Azure Weekly
Issue #380 - 31st July 2022
Crossplane is a CNCF control plane framework. In First steps with Crossplane Geert Baeke combines it with GitOps (via Flux) to deploy Azure Resources. Vincent Nwonah describes How to deploy a Local Docker Container to Azure Container Apps.
Other highlights include: Public Preview: Enhanced My Apps experience, Discover your applications breakpoint using Azure Load Testing, and finally Building Industrial IoT applications with the Microsoft Cloud.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- On the Azure blog, Kushal Datta discusses Azure empowers easy-to-use, high-performance, and hyperscale model training using DeepSpeed
- Cormac Garvey describes E2E deployment of a production ready NDv4 A100 cluster targeting large deep learning training
- Mithun Prasad talks about Speech Recognition for Singlish
- Wolfgang Pauli talks about Fine-tuning a transformer model for question natural language inference QNLI with Azure SQL
🔎 Analytics
- The Azure Updates Team writes about Generally available: Azure Stream Analytics in four new regions
- Daniel Perlovsky explains how to Managed attributes public preview and rich text editor in Data Catalog
- Mark Kromer (@kromerbigdata) writes about 3 New Data Transformation Functions in ADF
- Gabi Lehner covers Azure Data Explorer breaking changes Action Required
- On the SQL Server Blog, Timi Oshin covers Azure Data Studio July Release with VS Code Updates
- Matt Ramezanian explains how to Filtering, merging, and adding new column in Azure Data Factory
🖥️ Compute
- On Visual Studio Magazine, David Ramel (@dramel) describes Azure Functions Boosted with .NET 7 Support
- Cameron Gardiner talks about Optimizing Network Throughput on Azure M-series VMs
🚢 Containers
- Vincent Nwonah describes How to deploy a Local Docker Container to Azure Container Apps
- Manoj Srinivas blogs presents Azure Tips and Tricks - How to containerize and deploy a Java app to Azure
- On episode 203 of the Azure DevOps Podcast, Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) is joined by Kendall Roden to talk about Azure Container Apps
🗄️ Databases
- The Azure Updates Team blogs about Public preview: SQL DB output connector improvements in Stream Analytics
- Sridhar Ranganathan writes about Single to Flexible server PostgreSQL migration tool is now in Preview
- Francisco O blogs about Improving Performance with AUTOUPDATESTATISTICSASYNC
- In number 231 of his Lesson Learned: Hands-On Labs series, Jose M Jurado (@jmjuradodiaz) discusses What is Azure SQL working on
- Holger Linke covers how to Resolve Elastic Query issues in Azure SQL Database
- Ajay Jagannathan describes SQL Server 2022 community technology preview 2.1 is now available
- Vincent Jiang explains How to setup multi-subnets Azure SQL VM AG group based WSFC Windows Server 2019
🛠️ Developer Tools
- Luca Bolognese explains how to What's new in the Azure Lab Services April Preview 2022
- On Visual Studio Magazine, David Ramel (@dramel) writes about 'Visual Studio for Linux' Tops Microsoft Q&A Site
- Jose Moreno (@erjosito) walks through Accessing AKS private clusters with Azure Bastion and VS Code
- Elio Struyf describes how to Open your VSCode extension walkthrough from a command
🔩 DevOps
- Thomas Thornton (@tamstar1234) talks about Using variables to dynamically check out a repository using a specific branch or tag in Azure DevOps Pipelines
- Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) talks about Azure DevOps and Bicep Pipelines
- Kevin Chant explains how to Update both ends of Azure Synapse Link for SQL Server 2022 using Azure DevOps
- Geert Baeke (@GeertBaeke) writes about First steps with Crossplane
- Geert van Teylingen covers Providing Disaster Recovery to CloudBees-Jenkins in AKS with Astra Control Service
- On the Azure Medium blog, Musunuru Sharmila explains How to implement Azure Enterprise Scale Landing zone ESLZ using CAF Terraform—Part 1
🎭 Identity
- Kristina Hotz blogs about Public Preview: Enhanced My Apps experience
- Alex Simons (@Alex_A_Simons) lists the Top ratings for Microsoft in KuppingerCole Leadership Compass reports
- On the Redmond magazine site, Kurt Mackie (@kurmac) blogs about Microsoft Commercially Releases Azure Active Directory Cross Tenant Access Setting and undefined talks about Microsoft Adds Improvements to Certificate-Based Authentication Preview
- Alex Weinert blogs about Check out new Azure AD Certificate-Based Authentication CBA enhancements
- The Intune Support Team covers Return of key functionality for Windows Autopilot sign-in and deployment experience
- On episode 144 of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast, Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine take A look at the Power Platform API and Azure AD Service Principals
- On the Azure Unblogged channel, Amy Colyer talks about Enterprise Scale for Azure VMware Solution - Identity and Access
- Andrew Coughlin walks through Accessing Key Vault from Another Subscription Over Private Endpoint
🔌 Integration
- Kent Weare explains how to Prepare for SQL as a Storage Provider Preview Refresh
- Sandro Pereira (@sandro_asp) covers Logic App Best practices, Tips, and Tricks: 13 Logic App Standard vs Consumption
💡 Internet of Things
- The Azure Updates Team writes about Generally available: Guided tour experience added to Azure IoT Central
- The Azure Sphere Team writes about General Availability: Azure Sphere version 22.07 new and updated features
- Jim Bennett discusses JulyOT weekly round up week 3, , AI on the edge, JulIoT, and secure embedded development
- Olivier Bloch covers Building Industrial IoT applications with the Microsoft Cloud
- Also on Tech Community blog, Amit Cohen covers Stream Microsoft Defender for IoT alerts to a 3rd party SIEM
📚 Learning
- Sander van de Velde says Its time to renew your AZ-220 certification
- George Grammatikos (@cloudopszone) discusses Renewing Azure Certification Without Any Additional Cost
- Lee Stott (@lee_stott) presents Using Visual Studio Notebooks for learning C#
⚖️ Management and Governance
- The Azure Updates Team blogs about Public preview: Managed attributes in Microsoft Purview data catalog and writes about Generally available: Rich text editor in Microsoft Purview data catalog
- The Azure Updates Team covers Public preview: Share images across subscriptions and tenants with new Compute Gallery feature
- Allison Cordle covers Azure portal June 2022 updates
- Adam Bertram (@adbertram) writes about Highly Effective Azure Monitoring with Azure Log Analytics
- On the Data Exposed show, Anna Hoffman (@AnalyticAnna) and Wolfgang Strasser (@wstrasser) discusses how to Track your data supply chain using Azure Purview Data Exposed
- Billy York talks about Azure Monitor Alert Workbook
- On the Armchair Architects series, David Blank-Edelman, Uli Homann, and Eric Charran delve into Architecting Mission Critical Apps
🚌 Migration
- On the Azure Medium blog, Musunuru Sharmila asks What is Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework CAF for Azure?
📱 Mobile
- Joost van Schaik talks about Guest Blog From MRTK2 to MRTK3 - going cross platform with HoloLens 2 and Quest 2
🌐 Networking
- The Azure Updates Team writes about Generally available: New KMS DNS in Azure Global Cloud
- Alan Kinane (@Azure_Alan) describes How to query a Private DNS Zone over Point-to-Site connection with Azure DNS Private Resolver
- Arsen Vladimirskiy (@ArsenVlad) talks about Azure Private Link Service with NGINX Plus to decode Proxy Protocol TLV linkIdentifier
🔐 Security
- On the Azure Medium blog, Andre Camillo writes about Alert management in your Microsoft Defender for Cloud and covers Log Management Fundamentals for Cybersecurity Engineers
📦 Storage
- Gregor Reimling says Microsoft announced Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage in preview – for me a big announcement this year
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) writes What is Azure Blob Storage? A Definitive Guide
- Dennis Padia explains how to SAP ASCS/ERS HA Cluster with SBD device using iSCSI target server failover to DR region using ASR
🔗 Web
- John Reilly (@johnny_reilly) covers Terry Pratchett and the Azure Static Web Apps
- Aaron Powell (@slace) covers Controlling Blazor Environments on Static Web Apps
- Nikita Nallamothu explains how to Discover your applications breakpoint using Azure Load Testing
- Julia Muiruri describes how to Host your website on Azure Static Web Apps for free