Azure Weekly

Issue #297 - 25th October 2020

This week, Jen Looper discusses how Azure Maps is providing an alternative form of Halloween celebrations, as an alternative to the normal trick-or-treating.

And, particularly exciting for us at endjin, there is a new Microsoft Stories podcast, this week focusing on OceanMind! We feel very priveliged to have been a part of OceanMind's cloud migration journey, and the podcast is definitely worth a listen.

Continuing the exciting blob storage updates, the updates team have announced that Azure Blob storage lifecycle management now supports blob versions management, and in security, Azure role-based access control RBAC for Azure Key Vault data plane authorization is now in preview.

And, on the endjin blog, Ed Freeman has run through how to fix the "You need permission to access workspace..". error in Azure Synapse Analytics, and on our YouTube channel, Ian Griffiths discusses Data Exploration & Experimentation with Notebooks in Azure.

⚙️ AI + Machine Learning

On the Microsoft site, a reporter discusses how Wayve uses Microsoft Azure to scale AI-based autonomous driving technology
On Channel 9, Emma Ning talks about Faster and Lighter Model Inference with ONNX Runtime from Cloud to Client
Also on Channel 9, Dmytro Dzhulgakov (@dzhulgakov) discusses how to Get Started with PyTorch
On the DEV site, Jay Gordon (@jaydestro) discusses AI on Azure
The Azure updates team announces that Canadian French language text translation now available in Azure Cognitive Services Translator
Jame Maguire describes Building an Instagram Analytics Web App using .NET Core and Azure AI
Damien Bowden (@damien_bod) explains how to Implement a full text search using Azure Cognitive Search in ASP.NET Core
On Azure Medium, Aaron Bornstein walks through Configuring Native Azure ML Logging with PyTorch Lighting

🔎 Analytics

On the endjin blog, Ed Freeman (@edfreeman_) explains How to fix the "You need permission to access workspace..". error in Azure Synapse Analytics
On the endjin YouTube channel, Ian Griffiths (@idg10) discusses Data Exploration & Experimentation with Notebooks in Azure
James Serra (@JamesSerra) lists the Top Azure Synapse Analytics and Power BI questions
On the Azure blog, John Macintyre walks through Samples in Azure Synapse Analytics
On the DEV site, Davide Mauri (@mauridb) blogs about Serverless Streaming At Scale with Azure SQL
On SQL Server Central, Ryan Kennedy covers Orchestrating Azure Databricks Notebooks with Azure Data Factory
On the Microsoft site, a reporter provides Microsoft Stories podcast: Episode 4 – OceanMind
On Azure Medium, Inderjit Rana discusses Azure Databricks Workload Types — Data Analytics, Data Engineering and Data Engineering Light Clusters

🖥️ Compute

On Code Project, Duncan Edwards Jones (@Merrion) describes Event Sourcing on Azure Functions
On Azure Tips and Tricks, Michael Crump (@mbcrump) discusses Creating a private video conferencing service with Jitsi on a Microsoft Azure VM

🚢 Containers

Thomas Stringer describes how to Run Kubernetes in Azure the Cheap Way
Daniel Neumann (@neumanndaniel) discusses Azure Policy for Azure Kubernetes Service
Jeff Hollan (@jeffhollan) discusses Event Driven applications on Kubernetes with KEDA
On Azure Medium, Itay Podhajcer (@ItayPodhajcer) discusses Load Balancing Azure Container Instances with Envoy
Also on Azure Medium, Sumeet Kumar discusses Understanding Kubernetes Networking — Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4

🗄️ Databases

The Azure updates team announces that Zone redundant configuration for Azure SQL DB general purpose tier is in public preview
On the MSSQL Tips site, Haroon Ashraf talks about SQL Database Project with SQL Server Data Tools and GIT
On Azure Tips and Tricks, Michael Crump (@mbcrump) explains How to Configure Advanced Threat Protection in Azure SQL Database and lists 5 Things you didn't know about Azure SQL Database

🛠️ Developer Tools

On Azure Tips and Tricks, Michael Crump (@mbcrump) does A Lap around the new Azure VM Extension for VS Code

🔩 DevOps

Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) talks with Rod Paddock on the New Normal
On the MSSQL Tips site, Ron L'Esteve covers Securing Secrets in Azure DevOps
On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Abel Wang (@abelsquidhead) discusses: What is infrastructure as code?
Also on the Microsoft DevOps blog, Steven Murawski (@StevenMurawski) lists the Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community
On Channel 9, Michael Levan talks about GitHub for Your Octopus Deploy
On the DEV site, Kat Cosgrove (@Dixie3Flatline) discusses JFrog and Azure
Marcel Zehner (@marcelzehner) discusses ARM Templates - Deployment Scripts

🧬 Hybrid

Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) describes How to create Azure Hybrid Cloud Architectures and highlights a Azure Stack Hub Partner Solutions Series – Salt
On Channel 9, Tolga Tekin and Anna Hoffman explain How to Deploy Azure Arc Data Services Anywhere
Also on Channel 9, Dipti Pai talks about how to Bring compute, storage, and intelligence to the edge with Azure Stack Edge
On the Azure blog, Bill Karagounis introduces The Microsoft Azure Modular Datacenter

🎭 Identity

Damien Bowden (@damien_bod) walks through Using encrypted access tokens in Azure with Microsoft.Identity.Web and Azure App registrations
The Azure updates team announces that Azure role-based access control RBAC for Azure Key Vault data plane authorization is now in preview
On Azure Tips and Tricks, Michael Crump (@mbcrump) discusses How to secure a Blazor application with Azure Active Directory
On Azure Medium, Inderjit Rana walks through how to Access Azure SQL Always Encrypted Data in Power BI Reports or Azure Data Factory using Managed Identity and ODBC

🔌 Integration

On BizTalk Gurus, Sandro Pereira (@sandro_asp) asks: What do I need to do to start developing stateful or stateless workflows using Azure Logic Apps? (Part 1)
The Azure updates team announces that Azure Key Vault Event Grid integration is now available

💡 Internet of Things

On Channel 9, Beau Hayes-Pollard (@bahburs) discusses "Not your usual High School project"
On the DEV site, Jen Looper (@jenlooper) discusses: Saving Halloween 2020 with Azure Maps and Candy Caches
On the Azure blog, Eustace Asanghanwa walks through Solving IoT device security at scale through standards

📚 Learning

On the Whizlabs blog, Neeru Jain provides a DP-300 Exam Preparation Guide (Administering Relational Databases on Microsoft Azure)
Adam Marczak (@MarczakIO) continues his learning path for Az-900, covering Azure Security Center and usage scenarios and Azure Key Vault - Keys, Secrets & Certificates

⚖️ Management and Governance

The Azure updates team highlights that the Log Analytics Linux Agent for Fall 2020 now available
On the DEV site, Chris Noring (@chris_noring) blogs about Managing your Cloud resources with ARM templates
The Azure updates team announces that Microsoft plans to establish new cloud datacenter region in Austria
The Azure updates team provides the Azure Site Recovery update rollup for October 2020
On the Azure podcast, Diego Viso talks about Azure Time Series Insights
On the DragonSpears blog, John Reiner explains how to Achieve Multi-Tenancy with Database Sharding and Azure Elastic Scale
Antti K. Koskela (@koskila) explains How to configure Azure Functions startup

🚌 Migration

Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) covers some Azure Architecture Best Practices
Tobias Zimmergren & Jussi Roine (@CtrlAltAzure) discuss Recommendations if we started working with Azure today
On The Azure Podcast, Asir Selvasingh introduces Azure Spring Cloud

📱 Mobile

On the DEV site, Nitya Narasimhan writes: AMA & AllThingsOpen - Let's Talk Mobile Dev!
Also on the DEV site, Aaron Powell (@slace) walks through Building a Video Chat App, Part 2 - Accessing Cameras

🌐 Networking

The Azure updates team announces that Multiple new features for Azure VPN Gateway are now in public preview
On Hackernoon, Spiros Dimopoulos (@spirosdm) provides an In-Depth Guide to Connecting your AWS and Microsoft Azure Virtual Private Networks (VPN)

🔐 Security

The Azure updates team announces that Azure Policy for Key Vault now supports keys, secrets, and certificates
Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) covers hoe to Implement and Manage Azure Sentinel Effectively and lists the Top Best Practices for Deploying Azure Sentinel
On Microsoft + Open Source, Aaron M. Schifman explains How to deploy Elastic Cloud on Microsoft Azure
On the DEV site, Justin Yoo (@justinchronicle) covers Binding Let's Encrypt SSL Certificate to Azure Functions
Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) explains why you should Keep your cloud secrets away from the source control repo

📦 Storage

On the Check your Logs blog, Cary Sun (@SifuSun) describes How to Install Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure 1.0
The Azure updates team announces the Fluent Bit connector for Azure Storage to support Azure Data Explorer streaming and that Azure Blob storage lifecycle management now supports blob versions management
Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) explains how to Deploy an SFTP Service on Files.com and integrate With Microsoft Azure
Nicolas Bonnet (@nico_bonnet) talks about Azure NFS and Veeam

🔗 Web

The Azure updates team highlights the Azure API Management updates- October 2020
Sarah Lean (@TechieLass) covers Cloud Terminology Explained
On Azure Tips and Tricks, Michael Crump (@mbcrump) runs through Blazor and Azure Functions for Serverless Websites, explains How to use GraphQL on Azure and lists 5 Things you didn't know about Azure App Service

💻 Windows Virtual Desktop

The Azure updates team announces that Windows Virtual Desktop is now generally available in the Azure Government cloud
Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) writes: Zero to Hero with Windows Virtual Desktop