Azure Weekly

Issue #395 - 13th November 2022

This week saw the release of .NET 7.0 and day zero support across Azure PaaS services, including App Service, Azure Functions, Static Web Apps and Azure Container Apps. .NET 7.0 is a Standard Term Support (STS) release that will be supported for 18 months. If you want to catch up on more information about the .NET 7 release, you can watch the dotnetconf 2022 session on demand.

There are two posts about password / key rotations this week: Automated Key Rotation Generally Available on Azure Key Vault Managed HSM and Automatically rotate the password of a service principal.

There's a significant performance upgrade: Generally available: Increasing Azure Synapse Analytics Spark performance up to 77% and an interesting article about Synapse Spark Delta Time Travel.

In the DevOps space, two blogs about Azure Monitor Workspace, Managed Prometheus and Prometheus via Bicep and Find an item in an array of objects in Azure bicep.

From endjin folks there is Adventures in Dapr: Episode 4 - Containerising with Visual Studio - this has got a lot of useful information about containerisation, and in part 5 of Bye bye Azure Functions, Hello Azure Container Apps: Migration of the existing test environment there's a really great demonstrating of using Polyglot Notebooks as a runbook for managing the migrations; we're using this approach more and more for initial deployments and migrations. And finally, Ian Griffiths and Ed Freeman at are VS Live! in Orlando this week, giving a talk about Cosmos DB: Performance and Consistency at Global Scale and a workshop on Modern Data DevOps in the Azure Cloud.