Azure Weekly
Issue #330 - 27th June 2021
This week, on the Azure Podcast, Brandy Brown and Sherryl Manalo discuss reducing Carbon Emissions with Spot VMs.
Paul DeCarlo highlights JulyOT: 31 Days of learning for everyone interested in the Internet of Things. Martin Tuip announces the general availability of Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows, and Pete Gallagher kicks off a series looking at Azure Percept
The updates team announces that you can now turn your phone into an IoT device with the new IoT Plug and Play mobile app, Rick Roché provides tips on Migrating Azure ARM templates to Bicep and Jamie McCrindle demonstrates Building an Azure App Service with a custom container using Bicep,
And finally Tom Kerkhove describes how Azure makes it easy to run open-source products.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- On Channel 9, Krishna Doss talks about how to Translate documents at scale and preserve formatting with Azure Translator
- The Azure Updates Team runs through the Azure Machine Learning public preview announcements for June 2021 and announces Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics for Health
- Gopal Vashishtha explains how to Deploy PyTorch models with TorchServe in Azure Machine Learning online endpoints
- Jeffrey Raymond Kitt writes: Meet The Swiss Group Uniting Biz Apps And Cognitive Services
- On Code Project, Jeremy Morgan (@JeremyCMorgan) runs through Building a Face Recognition App with Blazor and Azure Cognitive Services
- Michael Crump (@mbcrump) explains How to deploy Azure Cognitive Services in containers
🔎 Analytics
- The Azure Updates Team writes about General availability: Azure Data Explorer adds new geospatial capabilities
- On the MSSQL Tips site, John Miner (@JohnMiner3) describes Azure Data Factory Parameter Driven Pipelines to Export Tables to CSV Files
- Abhishek Narain explains how to Send notification on a Microsoft Teams channel from a Data Factory pipeline
- On Code Project, Mehreen Tahir writes about Seamless Streaming Analytics with Azure Synapse Analytics Part 1: Overview
- Jianlei Shen highlights that Azure Data Factory Copy now supports Always Encrypted for both source and sink
- Also on the MSSQL Tips site, Jeremy Kadlec talks about Microsofts commitment to the data community
- On Channel 9, Lisa Cohen (@lisafeig) talks about Better Azure content, programs & services through applied data science
- On the Perficient blog, David Callaghan provides a Deep Dive into Databricks Tempo for Time Series Analytics
🖥️ Compute
- On the Azure blog, Kevin Raines highlights that we should Join Microsoft at ISC 2021 and drive innovations with Azure high-performance computing
- On the Perficient blog, Amit Belekar runs through The Benefits of the Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set (VMSS)
- Aman Verma covers Azure HBv3 VMs and Excelero NVMesh Performance Results: 100+ GB/s, 23+ million IOPS, 100 µs latency
- Jon Shelley writes about Optimal MPI Process Placement for Azure HB Series VMs
- Zachary Cavanell explains how to Migrate & Modernize Linux VMs and Databases into Azure
- Also on the Azure blog, Michael Yen-Chi Ho explains how to Streamline your custom image building process with Azure VM Image Builder service
- Orin Thomas highlights that Windows Server 2022 Azure Edition is in Public Preview
- On the Azure blog, Andy Jia explains how to Optimize extreme computing performance with Azure FX-series Virtual Machines
- Alan Kinane (@Azure_Alan) discusses why Its time to start using Generation 2 virtual machines in Azure
- The Azure Updates Team announces the Expansion of credit-based disk bursting to Azure Standard SSDs E30 and smaller
- On The Azure Podcast, Brandy Brown and Sherryl Manalo discuss Reducing Carbon Emissions with Spot VMs
🚢 Containers
- The Azure Updates Team announces that Azure Container Registry is now available in West US 3
- Richard Hooper (@Pixel_Robots) talks about ExternalDNS and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- The Service Fabric team highlights the Azure Service Fabric 8.0 Second Refresh Release
🗄️ Databases
- The Azure Updates Team announces:
Full text query in diagnostics logs for Azure Cosmos DB in general availability,
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server: Forced failover in public preview,
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale Citus now offers server group restart feature in public preview,
AzureSQL—general availability updates forlate June 2021
and AzureSQL—public preview updates forlate June 2021 - On the Perficient blog, Tejas Wadbudhe describes How to Achieve High-Availability for Azure SQL by Using Auto-Failover Group
- On Channel 9, Jason Anderson (@JasonMA_MSFT) talks about The power of blockchain with the simplicity of SQL
- Davide Mauri (@mauridb) highlights that Azure SQL Database Hyperscale named replicas are now in preview
- On the MSSQL Tips site, Mohammed Moinudheen discusses some Options to backup SQL Server databases on Azure SQL VMs
🛠️ Developer Tools
- On Visual Studio Magazine - Blogs, David Ramel (@dramel) discusses what's New in Azure SDK: Data Tables & Monitor Libraries, and More
- Geert Baeke (@GeertBaeke) walks through Approving a private endpoint connection with Azure CLI
🔩 DevOps
- The Azure Updates Team announces the Azure DevOps updates for June 2021
- On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Jay Gordon (@jaydestro) lists the Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community
- Feng Xue discusses Combining multiple repositories with Azure DevOps pipelines
- Thomas Thornton (@tamstar1234) blogs about Storing and retrieving secrets in Azure KeyVault with Variable Groups in Azure DevOps Pipelines
- Kevin Chant highlights an event about GitHub and Azure DevOps
- Rick Roché shares tips on Migrating Azure ARM templates to Bicep
🧬 Hybrid
- Steve Buchanan (@buchatech) highlights a Pluralsight course on Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes
- On the DEV site, Rob Sewell (@sqldbawithbeard) and Jay Gordon discuss Azure Arc Enabled Data Services
- Bozhong Lin runs through some Updates to Azure Arc-enabled Machine Learning
- Gregor Reimling explains how to Connect physical/virtual servers to Azure Arc for centralized Azure management
🎭 Identity
- On the Redmond magazine site, Kurt Mackie (@kurmac) delves into a Microsoft Offers Tool for Finding Outdated Azure Active Directory App Dependencies
- Joseph Dadzie writes about how to Securely collaborate with guests using Azure AD guest access reviews
- Sue Bohn provides Guidance on using Azure AD to meet Zero Trust Architecture and MFA requirements
🔌 Integration
- The Azure Updates Team announces that the Azure Maps Mobility Services Preview will be retired on 5 October 2021
- Wen-Jun Zhang walks through How to capture exception and dump files of LogicApp standard in Kudu console
💡 Internet of Things
- The Azure Updates Team announces that Azure Sphere OS version 21.06 is now generally available, that Azure IoT Edge for Linux now generally available and the Azure Digital Twins plugin for Azure Data Explorer
- On the DEV site, Nitya Narasimhan (@ntiya) provides A Visual Guide To: Computer Vision in Azure
- On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Paul DeCarlo discusses JulyOT: 31 Days of Learning for everyone interested in the Internet of Things
- Justine Coates (@iotgirl) talks about Saving time and money with Azure Maps
- Martin Tuip announces the GA of Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows
- Taylor Anderson highlights that Adding Context to IoT Data Just Became Easier
- The Azure Sphere Team announces that Azure Sphere OS version 21.06 is now generally available
- On Code Project, Mohamed Ashiq blogs about Azure IoT with Arduino UNO Board to Turn On/Off LED using a .NET Core Console Application
- Pete Gallagher provides a first look at Azure Percept, then Azure Percept Audio – First Steps and Azure Percept Audio – Custom Keywords and Commands
📚 Learning
- Tobias Zimmergren & Jussi Roine (@CtrlAltAzure) discuss how to Get certified on Azure Security with AZ-500
- Timothy Warner (@TechTrainerTim) discusses Building Your Azure Cloud Skills
- Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) provides an AZ-700 Study Guide: Azure Network Engineer
⚖️ Management and Governance
- The Azure Updates Team announces Log Analytics Open In Excel - A new Excel integration capability
- On Channel 9, Ritesh Kini discusses how to Rightsize your Azure Virtual Machines and Priyanshi Mittal runs through Lower costs with Azure Virtual Machine reservations
- On Azure Sentinel Blog, Roberto Rodriguez (@Cyb3rWard0g) describes Testing the New Version of the Windows Security Events Connector with Azure Sentinel To-Go
- Roy Kim (@roykimyyz) writes about Pragmatic Guide to Azure Resource Naming Conventions
- On Azure Sentinel blog, Shahar Aviv describes Moving Azure Activity Connector to an improved method
- Anthony Watherston discusses Software Installation using Azure Policy State Change events
- Sonia Cuff (@soniacuff) explains How to display Azure Monitor alerts with smart lights and no code
🚌 Migration
- On Microsoft + Open Source, Chhavi Nijhawan describes How to migrate and modernize Linux workloads and open source databases to Azure
- On the Codit blog, Tom Kerkhove (@TomKerkhove) describes how Azure makes it easy to run open-source products
- On the Azure blog, Jaishree Subramania (@JaishreeMS) explains how to Manage your digital transformation at scale for retail with Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
- Anna Hoffman (@AnalyticAnna) explains how to Build serverless, full stack applications in Azure
📱 Mobile
- On the Azure blog, Jason Freeberg explains how to Deploy apps seamlessly with Red Hat JBoss EAP on Azure App Service—now generally available
- The Azure Updates Team announces that you can now Turn your phone into an IoT device with the new IoT Plug and Play mobile app
- David Ramel (@dramel) runs through What's New in .NET MAUI Preview 5
🌐 Networking
- The Azure Updates Team announces the Public preview of Default Rule Set 2.0 for Azure Web Application Firewall
- Geert Baeke (@GeertBaeke) discusses Azure App Services with Private Link
🔐 Security
- The Azure Updates Team announces that the Azure Key Vault Managed HSM is generally available
- On Azure Sentinel blog, Preeti Krishna (@PreetiKr007) explains how to Join in the Azure Sentinel Hackathon 2021
- On Code Project, Aditya Sharma (@adinb007) describes Implementing Azure Information Protection in MS Office documents and PDFs programmatically
- On SQL Server Central, Ron L'Esteve discusses Azure Databricks Access Controls and Row Level Security
- On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Abhishek Narain (@narainabhishek) covers Azure Data Factory Security
📦 Storage
- On the Azure blog, Yuan Zheng explains how to Modernize large-scale NFS workloads and eliminate data silos with Azure Blob Storage
- The Azure Updates Team announces that NFS 3.0 protocol support is generally available in Azure Blob storage, a Azure NetApp Files Regional Capacity Quota and highlights that Account creation will be blocked for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 for new customers starting July 5, 2021
- On SQL Server Central, Tonie Huizer walks through Running SQL Clone on an Azure VM with Azure File Storage
🔗 Web
- Jamie McCrindle's blog, Jamie McCrindle writes about Building an Azure App Service with a custom container using Bicep
- On the DEV site, Yan Jin explains how to Build serverless real-time chat application with Web PubSub and Static Web Apps
- Yuchen Wang explains how to Deploy Java app and dependencies to Azure App Service in a single step with Maven