Azure Weekly
Issue #239 - 25th August 2019
This week, we've seen the GA of a few different services/features; two of which are the general availability of Python support in Azure Functions (i.e. it's now ready for your production workloads!), and the general availability of SQL Data Discovery & Classification, a feature used for the discovery, classification, labeling & the protecting of sensitive data in your Azure SQL databases and warehouses. Elsewhere, Jason Roberts has written part 8 of his Durable Functions series, where he talks about the Fan Out/Fan In Pattern, and Daniele Polencic has written a detailed blog on Getting started with Terraform and Kubernetes on AKS.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- On the Azure podcast, The Azure podcast team (@AzurePodcast) presents Episode 293 - ONNX Runtime with Faith Xu
- On Channel 9, Seth Juarez (@sethjuarez) describes how to Bring Anomaly Detector on-premises with containers support with Qun Ying
🔎 Analytics
- On the MSSQL Tips site, Fikrat Azizov provides an Azure Data Factory Control Flow Activities Overview
- The Azure updates team highlights the New Quick Action Transformations Added to Data Factory Mapping Data Flows
- Adam Marczak (@MarczakIO) provides an Azure Databricks Intro
🖥️ Compute
- On the Azure blog, Daria Grigoriu (@DariaGrigoriu) announces the general availability of Python support in Azure Functions
- The Azure updates team writes that the Azure Function Consumption plan for Linux is now generally available
- Jason Roberts (@robertsjason) writes Understanding Azure Durable Functions - Part 7: The Function Chaining Pattern and Part 8: The Fan Out/Fan In Pattern
- On Channel 9, Donovan Brown (@DonovanBrown) provides An introduction to Azure Dedicated Hosts with Ziv Rafalovich
- On the Serverless360 blog, The serverless360 team summarizes Azure Functions Live – August 2019
🚢 Containers
- The Azure updates team talks about Egress lockdown in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now generally available
- Mark Heath (@mark_heath) describes how to Run Azure Functions in Kubernetes with KEDA
- Richard Seroter (@rseroter) blogs about Building an Azure-powered Concourse pipeline for Kubernetes – Part 1: Setup, Part 2: Packaging and containerizing code and Part 3: Deploying containers to Kubernetes
- James van den Berg (@JamesvandenBerg) talks about Installing and Maintaining Azure Kubernetes Service Cluster
- On the learnk8s blog, Daniele Polencic (@danielepolencic) describes Getting started with Terraform and Kubernetes on Azure AKS
🗄️ Databases
- Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) describes Scaling dimensions inside Azure CosmosDB
- The Azure updates team provides a few updates: Global trace flags are now available in Azure SQL Database Managed Instance, Same region read replica is now available for Azure Database for MariaDB and Azure SQL provides a unified management experience
- On the Azure SQL Database blog, Michal Bar announces the General Availability of SQL Data Discovery & Classification
- Also on the Azure SQL Database blog, Ninar Nuemah (@NinarNuemah) writes about the Unified Azure SQL experience
- Meagan Longoria (@mmarie) writes about the New Centralized View of SQL Resources in Azure
- On Channel 9, Colin Murphy and Ninar Nuemah talk about the Azure SQL unified Azure portal experience
- On the Azure SQL Database blog, Jovan Popovic (@jocapc) describes how to Track unauthorized backups using Azure SQL Managed Instance Audits
- James Serra (@JamesSerra) writes about the New product: Azure Data Share
- Kumar Allamraju (@kumarallamraju) posts Tip 219 - Open Source RDBMS Databases in Azure
🛠️ Developer Tools
- The Azure updates team writes about the New Azure Blockchain SDK updates with Truffle
- On Channel 9, Cale Teeter and Chris Segura describes how to Interact With Your Smart Contracts with New Drizzle-based Functionality in the Azure Blockchain Development Kit
- On the Visual Studio blog, John Miller (@jmillerdev) explains how to Make games with Visual Studio for Mac and Unity
- Also on the Visual Studio blog, Mark Downie (@poppastring) explains how to Find solutions faster by analyzing crash dumps in Visual Studio
- Also on the Visual Studio blog, Ruben Rios (@rub8n) covers The PowerShell you know and love now with a side of Visual Studio
- Also on the Visual Studio blog, Taysser Gherfal (@taysser) walks through Getting Started with GitHub Actions in Visual Studio
- On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Stephane Eyskens (@stephaneeyskens) provides The Cloud-native Azure Application Architect Map
- Michael Crump (@mbcrump) posts Tip 218 - Build and deploy your first app with the Azure SDK for Java on Azure
- Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) explains How to pick the right Azure Exam Certification Path
🔩 DevOps
- On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Anisha Pindoria (@anishapindoria) talks about What's new in Azure DevOps Sprint 156 with Marina Lukoshko
- Also on the Microsoft DevOps blog, Aram Maliachi writes about Understanding delta file changes and merge conflicts in Git pull requests
- Also on the Microsoft DevOps blog, Karthik RG announces the Azure Repos app for Slack
- Also on the Microsoft DevOps blog, Sasha Rosenbaum (@DivineOps) lists the Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.08.16
- On the Premier Developer blog, Aditya Bajaj explains how to Prevent reopening work item once closed Azure DevOps (with Video)
- Aidan Finn (@joe_elway) writes about The Secret Sauce That Devs Dont Want IT Pros to Know About
- Also on the Microsoft DevOps blog, Erin Dormier writes Now available: Azure DevOps Server 2019 Update 1 RTW
- Stefan Roth (@stefanroth_net) writes about Azure DevOps – Commit URL on Azure Resource Tag Part 1 and Part 2
- On TechNet, Jayendran Arumugam (@Jayendran_A) writes about AzureDevOps: CICD for PowerBI Reports
🎭 Identity
- On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) provides An introduction to decentralized identities with Danny Strockis
- The Azure updates team highlights the General availability of user-assigned managed identities for App Service and Azure Functions and highlights the General availablility of Managed Identity for Linux in App Service and Functions
🔌 Integration
- On the Azure blog, Skyler Hartle (@skylerhartle) describes Reducing SAP implementations from months to minutes with Azure Logic Apps
- On the Perficient blog, Jennifer Gyles-Bedford blogs about Working with Dynamics 365 Date and Time Fields in Logic Apps
- Adam Marczak (@MarczakIO) describes Enhancing Logic Apps security with obfuscation
- Mark Brimble (@BrimbleMark) writes about Excel files – Azure and BizTalk Server
- On the Serverless360 blog, Priya Latha describes how to Search Logic Apps Run or Trigger History
💡 Internet of Things
- On the Azure blog, Chris Green announces that IoT Plug and Play is now available in preview
- Also on the Azure blog, Ed Nightingale talks about Azure Sphere's customized Linux-based OS
⚖️ Management and Governance
- On the Azure blog, Michael Greene (@migreene) writes about the Preview of custom content in Azure Policy guest configuration
- Matthew Soucoup (@CodeMillMatt) explains how to Stop Entering Your GitHub Credentials In Azure Cloud Shell!
- The Azure updates team highlights the Azure portal August 2019 feature update and describes how to Help protect large data disks Azure Site Recovery
- Stanislav Zhelyazkov (@StanZhelyazkov) writes Azure Monitor Alert Series – Part 2
⚙️ Microsoft Azure Stack
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) writes about Running Azure Stack HCI With Nested Resiliency On DELL EMC Ready Nodes
🚌 Migration
- On the Azure blog, Hanaa Musa describes how to Plan migration of your Hyper-V servers using Azure Migrate Server Assessment
- On the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, Ben Stegink and Scott Hoag (@msclouditpro) present Episode 139 – Azure Migrate v2
- On Channel 9, Olivier Bloch (@obloch) talks about Azure Data Box Edge with Piyush
📱 Mobile
- On Channel 9, James Montemagno (@JamesMontemagno) talks about the XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms Preview with Pierce Boggan
🌐 Networking
- The Azure updates team writes that Just-in-time JIT VM access for Azure Firewall is now generally available
🔐 Security
- On the Azure blog, Miri Landau and Rotem Lurie write that Azure Security Center single click remediation and Azure Firewall JIT support
- On the Azure blog, Sachin Ghorpade and Rohit Kumar Cherukuri blog about IRAP protected compliance from infra to SAP application layer on Azure
- the Azure updates team covers Security Center now has single click remediation to boost your security posture (in preview)
📦 Storage
- Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) covers Azure Storage tiers and availability
- On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Xin Huang writes about the Azure Archive Storage expanded capabilities: faster, simpler, better
- The Azure updates team writes about the New Copy APIs for efficient data copy in Azure Blob Storage
- Kumar Allamraju (@kumarallamraju) posts Tip 220 - Move your data from AWS S3 to Azure Blob Storage using AzCopy
🔗 Web
- The Azure updates team highlights the pricing decrease for Azure App Service on the Premium plan