Azure Weekly
Issue #323 - 9th May 2021
This week, the updates team have announced that ARM Template Specs are now generally available. And, usefully, Barbara Forbes runs through how to get started with Azure ARM Template specs. Alongside this, the team have announced that append blob support is now generally available in Azure Data Lake Store.
On Channel 9, Rachel Kang and James Montemagno discuss building Accessible Mobile Apps. And finally, Lee Stott discusses teaching Azure to prepare students for the future.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- On SQL Server Central, Chandra Kudumula walks through Insurance price prediction using Machine Learning ML.NET
- On Tech Community blog, Derek Legenzoff discusses Azure Cognitive Search performance: Setting yourself up for success
- Also on SQL Server Central, Ron L'Esteve blogs about Getting Started with MLflow in Azure Databricks
- On Code Project, Raphael Mun describes Building on Cloud Native Services with AI (Node.js on Azure)
- The Azure Updates Team announces New features, improvements and bug fixes in Custom Translator
🔎 Analytics
- On Tech Community blog, Evandro Muchinski blogs about Realtime analytics from SQL Server to Power BI with Debezium
- On the Tallan blog, Travis Dahlke discusses Azure Data Factory: How to Create a Dataset
🖥️ Compute
- On Tech Community blog, Sonia Cuff (@soniacuff) walks through the different Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine sizes
- On Code Project, Duncan Edwards Jones (@Merrion) discusses Event Sourcing on Azure Functions
- Also on Tech Community blog, Trevor Davis (@vtrevordavis) talks about Optimizing Azure VMware Solution Storage
- The Azure Updates Team announces that New NPv1 virtual machines are now generally available
🚢 Containers
- The Azure Updates Team announces that AKS support for Secrets Store Container Storage Interface is in public preview
- Richard Hooper (@Pixel_Robots) talks about How to change Windows node pool password in Azure Kubernetes Service
- On Code Project, Joel Ivory Johnson covers Containers in Pods (Java on Azure)
- Richard Hooper (@Pixel_Robots) highlights that The hands-on Kubernetes on Azure book has been updated for 2021
🗄️ Databases
- Also on Tech Community blog, Halil Ozan Akgul runs through some Citus Tips for Postgres: How to alter distribution key, shard count, & more
- Davide Mauri (@mauridb) and Jeffery Palermo dicuss Azure SQL for Developers
- On the MSSQL Tips site, Haroon Ashraf explains how to Create and Publish a SQL Database Project without using SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) in Visual Studio
- On Tech Community blog, Zachary Cavanell explains how to Build fast, scalable data system on Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Clearent
🛠️ Developer Tools
- The Azure Updates Team highlights that the Azure Data Share Preview API versions will no longer be supported starting August 1, 2021
- On Tech Community blog, Bob German (@bob1german) asks What's up with Markdown?
- On Visual Studio Magazine - Blogs, David Ramel (@dramel) highlights Improved Azure Machine Learning Experience in VS Code and that you can See What's Coming for VS Code in New Update Previews
🔩 DevOps
- On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Angel Wong talks about IPv6 fencing Conditional Access Policies now supported in Azure DevOps
- Also on the Microsoft DevOps blog, Martina Hiemstra highlights that Delivery Plans 2.0 is now generally available
- As aways, also on the Microsoft DevOps blog, Steven Murawski (@StevenMurawski) lists the Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community
- On Tech Community blog, Han Zhang provides a Solution Template for Deploying Azure ML Models to AKS Clusters via Azure DevOps
- Also on Tech Community blog, Yannis Lempidakis explains how to Deploy HoloLens 2 at scale using the power of cloud services
🧬 Hybrid
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) explains how to Install Azure Site Recovery Provider on Azure Stack HCI OS
- On the DEV site, Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) and Jay Gordon discuss Hybrid Cloud on Azure
- And, on Ctrl-Alt-Azure, Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) explores Azure Arc
- On Tech Community blog, Zachary Cavanell explains how to Consolidate data to one source with Azure SQL Managed Instance
🎭 Identity
- On Code It Yourself, Carlos Mendible (@cmendibl3) explains how to Deploy AKS + Kubecost with Terraform
- Marcel Zehner (@marcelzehner) discusses AWS Single Sign-On with Azure AD – Walk-through Part 1/2
- On Tech Community blog, Liliam Leme discusses Using MSI to authenticate on a Synapse Spark Notebook while querying the Storage
- Also on Tech Community blog, Sherry Sahni explains how to Protect API's using OAuth 2.0 in APIM
- On Code Project, Joel Ivory Johnson (@j2inet) describes Cloud-Native Authentication (Java on Azure)
- Also on Code Project, Raphael Mun covers Cloud Native Authentication (Node.js on Azure)
🔌 Integration
- Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) runs through how to Automatically add an Azure Tag Using Event Grid and Azure Functions
💡 Internet of Things
- The Azure Updates Team announces the General availability of Azure Maps- new Gen2 pricing model available
- Sander van de Velde describes How to cope in code with the quota limitation of an IoT Hub
- On Tech Community blog, Avneet Singh explains how to Extend Azure IoT Central with the 1.0 REST APIs to build your production ready solution
- Also on Tech Community blog, Eric Mittelette highlights the New LTS release for Azure IoT Hub SDK for .NET
- Also on Tech Community blog, Vasiya Krishnan highlights that Azure SQL Edge now runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Also on Tech Community blog, Ricardo Duncan talks about how to Unlock the Future of Azure IoT through Power Platform
- Also on Tech Community blog, Alp Babayigit explains How to Quick Start with Defender for IoT Sensor onboarding and integration into Azure Sentinel
- Michael Crump (@mbcrump) walks through How to get started with Azure Digital Twins
📚 Learning
- On Tech Community blog, The Student Developer Team writes - Meet a Recent Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador Graduate: Ayush Chauhan
- Kevin Chant walks through Gaining the Azure Data Engineer Associate Microsoft certification
- Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) provides a SC-900 Microsoft Security Compliance and Identity Fundamentals study guide
- On the Whizlabs blog, Vidya Ransam highlights the new Practice test for the Microsoft Azure Exam AZ-220 Certification
- Also on Tech Community blog, Lee Stott (@lee_stott) explains how to Incorporate the MS Learn for Educators teaching materials into your existing course materials
- Also on Tech Community blog, Lee Stott (@lee_stott) discusses Teaching Azure to prepare students for the future
- Kevin Chant highlights that the DP-203 Azure Data Engineering exam is now GA
- Also on the Whizlabs blog, Vidya Ransam provides a Complete Guide of the Azure Data Scientist Associate Certification
⚖️ Management and Governance
- On the DEV site, Ángel Pérez highlights that ARM Template Specs are now generally available
- The Azure Updates Team announces Azure Log Analytics UI updates May 2021
- On Tech Community blog, Anthony Bartolo (@WirelessLife) talks about New Azure VMs, Azure Monitor Updates, Cost Management Updates and more
- Also on Tech Community blog, Bruno Gabrielli talks about how to Set Your Alert State Using Azure Automation
- Also on Tech Community blog, Roy Gal highlights the New experience for Custom Logs inLog Analytics UI and that Log Analytics pinned parts now works with Azure Dashboard filters
- On the Catapult Systems blog, Cameron Fuller introduces Azure Monitor
- On Code Project, Joel Ivory Johnson describes Monitoring and Scaling Containerized Apps (Java on Azure)
- David O'Brien (@david_obrien) discusses Genie - Advanced Insights on Azure Functions
- Also on Tech Community blog, Reshma Vishwanath walks through Troubleshooting Node down Scenarios in Azure Service Fabric - Part I
- Also on Tech Community blog, Al Morrison describes Getting started with SAP on Azure
- Barbara Forbes (@Ba4bes) explains how to Get started with Azure ARM Template specs
- On Channel 9, Sujay Talasila (@sujaytalasila) talks about Simplify moving resources between regions with Azure Resource Mover
- Also on the DEV site, Julien Dubois (@juliendubois) announces NubesGen, an Open Source tool to automate Azure deployments
🎬 Media
- On the Azure podcast, David Giard (@DavidGiard) discusses Azure Media Services
🚌 Migration
- On Channel 9, Venkata Raj Pochiraju and Anna Hoffman talk about Migrating to SQL: Cloud Migration Strategies and Phases in Migration Journey
- Also on the Microsoft DevOps blog, Jay Gordon (@jaydestro) discusses Migrating to Azure SQL
- Chris Nicholas and Mike Pfeiffer discuss Azure Cloud Adoption & Strategy
📱 Mobile
- On Channel 9, Rachel Kang (@therachelkang) talks about Building Accessible Mobile Apps
- Also on Channel 9, Pedro Jesus talks about Lifecycle Events (Xamarin Community Toolkit)
🌐 Networking
- The Azure Updates Team announces the General availability of multiple features for Azure VPN Gateway
- Jose Moreno (@erjosito) describes Azure Traffic Analytics and Breach Detection
- Sarah Lean (@TechieLass) runs through Troubleshooting degraded state in Azure Traffic Manager
- On the Whizlabs blog, Vidya Ransam provides an Azure Virtual Private Cloud Guide and an Azure Load Balancer Complete Guide
- On the Azure Medium blog, Agraj Mangal writes about how to Secure your Microservices on AKS—Part 3—The Network
- On Tech Community blog, Daichi Isami (@normalian) explains How to fix outbound IPs for App Service
🔐 Security
- The Azure Updates Team highlights the Azure Security Center: Public preview updates for April 2021 and the Azure Security Center: General availability updates for April 2021
- On Tech Community blog, TJ Banasik announces the Azure Sentinel: Zero Trust (TIC3.0) Workbook
- On Channel 9, Dean Bryen (@deanbryen) and Damian Brady discuss: Security is Not an Afterthought
📦 Storage
- The Azure Updates Team announces that the Azure Blob storage—NFS 3.0 protocol support public preview now expands to all regions, that Azure Backup: Operational backup for Azure Blobs is now generally available and that Append blob support in Azure Data Lake Storage is now generally available
- On Tech Community blog, Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) walks through how to Upload Files to Azure Blob Storage using Power Automate Desktop
- On Tech Community blog, Pierre Roman (@pierreroman) talks about the Azure Backup Center – Your one-stop for all things backups.
- Also on Tech Community blog, Asif Khan (@khanasif1) describes Azure NetApp Files for NFS storage with Moodle
🔗 Web
- Rahul Nath (@rahulpnath) describes How To Deploy Web App and Web Job In A Single Pipeline