Azure Weekly

Issue #262 - 16th February 2020

Welcome to the 262nd edition of Azure Weekly! And for those of you in the UK, hope you have some great half term plans! This week the Azure Updates team have announced that private endpoints for Azure Key Vault are now in preview, and Callon Campbell has highlighted that Azure Apps Demo Map is now live - this is a great resource for exploring lots of interesting cloud architectures!

Jason Roberts continues his series on Azure Functions and Function Monkey, looking at Dependency Injection & Validation. There's also a great episode of Azure Friday which focuses on an Intro to Rudr: A Kubernetes Implementation of the Open Application Model. Dapr, Rudr, OAM and CNAB are particular areas of interest at endjin at the moment.

This week Carmel and Jess appeared on the .NET Rocks! podcast to talk about Combating Illegal Fishing using Machine Learning, they discussed our recent work with OceanMind where we enabled them to make use of cloud technologies to have an even greater global impact. Definitely give it a listen if you get the chance!

James Broome has also written a blog on Azure Analysis Services: How to open a connection from .NET, and Ed Freeman has provided a great write-up of his experience at NDC London 2020.

⚙️ AI + Machine Learning

On .NET Rocks, Richard Campbell, Carl Franklin and our own Carmel Eve and Jess Panni discuss Combating Illegal Fishing using Machine Learning
On Channel 9, Seth Juarez (@sethjuarez) brings us An Intuitive Approach to Machine Learning Models Part 1 of 4
The Azure updates team announces New types added to Named Entity Recognition v3 (Azure Cognitive Services) and that Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics sentiment analysis v3 now supports Korean

🔎 Analytics

The Azure updates team announces that Data Factory adds schema import, connection tests, and custom sink ordering to data flows, that Azure Stream Analytics—MATCHRECOGNIZE function is now available and Compatibility level 1.2 for Azure Stream Analytics jobs is now available
On the endjin blog, James Broome (@broomej) covers Azure Analysis Services: How to open a connection from .NET

🖥️ Compute

Jason Roberts (@robertsjason) walks through Writing Azure Functions with Function Monkey: Dependency Injection and Validation
Mikhail Shilkov (@MikhailShilkov) describes Hosting Azure Functions in Google Cloud Run
On Code Project, Jeremy Likness discusses how to Use Azure Functions to process a CSV File and import data into Azure SQL
Also on Code Project, Steffen Ploetz describes The next logical step using Azure Functions - how to integrate a native DLL via P/Invoke
Mark Heath (@mark_heath) describes Using Azure Functions Durable HTTP APIs
Tobias Zimmergren (@zimmergren) describes how to Re-use service instances by Implementing Dependency Injection in Azure Functions

🚢 Containers

The Azure updates team announces the need to Update servers and applications to TLS 1.2 by March 13, 2020
On the DEV site, Chris Noring (@chris_noring) describes How you can learn Docker from the beginning. Covers docker-compose, volumes, databases, in the Cloud and much more...
On Channel 9, Mackenzie Olson and Sudhanva Huruli give us an Intro to Rudr: A Kubernetes Implementation of the Open Application Model Azure Friday
Tobias Zimmergren (@zimmergren) writes about Best Practices for security in Azure Container Registry

🗄️ Databases

The Azure updates team announces New Azure SQL Database automatic tuning default settings
On channel 9, Matias Quaranta talks about the Lesser known features of the Cosmos DB SDK for .NET
On the SQL Server Blog, Alan Yu (@AlanYuSQL) highlights that The February 2020 release of Azure Data Studio is now available
On Channel 9, Jeroen Ter Heerdt helps us Learn how to create your first SQL Notebook
On the Azure blog, John 'jg' Chirapurath states that SQL Server runs best on Azure. Heres why.

🛠️ Developer Tools

On the DEV site, Michael Crump (@mbcrump) asks: What are Azure CLI Extensions?
On Channel 9, Aaron Powell (@slace) talks about VS Code Integration with GitHub and Azure
Barbara Forbes (@Ba4bes) walks through Creating an Azure PowerShell Function with Visual studio Code

🔩 DevOps

On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) explains How to change the Azure DevOps Projects Process
Rahul Nath (@rahulpnath) covers an Azure DevOps Build Release Pipeline For Create React App
The Azure updates team announces that the New Azure DevOps features include improved Azure Pipelines security with read-only variables
On Channel 9, April Edwards talks about Terraform and Azure DevOps – Delivering a continuous and automated deployment
On the Microsoft blog, Itay Podhajcer discusses Using Azure Pipelines to Generate a .NET Package from a Solidity Contract's ABI

🧬 Hybrid

On the MSSQL Tips site, John Miner (@JohnMiner3) writes about the General Purpose Tier for Azure SQL Database
The Azure updates team announces Kubernetes on Azure Stack in GA and Azure Backup now supports Windows Server 2008 Virtual Machine backup

🎭 Identity

The Azure updates team announces that Native Azure Active Directory authentication support and Azure VPN Client is now available
Nicolas Bonnet (@nico_bonnet) covers how to Use FIDO2 key with AAD
Robert Smit (@Clustermvp) gives us a Step by Step on Azure Active Directory Azure AD Connect Cloud Provisioning
On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Andreas Helland walks through Generating Azure AD Look-Alike Tokens

🔌 Integration

The Azure updates team highlights Azure Service Fabric 7.0 third refresh release
On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Stephane Eyskens (@stephaneeyskens) covers KEDA and AKS Experiments

💡 Internet of Things

On the Azure podcast, Avon Gonzales covers Azure Sphere
On Channel 9, Ranga Vadlamudi talks about Expanding Azure IoT Central portfolio with IoT Edge
Also on Channel 9, Mahesh Yadav talks about Deploying Models with Vision AI DevKit
On Code Project, Chris Gannon blogs about CloudCooker - an IoT Temperature Controller

⚖️ Management and Governance

The Azure updates team announces that Azure Resource Manager template support for NSG flow logs and Introduces the new Azure Monitor Log Analytics table pane Schema
On his blog, Sam Cogan (@samcogan) describes Deploying ARM Templates with Terraform
Also on the Microsoft blog, Marius Rochon gives an example of using PowerShell to upload IEF policies to multiple B2C tenants
On zdnet, Liam Tung describes how the new 'gh' command-line interface makes you more productive on Microsoft's GitHub
On medium, Mohit Gupta (@MohitGu48372760) gives us an ARM template sample for Logic Apps
Also on his blog, Michael Levan gives us a hands on tutorial on Getting Started with GitHub Actions and Terraform
Callon Campbell (@flying_maverick) gives us an Introduction to Azure App Configuration
Adam Bertram (@adbertram) explains How to Apply DSC Configurations to VMs in Azure ARM Templates
On the Azure blog, Tad Brockway (@tadbrockway) announces the preview of Azure Shared Disks for clustered applications
On the Premier Developer blog, Nathan Vanderby explains how to do Centralized VM Certificate Deployment Across Multiple Regions with ARM Templates
Gregor Suttie (@gregor_suttie) describes AzureCharts.com
Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) describes How to get better price of Azure resources for DEV and TEST environments
On the Premier Developer blog, Bryan Soltis (@bryan_soltis) discusses Adding Tags to New Resources with Azure PowerShell
Callon Campbell (@flying_maverick) highlights that Azure Apps Demo Map is now live

🚌 Migration

Tobias Zimmergren & Jussi Roine (@CtrlAltAzure) writes about Migrating SQL Server databases to Azure SQL

🌐 Networking

David O'Brien (@david_obrien) describes using Azure Front Door to Support Deployments
Deepak Kaushik (@ThinkForDeepak) explains how to Build Your Enterprise Azure Network Foundation

🔐 Security

Thuan Nguyen blogs about how to Export virtual machines with ASC monitoring agent issue and explains how to Add custom Azure Policy to Azure Security Center Recommendation
The Azure updates team announces Azure Key Vault—Private endpoints now available in preview
On the Premier Developer blog, Marius Rochon writes about Unseen secrets – using KeyVault to protect OAuth2 token requests

📦 Storage

On Code Project, Owen Davies (@OwenDavies) talks about Crossdomain.xml inside Root of Blob Storage

💻 Windows Virtual Desktop

Roelf Zomerman explains how to do Delegated Windows Virtual Desktop Deployment
Christiaan Brinkhoff (@Brinkhoff_C) explains How to Migrate from UPD to FSLogix Profile Container Profiles to Windows Virtual Desktop and talks about how to Accelerate your Windows Virtual Desktop migration with Azure Migrate with Lakeside