Azure Weekly

Issue #220 - 14th April 2019

This week, Eduardo Melo has written an insightful article on the Azure blog about How to accelerate DevOps with Machine Learning lifecycle management and Stefan Roth has written a detailed guide around running web tests with App Insights, in the blog Azure Monitor - Application Insights Web Test Query Azure Resource Graph.

Additionally, here are this week's announcements and updates:

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⚙️ AI + Machine Learning

On the Azure blog, Sep Dimeglio (@asksep) writes that Azure AI does that
Also on the Azure blog, Eduardo Melo describes How to accelerate DevOps with Machine Learning lifecycle management
Also on the Azure blog, Francesca Lazzeri (@frlazzeri) writes How do teams work together on an automated machine learning project?
Asma Khalid (@asmak) describes How to connect SQL Server database in Azure Machine Learning Studio
On Channel 9, Neena Kamath (@neenakamath) answers What can I build today with Azure Mixed Reality Services?

🔎 Analytics

On the Azure blog, Parikshit Savjani (@talktosavjani) writes that Bitnami Apache Airflow Multi-Tier now available in Azure Marketplace
The Azure updates team describes how to Set custom metadata properties for Stream Analytics output
On TechNet, Amanda Buchholz highlights the Dive deep into Cloud Scale Analytics: Azure Data Bricks

🖥️ Compute

On the Azure blog, Juergen Thomas writes about Microsoft at SAP Sapphire NOW 2019: A trusted path to cloud innovation
The Azure updates team highlights the General availability: Azure Availability Zones in UK South and provides a Japanese Era Update - April 2019
Antariksh Mistry writes Availability Sets Vs Availability Zones
On Code Project, Nitin Sawant describes Implementing SMS API using Azure Serverless Functions
On MSDN, the Service Fabric Team talks about Service Fabric with Humio Monitoring

🚢 Containers

On the Kloud blog, Nivlesh Chandra provides A scenario-based tutorial for Azure Kubernetes Service – Part 2
Jose Moreno (@erjosito) writes A Day in the Life of a Packet in AKS part 4: NSGs, part 5: Virtual Node and part 6: Network Policy
The Azure updates team writes that Azure Policy for AKS is now in private preview, highlights the General availability: Azure Kubernetes Service in South Central US, Korea South, and Korea Central and highlights that Price reductions for Azure Container Instances are now available
Sam Cogan (@samcogan) describes Locking Down Application Access in AKS
On Code Project, Tuba Mansoor describes Working with Azure Container Instances
On Channel 9, William Morgan and Lachie Evenson present Microservices Day 2: You Have a Service Mesh, Now What

🗄️ Databases

On the Azure blog, Kapil Gupta writes Smarter, faster, safer: Azure SQL Data Warehouse is simply unmatched
Also on the Azure blog, Parul Matah (@ParulMatah) describes How Skype modernized its backend infrastructure using Azure Cosmos DB – Part 1, describes How Skype modernized its backend infrastructure using Azure Cosmos DB – Part 2 and explains How Skype modernized its backend infrastructure using Azure Cosmos DB – Part 3
On the Azure SQL Database blog, Danimir Ljepava (@danimir) writes that the Public endpoint for SQL Database Managed Instance is available as of today
The Azure updates team highlights the Public Preview: Time zone choice for Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
On Channel 9, Lara Rubbelke (@sqlgal) describes how to Deploy WordPress with Azure Database for MariaDB with Andrea Lam
On the MSSQL Tips site, Eduardo Pivaral explains how to Create SQL Server Notebooks in Azure Data Studio

🛠️ Developer Tools

On the Azure blog, Julia White (@julwhite) writes Want to evaluate your cloud analytics provider? Here are the three questions to ask.
On the Kloud blog, Darren Robinson (@darrenjrobinson) describes VSCode Virtual Environments using your Browser
The Azure updates team provides the Azure Stream Analytics tools for Visual Studio April 2019 Update
On MSDN, the Service Fabric Team highlights the Azure Service Fabric 6.4 Refresh Release
On the Visual Studio blog, Mads Kristensen (@mkristensen) writes about the New features for extension authors in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1
On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Brandon Rohrer talks about Configuring Terraform on Windows 10 Linux Sub-System
On the Azure podcast, The Azure podcast team (@AzurePodcast) presents Episode 274 - Reliability Engineering
On Microsoft Cloud Show, Andrew Connell and Chris Johnson (@mscloudshow) present Episode 298 | Weee'rrreee baaack Azure Updates and More
Jon Gallant (@jongallant) describes How to Call the Azure REST APIs with Postman In No Time Flat

🔩 DevOps

On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Anisha Pindoria (@anishapindoria) discusses What's new in Azure DevOps Sprint 149
Also on the Microsoft DevOps blog, Edward Thomson (@ethomson) lists the Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.04.05
The Azure updates team explains how to Manage organization billing in Azure DevOps: Sprint 150 Update and writes about Cloud-based load testing features will be retired on March 31, 2020
On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Anand Guruswamy (@anand_guruswamy) writes that Analytics For Azure DevOps Services is Now Generally Available
Also on the Microsoft DevOps blog, Erin Dormier writes about the April Security Release: Patches available for Azure DevOps Server 2019, TFS 2018.3.2, TFS 2018.1.2, TFS 2017.3.1, and the release of TFS 2015.4.2
On Microsoft + Open Source, Matt Cooper (@vtbassmatt) delves into Publishing GitHub Pages from Azure Pipelines
On Channel 9, Abel Wang (@AbelSquidHead) describes Using the new Basic Process in Azure DevOps with Dan Hellem
Rahul Nath (@rahulpnath) blogs about Code Signing MSI Installer and DLLs in Azure DevOps
Simon Foster (@funkysi1701) explains how to set up a Gated Release
Tobias Zimmergren writes about Azure DevOps (VSTS) - The current operating system is not capable of running this task, with "Azure File Copy"

🎭 Identity

The Azure updates team writes about Home realm discovery during sign-in for Microsoft 365 services and writes about More sign-in options for Microsoft accounts in Microsoft 365

🔌 Integration

On Channel 9, Chris Segura (@IoTHybridCloud) talks about Using Ethereum Logic Apps to monitor SQL server databases Block Talk
On the Codit blog, Tom Kerkhove (@TomKerkhove) writes about the New Azure Logic Apps Template for Handling Azure Monitor Metric Alerts
On the Serverless360 blog, Kent Weare (@wearsy) covers Testing Azure Logic Apps with Mock Data
Also on the Serverless360 blog, Sean Feldman (@sfeldman) writes Azure Messaging Crossroads
The Azure updates team writes that Logic Apps is now available in US Gov Virginia region

💡 Internet of Things

On the Azure blog, Koichi Hirao talks about Expanding Azure IoT certification service to support Azure IoT Edge devices
Also on the Azure blog, Diego Tamburini writes about Leveraging AI and digital twins to transform manufacturing with Sight Machine
The Azure updates team writes that the Update 19.04 for Azure Sphere public preview now available for evaluation
On the Premier Developer blog, Greg Roe covers Designing IoT Applications for Failure: Cloud Design Patterns that leverage the Retry Pattern
On Channel 9, Olivier Bloch (@obloch) talks about Redis Edge On Azure IoT Edge with Andre Srinivasan

⚖️ Management and Governance

On the Azure blog, Stephen Baron describes How to stay informed about Azure service issues
Also on the Azure blog, Kaitlyn Corazao describes How to stay on top of Azure best practices
On the Premier Developer blog, Ben Hlaban (@benhlaban) writes about Azure Automation DSC via ARM Template
Stefan Roth (@stefanroth_net) blogs about Azure Monitor – Application Insights Web Test Query Azure Resource Graph
The Azure updates team highlights the General Availability: Azure Group Targeting for Azure Update Management

🎬 Media

Kay Singh (@singhkays) describes how to Detect rolling credits with Azure Video Indexer

⚙️ Microsoft Azure Stack

On the Azure blog, David Armour (@Darmour_MSFT) writes Azure Stack IaaS – part seven

🚌 Migration

The Azure updates team highlights that Azure Data Box Disk now available in Japan and Korea
On TechNet, George Grammatikos writes about Moving On-Premise Workloads to Azure by George Grammatikos

📱 Mobile

On the .NET Curry blog, Gerald Versluis (@jfversluis) talks about Working with Barcodes in Xamarin.Forms
On the Xamarin blog, James Montemagno (@JamesMontemagno) describes Sharing Files & Email Attachments with Xamarin.Essentials Preview Features
Also on the Xamarin blog, Jon Douglas (@_JonDouglas) walks through Getting Started With WorkManager

🌐 Networking

the Azure updates team writes that Preview of Azure virtual network service endpoint policies expanded to four new regions
Michael Crump (@mbcrump) posts Tip 192 - Getting started with Azure Front Door

🔐 Security

On the Azure blog, Yaniv Zohar writes that Azure Security Center exposes crypto miner campaign
On the Premier Developer blog, Tina Saulsberry writes Compliance, Auditors, and Documentation Oh My!

📦 Storage

On the Azure blog, Jeff Tabor writes that Hybrid storage performance comes to Azure
The Azure updates team highlights the AzCopy Preview now supports Amazon Web Services S3 as a data source
On the MSSQL Tips site, John Miner (@JohnMiner3) writes about What's new in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

🔗 Web

On the Azure blog, Calvin Keaton and Nitasha Verma introduce the App Service Migration Assistant for ASP.NET applications
On the Planet Geek blog, Daniel Marbach (@danielmarbach) provides an Introduction into managing Application Secrets in Azure AppConfiguration Service with .NET Core and describes Managing Application Secrets in Azure App Configuration Service with .NET Core Code Walkthrough
Henry Been (@henry_been) explains how to Add a SSL certificate to your Azure Web App using an ARM template revisited
On the Kloud blog, Lucian Franghiu (@lucianfrango) blogs about Quality of life user experience improvements to SharePoint Online though the use of 301 redirects and Azure App Service
The Azure updates team provides an Azure API Management update April 4 and highlights that Classic API Management Analytics will be retired on May 31, 2019