Borko Novakovic and Eric Hudson tell us to Migrate mission critical SQL workloads to the most economical cloud destination
On MSDN, Jovan Popovic also highlights that Azure SQL Managed Instance Business Critical tier is Generally Available
Also on the Azure blog, Ganesh Radhakrishnan and Parikshit Savjani explains how to Modernize your Java Spring Boot application with Azure Database for MySQL
The Azure updates team highlights the General availability: Increased compute in Azure Database for MySQL servers and for PostgreSQL servers
Also on the Azure blog, Sudhakar Sannakkayala announces the general availability of Azure Database for MariaDB
The Azure updates team highlights the Public preview: Virtual network service endpoints for Azure Database for MariaDB
Also on MSDN, Vitor Faria Tomaz (@vitortomaz) describes how to Move to Azure Resource Manager REST APIs for Azure SQL Database

🛠️ Developer Tools

On MSDN, the Service Fabric Team highlights the Azure Service Fabric 6.4 release and writes about the Service Fabric Mesh Preview Refresh Release
On the Azure blog, Yi Zhong writes that the Azure IoT Java SDK provides improved Android support
On the Black Marble blog, Richard Fennell (@richardfennell) talks about the Azure Pipeline YAML support on VSCode
Also on MSDN, John Montgomery (@JohnMont) writes about Making every developer more productive with Visual Studio 2019
Also on MSDN, Jon Chu writes about Visual Studio Live Share for real-time code reviews and interactive education
On the Visual Studio blog, Mark Wilson-Thomas (@MarkPavWT) highlights that Visual Studio IntelliCode supports more languages and learns from your code
Also on MSDN, Rich Lander (@runfaster2000) announces .NET Core 2.2
Also on MSDN, Wriju Ghosh (@wrijugh) highlights the Azure REST API Explorer

🔩 DevOps

On the Azure blog, Jeremy Epling writes about the New Azure Pipelines announcements – VS Code extension, GitHub Releases, and more
Also on the Azure blog, Aaron Bjork walks through Linking your GitHub commits with Azure Boards
The Azure updates team describes how to Link GitHub commits and pull requests to Azure Boards work items and more - Sprint 144 Update
On MSDN, Edward Thomson lists the Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.11.30
On the Black Marble blog, Richard Fennell (@richardfennell) describes Programmatically adding User Capabilities to Azure DevOps Agents
Robb Schiefer provides an Azure Pipelines (VSTS) Quick Tip – CI Trigger Build Batching
Callon Campbell introduces the Azure DevOps Service Status Portal
Vincent-Philippe Lauzon (@vplauzon) talks about Using Azure DevOps REST API to start multiple releases
On the Codit blog, Toon Vanhoutte explains how to Authenticate Azure DevOps Against its Own REST API
Also on MSDN, Wu Shuai explains how to Get Started with AKS CI / CD in Azure DevOps
Also on MSDN, Tanmayee Kamath discusses Azure Lab Services: TLS 1.2 being enabled soon

🎭 Identity

On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Kim Kischel writes that MCAS brings its real-time CASB controls to on-prem apps
On the Kloud blog, Darren Robinson (@darrenjrobinson) talks about Microsoft Graph and the $whatIf option
On the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, Ben Stegink and Scott Hoag present Episode 102 – Azure AD Goes Down Again
On TechNet, Edward Jones writes that New Azure Role-based Certifications have arrived
Also on TechNet, Gowdhaman Karthikeyan writes about Intune Device Management – Renaming Windows 10 Devices

🔌 Integration

On the Black Marble blog, Riccardo Viglianisi describes Logic App Flat File Schemas and BizTalk Flat File Schemas
On MSDN, David Burg (@david_burg) writes a number of blogs about Logic Apps: Azure Logic Apps connected to SAP, and now what, Why the new SAP connector for Logic Apps, Fix for Logic Apps Log Analytics B2B solution Oops Looks like we couldnt get the data and AS2, EDIFACT connectors updates for Azure Logic Apps
On the Serverless360 blog, Steef-Jan Wiggers (@SteefJan) asks Logic Apps or Durable Functions: Which workflow solution approach suits me best?
Also on the Serverless360 blog, Mohan Nagaraj summarizes the Azure Integration Services Ask Me Anything – Dec 2018

💡 Internet of Things

On the Azure blog, Chandrika Shankarnarayan announces key industrial IoT capabilities in Azure Time Series Insights
Also on the Azure blog, Jean-Sbastien Brunner writes that Azure Stream Analytics on IoT Edge now generally available
Also on the Azure blog, Sam George (@samjgeorge) writes that New Azure IoT offerings simplify IoT application development
Also on the Azure blog, Troy Hopwood writes about Accelerating IoT solution development and testing with Azure IoT Device Simulation
Also on the Azure blog, Hector Garcia Tellado announces that the Azure IoT Remote Monitoring extends operator capabilities to the edge
Also on the Azure blog, Justin Slade writes about IoT in Action: 4 innovations that are revolutionizing IoT
On Code Project, Intel Corporation explains how to Get Started with the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO Toolkit and Microsoft Azure IoT Edge
On Channel 9, Olivier Bloch (@obloch) talks about Deployment and UI customization of an IoT Remote Monitoring solution with Ashley Donaldson and Mary Ellen Chaffin, talks about Device Simulation with Azure IoT with Troy Hopwood and talks about Azure Time Series Insights – end-to-end solution for industrial IoT analytics with Chandrika Shankarnarayan
Also on the Azure blog, Chris Pendleton and Ricky Brundritt announce the Location intelligence for the enterprise: New pricing tier and SDK updates (Azure Maps)

⚖️ Management and Governance

On the Azure blog, Peri Rocha and Leon Welicki provide the Microsoft Azure portal December 2018 update
Also on the Azure blog, Rajani Janaki Ram explains how to Apply the latest Azure Site Recovery capabilities with automatic agent update
The Azure updates team highlights that Application Insights is available in UK South and writes that Azure Backup simplifies data protection and protects against ransomware.
Barry Luijbregts (@azurebarry) explains how to Find the status of Azure services on azureoverview.com
Mark Heath (@mark_heath) writes: This resource group will self destruct in 30 minutes
Callon Campbell talks about Moving your Azure Resources to Another Subscription or Resource Group
On MSDN, Wriju Ghosh (@wrijugh) talks about Azure for Enterprises

⚙️ Microsoft Azure Stack

Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) highlights some Considerations for deploying apps and services on Azure Stack and blogs about Using Azure Update Management on Azure Stack

🚌 Migration

On MSDN, the AzureCAT team points to some resources relating to Datacenter Migration on Azure – Portal

📱 Mobile

On the Xamarin blog, Joseph Hill highlights the Connect() 2018 Xamarin Announcements
Also on the Xamarin blog, David Ortinau writes about The Future of Mobile Development: Xamarin.Forms 4.0 Preview
Also on the Xamarin blog, Jayme Singleton highlights the Xamarin and .NET Developer Events in December
On the Azure blog, Rob Caron (@RobCaronMSFT) writes that Cincinnati Childrens has a great app development experience with Azure services
On MSDN, James S White writes about The Ship List: Visual Studio App Center November Edition

🌐 Networking

On the Azure blog, Yousef Khalidi talks about SONiC: Global support and updates
James van Den Berg writes about the Microsoft Azure virtual datacenter HUB-Spoke Model: A network perspective

🔐 Security

On the Azure blog, David Burt writes that Azure obtains automotive industrys TISAX compliance
On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Jason Wilson explains how to Reduce your potential attack surface using Azure ATP Lateral Movement Paths
On MSDN, Karina Homme (@karinalhomme) provides a Meetup replay: Women Leading Government Cybersecurity

📦 Storage

On the Azure blog, James Baker writes about the Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 preview – More features, more performance, better availability
On the Kloud blog, Anupam Phoghat writes Windows 2016 fileserver cluster on Microsoft StorSimple – Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4
Robert Smit (@Clustermvp) explains how to Extend you File server with Azure File Sync and Migrate with Windows Admin Center

🔗 Web

On the Azure blog, Vladimir Vinogradsky writes about Azure API Management for serverless architectures
On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) talks about Azure API Management for serverless applications with Mike Budzynski
On the Kloud blog, John Downs covers Low-Cost Rate Limiting for Azure Functions APIs with API Management's Consumption Tier
On the Codit blog, Maxim Braekman writes about the Azure API Management: Consumption Tier
On MSDN, Yi Liao writes that WordPress on Linux Updated