Azure Weekly
Issue #385 - 4th September 2022
There are always a number of GA / Public & Private Preview announcements at the end / start of a month; Azure Virtual Machines with Ampere Altra Arm - based processors, Azure Cosmos DB integrated cache, and Azure Managed Grafana are generally available, and the public preview of App Configuration references for App Service and Azure Functions. There's a great 2022 Introduction to Azure Automation.
Taiseer Joudeh has a great series of posts about building Microservice Applications with Azure Container Apps and Dapr - Part 1, Deploy backend API Microservice to Azure Container Apps Part 2, Communication between Microservices in Azure Container Apps - Part 3, Dapr Integration with Azure Container Apps Part 4, and Azure Container Apps State Store With Dapr State Management API Part 5.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- On episode 208 of the Azure DevOps Podcast, Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) is joined by Mathias Brandewinder to discuss Math and Machine Learning using .NET
- Bea Stollnitz covers Creating batch endpoints in Azure ML
- Geert van Teylingen writes about High-performance storage for AI Model Training tasks using Azure ML studio with Azure NetApp Files
🔎 Analytics
- The Azure Updates Team announces General availability: Unity Catalog for Azure Databricks
- Ryan Majidimehr (@rmajidimehr) discusses Azure Synapse Analytics August Update 2022
- Michal Bar writes about ADX Web Explorer updates – August 2022 and writes about New productivity features in Kusto Explorer
- Bethany Jepchumba describes How to connect Azure Synapse to Power BI for data visualization.
🖥️ Compute
- The Azure Updates Team announces Generally available: Azure Functions extension for Event Grid blob trigger
- The Azure Updates Team announces the Public preview: Node.js 18 in Azure Functions, and the Public preview: App Configuration references for App Service and Azure Functions and the Public preview: Enterprise VMware Cloud Director Service for Azure VMware Solution
- Rachel Pruitt discusses Microsoft at the Super Computing 22 conference.
- Paul Nash discusses Azure Virtual Machines with Ampere Altra Arm–based processors are generally available
- Ram Gowrishankar announces New enhancements for Azure VMware Solution
🚢 Containers
- On the Kubernetes Blog, David Porter, Mrunal Patel cover Kubernetes 1.25: cgroup v2 graduates to GA
- Ayobami Ayodeji announces landing zone accelerator for Azure Red Hat OpenShift ARO
- Hammed Babatunde walks through How to Store Docker Images in Azure Container Registry using Azure CLI
- Mengyang Chen describes How to allow target cipher suites to work with NGINX from on prem and AKS side
- Paolo Salvatori describes how to Use Azure tags in Azure Kubernetes Service AKS
- Ekele Asonye explains how to Deploy configurations on AksHci using GitOps with Flux v2
- Olivia Al-Joundi describes Xbox/Gaming bets on AKS & Mariner
- Taiseer Joudeh (@TJoudeh) presents articles from a series on Azure Container Apps and Dapr: Dapr Integration with Azure Container Apps – Part 4 and Azure Container Apps State Store With Dapr State Management API – Part 5
🗄️ Databases
- The Azure Updates Team announces the General availability of Azure Cosmos DB integrated cache
- Rajesh Setlem announces General Availability GA of Zone Redundancy for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale tier
- The Azure Updates Team announces Azure SQL - General availability updates for late August 2022 and Azure SQL—Public preview updates for late August 2022
- Michael Howard blogs about Azure PaaS Database Root CA Certificate Changes
- On the Data Exposed show, Anna Hoffman (@AnalyticAnna) and Erik Ejlskov Jensen (@ErikEJ) discuss how to Start using EF Core with your existing Azure SQL Database in 5 minutes
- Sandip Khandelwal blogs about Db2 to Azure SQL DB parallel data copy by generating ADF copy activities dynamically
- Sabrin Alsahsah talks about Principle 'XXX' could not be found or this principal type is not supported - Azure SQL DB and MI
- Kevin Chant discusses Updates and deletes with Azure Synapse Link for SQL Server 2022
🛠️ Developer Tools
- Julia Liuson writes 'Microsoft is committed to the success of Java developers'
- On Visual Studio Magazine - Blogs, David Ramel (@dramel) writes about Visual Studio Build Tools Licensing Eased for Open Source C++ Projects, and Spring Functionality, Debugging Improved in Java on VS Code Update, and Visual Studio Extension Guru Intros Rainbow Braces to Make Sense of Code, and New 'Getting Started' Walkthrough Unveiled for VS Code PowerShell Tool and VS Code Emerges As Remote Development Superstar
- Steve Smith covers Rainbow Colorized Brackets in Visual Studio
- Lee Stott (@lee_stott) discusses the Azure Developer Command Line Interface open-source tool to accelerate the time it takes to deploy
- On episode 149 of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast, Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine discuss Developing in the cloud with Microsoft Dev Box
🔩 DevOps
- Thomas Thornton (@tamstar1234) covers Deploying multiple Container Apps in Azure using Terraform and AzAPI
- Dan Hellem writes about New Boards Hub, Sprint 209 Update
- Daniel Krzyczkowski (@DKrzyczkowski) presents an Introduction to DevSecOps on Azure
- Joost van Rossum (@ssisjoost) covers DevOps snack: If condition in YAML code
- On the Octopus Deploy Blog, Shawn Sesna writes about Cloud-native database deployment authentication
- Andreas Helland blogs about Passwordless Azure for CI/CD, Infrastructure and User Experiences
- Musunuru Sharmila writes about an Ultimate guide for Enterprise-scale landing zone for Azure.
- Arti Gulwadi explains how to Elevate your visualizations with Azure Managed Grafana - now Generally Available
- Ye Gu blogs about Visualizing data in realtime with Azure Managed Grafana
⚙️ Hybrid + Multicloud
- The Azure Updates Team writes about General availability: ExpressRoute IPv6 Support for Global Reach, discusses Public preview: Azure Arc-enabled servers in Azure China and writes about Generally available: Azure Arc-enabled servers in South Africa North
🎭 Identity
- Mine Tanrinian Demir blogs about Public Preview: Leverage Azure Active Directory Kerberos with Azure Files for hybrid identities
- Arsen Vladimirskiy (@ArsenVlad) covers Mapping AWS IAM concepts to similar ones in Azure
- Joseph Dadzie writes about Dynamic automated access with Azure AD entitlement management
- David Giard (@DavidGiard) walks through Creating an Azure Key Vault
- Alex Weinert writes about One step closer to modernization: The MFA Server Migration Utility
🔌 Integration
- The Azure Updates Team announces the General availability: Azure Communication Services support for Teams identities
- Bill Baer explains how to What's new and what's next for ServiceNow Graph Connectors
- Ringe Chen writes about Long execution functions with Service Bus Trigger
- Sandro Pereira (@sandro_asp) blogs about Logic App Best practices, Tips, and Tricks: 14 Implement good governance policies
💡 Internet of Things
- Micah Lewis writes about General availability of IoT Edge 1.4 LTS
- Tad Brockway (@tadbrockway) announces that Azure private multi-access edge compute (MEC) - A thriving partner ecosystem
📚 Learning
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) asks Can A Microsoft Azure Security Certification Be Helpful For Your Career? Learn Here
- Julia Muiruri blogs about The Microsoft Connector Hackathon - Learn Fusion Development in 30 days
⚖️ Management and Governance
- The Azure Updates Team announces Generally available: Enterprise - ready Azure Monitor change analysis capability released
- Catherine Wang covers Change Analysis GA announcement
- Michael Flanakin (@flanakin) highlights the Microsoft Cost Management updates – August 2022
- Daichi Isami (@normalian) explains How to leverage Azure Monitor to meet functional/non-functional requirements-No.3 Compute/Inside OS
- Shayoni Seth explains how to Migrate to Azure Monitor Agent for better security, reliability and ease of management
- Cameron Fuller discusses Creating custom Azure alerts from Log Analytics: parsing the alert in Azure Automation
- Todd Fine writes about Why Well-Architected Framework (WAF): Driving Technical Excellence in Delivery for your Organization
- Robert Smit (@Clustermvp) writes Start with Cloud Adoption Framework enterprise-scale landing zones CAF Azure Cloud MVPBuzz
- Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) provides an Introduction to Azure Automation (again)
- On episode 86 of The Intrazone podcast, Mark Kashman (@mkashman) and Chris McNulty (@cmcnulty2000) are joined by Jon Farmer and Sean Emam to discuss Datacenters - Think globally, act locally
🌐 Networking
- On the Redmond magazine site, Kurt Mackie (@kurmac) discusses Microsoft Blames Ubuntu Update DNS Problems for Azure Services Outage
- Lara Goldstein describes how to Automatically Configure Azure Firewall Rules to Allow Traffic to Office 365 Endpoints
🔐 Security
- Yael Bergman discusses Troubleshoot Amazon Web ServicesS3 connector issues
- Lara Goldstein covers Securing Containers from Build to Runtime
- Andre Camillo provides A holistic view of Security Dynamics 365
- Roberto Rodriguez (@Cyb3rWard0g) blogs about Enabling AD FS Security Auditing and Shipping Event Logs to Microsoft Sentinel
📦 Storage
- The Azure Updates Team announces General availability of Live resize for Premium SSD and Standard SSD Disk Storage and General availability: Managed identity to connect Azure Cache for Redis to storage
- The Azure Updates Team announces Public preview: Azure Storage Explorer support for Azure App Configuration resources
- Ned Pyle delves into SMB compression behavior & settings changes
- Kellyn Gorman blogs about Addressing Oracle Redo Latency with Ultra Disk
- Darren Turchiarelli describes how to Domain Join a Storage Account Leveraging Azure Automation
- Wim Matthyssen (@wmatthyssen) talks about Azure Backup: Create a Recovery Services vault with Azure PowerShell
🔗 Web
- The Azure Updates Team announces Generally available: API Management custom widget support in developer portal and Generally available: Enterprise-grade edge for Azure Static Web Apps
- Asir Selvasingh (@asirselvasingh) describes Price Reduction - Azure Spring Apps does more, costs less
- Damien Bowden (@damien_bod) describes how to Secure ASP.NET Core GRPC API hosted in a Linux kestrel Azure App Service
- Thomas Thornton (@tamstar1234) discusses azure application gateway data for certificate is invalid error fix
- On The Azure Podcast, the team are joined by Byron Tardif from the App Services team to learn about App Services on Kestrel
- Nagarjuna Vipparthi discusses Load test endpoints with access restrictions using Azure Load Testing
- Lundo Hua blogs about Self Hosted Portal Design and Publish Architecture