Azure Weekly
Issue #398 - 4th December 2022
There's a bit of a melting pot of news and articles this week. Items of note around identity: there's a new Admin Center Unifies Azure AD with Other Identity and Access Products, and an interesting post introducing Machine Learning based recommendations in Azure AD Access reviews, and a worthwhile read about sharing Microsoft Graph permissions and solution Azure App Registrations.
There's a great primer about Confidential Compute on Azure with Kubernetes, a useful new feature in Public Preview: Inbound IP restrictions support in Azure Container Apps and new language support: Public preview: Go language support on Azure App Service.
Finally, in the analytics space: Start your metadata driven adventure in Azure Data Factory Data Exposed: MVP Edition, a useful guide for Configuring your Windows development machine for data science, and from endjin, two talks about accessible data storytelling: Data Storytelling with Power BI: The World Bank World Health and Wealth Report, and Accessible Data Storytelling with Power BI: Design Concepts and Accessible Colours.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- On the Azure Medium blog, Valentina Alto provides an Introduction to Azure Machine Learning
- Erin Spencer describes November in HLS – Healthcare Shorts, Azure Cognitive Services, and More
- Henk Boelman (@hboelman) explains how to Highlights for the Global AI Student Conference 2022
🔎 Analytics
- Barry Smart (@barry_j_a_smart) created a 10 minute talk about Data Storytelling with Power BI: The World Bank World Health and Wealth Report and Paul Waller (@crashbangwaller) recorded a talk delving into Accessible Data Storytelling with Power BI: Design Concepts and Accessible Colours.
- Ryan Majidimehr (@rmajidimehr) covers Azure Synapse Analytics November Update 2022
- Luke Moloney explains How Data Exfiltration Protection DEP impacts Azure Synapse Analytics Pipelines
- Michal Bar writes about ADX Web updates – November 2022 and Timeline visualization - one way of using the powerful Time Pivot chart Kusto Explorer
- On the Data Exposed show, Anna Hoffman (@AnalyticAnna) is joined by André Kamman to discuss how to Start your metadata driven adventure in Azure Data Factory
🖥️ Compute
- The Azure Updates Team announces Public Preview: Durable Functions support for .NET 7.0 isolated model and Public preview: Azure HX series and HBv4 series virtual machines
- On the Azure blog, Richard Paw talks about Voltus and Azure - no power integrity challenge too big to solve
- Rene van den Bedem discusses Azure VMware Solution Availability Design Considerations
🚢 Containers
- The Azure Updates Team announce Generally Available: Azure Blob CSI driver support in AKS
- The Azure Updates Team writes about Private preview: Azure Kubernetes Service AKS Backup
- The Azure Updates Team talks about Public Preview: Inbound IP restrictions support in Azure Container Apps
- On The New Stack, Mary Branscombe (@marypcbuk) writes about Confidential Compute on Azure with Kubernetes
- Goodness Chris-Ugari blogs about Getting Started with the Azure Kubernetes Service AKS
- On episode 014 of the Kubernetes Unpacked podcast, Steve Buchanan (@buchatech) joins as a guest to discuss Using GitOps and AKS to Build and Deploy Apps
- Vinicius Apolinario (@vrapolinario) writes about 5 tips for IIS on containers: 5 Container and Node OS upgrade
- Andre Dewes blogs about Azure Kubernetes Service: RBAC options in practice
🗄️ Databases
- The Azure Updates Team announces teh General Availability of: PostgreSQL 15 support in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, and Azure Blob Storage integration with Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL, and Cross-region read replicas for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL and Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL Citus 11.1 support and Azure SQL—General availability updates for late November 2022
- The Azure Updates Team announces the Public Preview of: Enhanced metrics for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server, and Premium series hardware for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale, and Azure SQL Trigger for Azure Functions and Azure SQL - Public preview updates for late November 2022
- James Serra (@JamesSerra) talks about SQL Server 2022 is GA
- Manvendra Singh explains how to Configure Active Geo Replication for Azure SQL Database
- Joao Antunes covers Azure SQL DB - How to create and manage your cross subscription Auto-Failover groups FoG
- Scott Kim announces new premium-series hardware options for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale and the preview of 128 vCore provisioned compute size on Azure SQL Standard-series Gen5
- Mitchell Sternke writes about New In SQL Server 2022 and Azure SQL: XEvent Performance Metrics
🛠️ Developer Tools
- Bea Stollnitz discusses Configuring your Windows development machine for data science
- Christine Ruana walks through Removing out-of-support components from your Visual Studio installations
- Maria Solano walks through Building a new JavaScript linting experience in Visual Studio
- On the Q Sharp blog, Mathias Soeken explains how to Automate Resource Estimation with QIR
- On episode 211 of the Azure DevOps Podcast, Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) is joined by Brady Gaster to discuss Orleans
🔩 DevOps
- The Azure Updates Team announces Public preview: Build and deploy to Azure Container Apps without a Dockerfile from the Azure CLI, and Public preview: Azure Pipelines task to build and deploy to Azure Container Apps and Public preview: GitHub action to build and deploy to Azure Container Apps
- On the Octopus Deploy Blog, Terence Wong writes about Best practices for CI/CD
- Praveen Kumar Sreeram (@PrawinSreeram) covers Azure DevOps – Tips and Tricks – 23 – How to view the secret variables of a Variable Group
- Sam Cogan (@samcogan) writes Bicep Is Not Trying To Compete With Terraform
- Sarah Lean (@TechieLass) explains how to Deploy Azure Bicep using GitHub Actions
⚙️ Hybrid + Multicloud
- Nikita Bajaj writes about General Availability: Azure Automation Hybrid Runbook Worker Extension
- John Miner explains how to Deploy and Configure Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Uros Milanovic describes how to Move Azure SQL Managed Instance across the virtual networks
- Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) covers Azure Automation Hybrid Worker with Azure Arc Enabled Servers
🎭 Identity
- Ilana Smith discusses Microsoft Entra Workload Identities now generally available
- Shobhit Sahay covers Microsoft Entra Change Announcements – November 2022 Train
- Kurt Mackie (@kurmac) reports that Azure Lighthouse Now Has Privileged Identity Management Delegation
- Brock Fabian discusses Azure Lighthouse PIM Enabled Delegations
- Kristina Hotz writes about New Admin Center Unifies Azure AD with Other Identity and Access Products
- David Giard (@DavidGiard) walks through Registering an Application with Azure Active Directory
- Joseph Dadzie introduces Machine Learning based recommendations in Azure AD Access reviews
- Damien Bowden (@damien_bod) walks through Sharing Microsoft Graph permissions and solution Azure App Registrations
🔌 Integration
- Lee Stott (@lee_stott) highlights the Microsoft Graph Python SDK - Public Preview
- Tareq Saifi describes Handling 429 throttling problem in Azure Logic Apps across multiple runs
💡 Internet of Things
- The Azure Sphere Team writes about General availability: Azure Sphere version 22.11 new and updated features
- Sander van de Velde walks through Using the new IoT Hub CosmosDB routing endpoint
- Laziz Turakulov writes about the Industrial Metaverse: Is the future of the Digital Twins visualisation in 3D
📚 Learning
⚖️ Management and Governance
- The Azure Updates Team announces teh General Availability of: Azure Monitor agent custom and IIS logs, and Azure Monitor Logs, custom log API and ingestion-time transformations, and Additional Always Free Services for Azure Free Account and PAYG and 12 months free services for new Azure PAYG customers
- On the Azure blog, Michael Flanakin (@flanakin) discusses Microsoft Cost Management updates - November 2022
- Allison Cordle talks about Azure portal October 2022 updates
- Evgeny Ternovsky announces GA of revamped Custom Logs features
- On episode 448 of the Azure podcast, the podcast team (@AzurePodcast) are joined by Sarah Novotny to discuss Azure and OSS
- Tobias Zimmergren (@zimmergren) explains how to Build sustainable solutions on Azure and save money
- On episode 310 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, Ben Stegink and Scott Hoag (@benstegink, @ciphertxt) cover Azure Quota API and Bastion shareable links
- On the Microsoft Mechanics show, Jeremy Chapman (@deployjeremy) is joined by Jason Githens to discuss Updates to Windows App Management in Intune with Winget
🎬 Media
- The Azure Updates Team talks about Public preview: Call automation capabilities for Azure Communication Services
📱 Mobile
- Junior Saravia talks about Shadows Everywhere in Xamarin.Forms
🌐 Networking
- Jose Moreno (@erjosito) covers Azure Hub And Spoke 2.0
- Tobias Zimmergren Jussi Roine writes about 162 - Lessons learned on Zero Trust in the past year
- Cesar De la Torre Llorente blogs about Cheat-sheet: The new 5G application paradigms and Microsoft Azure
- Abhishek Reddy announces Availability on National Clouds – WordPress on Azure App Service
- Andrew Mathu describes Building a POC for TLS inspection in Azure Firewall
- Wim Matthyssen (@wmatthyssen) writes about Azure Bastion: Combine JIT with Azure Bastion and describes how to Securely connect to your Azure VMs with JIT and a P2S VPN
🔐 Security
- Kurt Mackie (@kurmac) covers Microsoft Sentinel Adds Preview of Incident Tasks Feature
- Lior Tamir covers Whats new: Incident tasks
- Shirleyse Haley covers The 2-Minute Recap: Everything new with Microsoft Security, compliance, and identity
- Keith Fleming presents Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps data protection series: Understand your data types
📦 Storage
- Amber Zhao blogs about Microsoft Purview data owner policy for storage
🔗 Web
- The Azure Updates Team announces Generally Available: New versions supported for languages and frameworks in Azure App Service and Day 0 support for .NET 7.0 on App Service
- The Azure Updates Team announces Public preview: Go language support on Azure App Service
- David Ginn, Phil Jirsa, and Chad Voelker explore Local Development with the Azure Static Web Apps CLI
- Frederik Gheysels walks through Using Named Values with JSON Content in Azure API Management Policies
- Daniel Lawson covers Distributed sessions in ASP.NET Core
- Adrian Hall explains how to Automate your API deployments with Azure API Management and Bicep modules