Azure Weekly
Issue #21 - 11th April 2015
This week was a relatively quiet one in the Azure ecosystem; David Ebbo announced Azure Resource Explorer which allows you to more easily discover the Azure Resource Management APIs, get API documentation and to make actual API calls directly in your own subscriptions.
Chef Conf 2015 was held this week and there were several announcements around better integration with Azure.
⚖️ Management and Governance
On the Azure blog, David Ebbo (@davidebbo) announces the Azure Resource Explorer: a new tool to discover the Azure API
On the endjin blog, Richard Kerslake (@kerslakerichard) delves into Azure Automation scheduler and daylight saving time
On the Azure blog, Kundana Palagiri writes about Chef Server in the Azure Marketplace, Azure Virtual Machine Provisioning and PowerShell DSC support
Stuart Preston (@stuartpreston) delves into Chef Provisioning with Microsoft Azure v0.3.2 has been released now with Windows & WinRM support
On the Docker blog, John Willis pubilshes his 3rd Docker tutorial Fun With Volumes while Victor Coisne shares videos from the biggest docker meetup ever.
The Azure podcast features Adam Abdelhamed; PM for the new Azure Portal
On MSDN, Wriju Ghosh explains how to effectively use Azure MSDN Account to avoid exceeding the quota
🖥️ Compute
On TechNet, Chris Davies covers setting up RemoteApp on Azure while Brad Anderson announces the preview of IaaS VM Backup Capability
🌐 Networking
The Brisbane Cloud User Group blog hightlights that affinity groups are no longer recommended or required
💡 Internet of Things
On the endjin blog, Howard van Rooijen (@HowardvRooijen) shows how to do package restore against a private NuGet feed on Azure Web Apps.
- On MSDN, Yi Wang MS OSS writes about installing PHP Package on Azure Website Using PEAR Package Manager
Chandrika Shankarnarayan talks about usability improvements in the new Azure Portal on Azure Friday
Robert Green describes how to cloud enable a WPF LOB Application
On the Azure blog, Nir Mashkowski talks about the premium tier for Azure App Service
Sara Silva (@saramgsilva) talks shares some Notification Hubs Best Practices for Managing Devices
Greg Duncan delves into the Intel Galileo v2 for IoT scenarios.
Radu Vunvulea provides a great summary of IoT protocols
⚙️ Data and Analytics
Scott Klein highlights Ying, Yang, and a Bang; a Channel 9 show where Brady Gaster discuss the new Azure App Services and Corey Sanders talks about Azure Docker Machine and Swarm
On the Azure blog, Samuel Zhang writes about the latest Azure Data Factory update and the new data stores that have been released
On the Azure blog, Ryan CrawCour highlights the free Microsoft Virtual Academy training focusing on developing solutions with Azure DocumentDB
- On the Revolution Analytics blog, David Smith (@revodavid) writes about deployR 7.4 released
In episode 172 of the cloud cover show, Mat Velloso and Elliott Miller talk about HBase with Maxim Lukiyanov
📦 Storage
On the Azure blog, Aashish Ramdas covers the Azure Backup Announcing of new pricing model for TCO reduction
Marius Sandbu (@msandbu) shares how to set up Azure Site Recovery Preview for Vmware
On TechNet, Theo Browning explains how to solve the issue there is currently a lease on the blob and no lease ID on virtual machine images
Trevor Sullivan (@pcgeek86) talks about using PowerShell to retrieve Azure Storage Blob containers asynchronously
🎬 Media
Adam Gallant interviews Microsoft Azure Media Services expert Ryan Groom
⚙️ Hybrid Integration
⚙️ Identity and Access Management
On the Windows IT Pro site, John Savill explains how to enable Azure AD end user self-service password reset