Azure Weekly
Issue #261 - 9th February 2020
A few highlighted announcements from Azure this week: we've been told that the Backup Explorer is now available in preview, that Azure API Management now supports integration with Azure App Service and that OpenAPI v3 support in Azure API Management is now generally available.
Elsewhere this week, Ed Elliott has written about Passing status messages and results back from Databricks to ADF, Dimitri Furman has described Compute-optimized Fsv2 hardware in Azure SQL Database and Mark Russinovich has spoken about Advancing safe deployment practices.
Last week, a number of endjineers attended NDC London, which was a great success with many fascinating sessions. We've distilled all of our experiences into a number of blogs, for example, Jon George has written about dangerous AI, microservices, diagnostics and Blazor in his overview of day 1, whilst Ian and Carmel have also provided their takes on the day.
Finally, Carmel has written a brilliant, brave, thought-provoking blog post about her experiences with mental health and managing the challenges of remote working. It is well worth a read, whether or not you work from home.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- The Azure updates team writes about the Custom Translator—January 2020 improvements and language models update
- Anand Kumar R (@ranand12) presents Episode #12 – Phil Coachman – Principal Data scientist demystifies “Data Science”, the future of Data Science and a really cool ML project
🔎 Analytics
- Ed Elliott (@EdDebug) walks through Passing status messages and results back from Databricks to ADF
- On the MSSQL Tips site, Koen Verbeeck (@Ko_Ver) provides an Azure Data Factory Multiple File Load Example - Part 2
- The Azure updates team blogs about Azure Stream Analytics—Machine learning–based anomaly detection functions
⚙️ Blockchain
- The Azure updates team posts a few updates: Azure Cloud and Direct Billing Are Now Generally Available in Kaleido's Blockchain Platform, Hyperledger Fabric on Azure Kubernetes Service is now in preview and Azure Blockchain development kit for Ethereum is now generally available
- On Channel 9, Chris Segura (@IoTHybridCloud) describes how to Increase your productivity with blockchain data manager Block Talk
🖥️ Compute
- Jason Roberts (@robertsjason) describes Refactoring an Azure Functions App to use Function Monkey and describes Writing Azure Functions with Function Monkey: Dependency Injection
- The Azure updates team highlights the Azure Service Fabric 7.0 Second Refresh Release, writes that New AMD-based Dav4 and Eav4 Azure VMs are available in additional regions and highlights that HBv2-Series VMs are now Generally Available
- Mohit Gupta (@MohitGu48372760) provides code for an Azure Function App for Encryption and DeCryption using PGPCore
🚢 Containers
- Jen Stirrup (@jenstirrup) provides a Container Security heads-up: Microsoft Container Registry changes
- Richard Hooper (@Pixel_Robots) provides an Overview of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Diagnostics
- Sam Cogan (@samcogan) posts Azure Spring Clean: Azure Policy for AKS
- Dave Rendón blogs about Azure DevOps: Automate your release pipeline to provision a Docker container to Azure Web App for containers and describes Monitoring containers using Windows Admin Center
- On Code Project, Tiago Cavalcante Trindade talks about Linux on Windows
🗄️ Databases
- The Azure updates team writes that the Spring Data Azure Cosmos DB SDK 2.2.2 release is now generally available
- Greg Low (@greglow) discusses SDU Tools: Version 18 shipped and adds support for Azure SQL Database
- On the Azure SQL Database blog, Dimitri Furman (@DimitriFurman) writes about Compute-optimized Fsv2 hardware in Azure SQL Database
- Also on the Azure SQL Database blog, Davide Mauri (@mauridb) talks about Autoscaling Azure SQL Hyperscale
- Michael Crump (@mbcrump) posts Tip 244 - How to user PowerShell in Azure Data Studio
🛠️ Developer Tools
- Jakob Ehn (@jakobehn) describes How Visual Studio 2019 supports containerized applications
- On the DEV site, Michael Crump (@mbcrump) writes about a Colorful Git Prompt for Azure Cloud Shell and Visual Studio Code
- On Channel 9, Seth Juarez (@sethjuarez) talks about Jupyter Notebooks in Visual Studio Code with Jeffrey Mew
- Sarah Lean (@TechieLass) blogs about Azure Terminology
- On the Whizlabs blog, Neeru Jain provides a Microsoft Azure Cheat Sheet
- On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Matt Johnson-Pint (@mj1856) writes It's 2020. Is your code ready for leap day?
- Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) blogs about Azure Tools - Azure Cloud Explorer
🔩 DevOps
- On the Azure blog, Mark Russinovich (@markrussinovich) writes about Advancing safe deployment practices
- The Azure updates team explains how to Enable managed identities on lab virtual machines in Azure DevTest Labs
- Barbara Forbes (@Ba4bes) explains how to Manage Azure DevOps user licenses with PowerShell
- Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) talks with Jeffrey Opdam on Azure DevOps with AWS - Episode 74
- On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) explains how to Create a Dashboard without a Team in Azure DevOps
- Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) writes about Hosting your own NuGet Server and Feed for build artifacts with BaGet
- Adam Bertram (@adbertram) explains How to Build an Azure DevOps Pipeline for a PowerShell Module and explains how to Publish NuGet Packages to Azure Artifacts Automagically
🎭 Identity
- Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) explains how to Deploy Azure AD Domain Service and Join a Server to the Domain
- Roelf Zomerman writes that Even strong passwords are... stupid - Part 2 - FIDO2
🔌 Integration
- On the Codit blog, Tom Kerkhove (@TomKerkhove) explains How Azure Event Grid is different from logs, alerts, change feeds and webhooks
- On the Serverless360 blog, Sandro Pereira (@sandro_asp) describes How to access a property value of repeating object in a JSON message
💡 Internet of Things
- The Azure updates team writes that Azure Sphere Update 20.01 public preview now available, that Azure Event Grid on Azure IoT Edge preview 2 is now available and highlights the New IoT Central Pricing Plans
- On Channel 9, Olivier Bloch (@obloch) describes how to Use Audio on the Vision AI DevKit with Kevin Saye
⚖️ Management and Governance
- On the Azure blog, Aditya Balaji highlights that the Backup Explorer now available in preview
- The Azure updates team highlights a number of updates: Azure Blueprint for FedRAMP High now available in new regions, FastTrack for Azure is now generally available in Japan, FastTrack for Azure is now generally available in Asia Pacific regions and Azure Backup now supports selective disk backup and restore using Azure Virtual machine backup solution
- Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) explains how to Prevent Azure Resources from unexpected deletion using Locks
- Stefan Roth (@stefanroth_net) discusses Azure Policy – Audit and Deploy CanNotDelete Lock on Resource Group Based on Tags
- Tobias Zimmergren & Jussi Roine (@CtrlAltAzure) present Episode 15 - A brief overview of Application Insights
- On Code Project, Owen Davies (@OwenDavies) talks about Setting Up Web Endpoint Monitoring in Azure
🚌 Migration
- Nicolas Bonnet (@nico_bonnet) writes about Azure Migrate
🌐 Networking
- The Azure updates team highlights that Azure DNS private zones is now available in Azure Government and Azure China
🔐 Security
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) talks about What's New In System Center 2019 Data Protection Manager Update Rollup 1 and writes that the Update Rollup 1 for System Center 2019 is Now Available SystemCenter SysCtr
📦 Storage
- On the Check your Logs blog, Rick Vanover (@RickVanover) writes about Nomenclature for Azure Storage Accounts
- Jon Gallant (@jongallant) describes how to Use HTTPS and DefaultAzureCredential with Azurite for Local Azure Storage Emulation, and writes about How to Upload Blobs to Azure Storage from an Azure Function with Azure Managed Identities (Part 1), How to Upload Blobs to Azure Storage from an Azure Function with Azure Managed Identities (Part 2) and How to Upload Blobs to Azure Storage from an Azure Function with Azure Managed Identities (Part 3)
🔗 Web
- The Azure updates team writes that Azure API Management now supports integration with Azure App Service and writes that OpenAPI v3 support in Azure API Management is now generally available
- Callon Campbell (@flying_maverick) provides an Introduction to Azure App Configuration