Azure Weekly

Issue #408 - 5th March 2023

We're starting to see the confidential computing hardware efforts appear in more "higher level" services. My hope is that these are all steps towards providing hard multi-tenancy across all PaaS offerings in Azure, meaning that it's possible to create high-density, cost-effective, secure multi-tenant SaaS applications (even for regulated industries), so that orgs don't have to struggle with "environment per tenant" type scenarios (which don't scale up from an operational or cost perspective). Two interesting posts are: Serverless meets confidential computing with confidential containers on Azure Container Instances and the more detailed: public preview of confidential containers on Azure Container Instances which highlights an AI workload usecase.

If your organisation is managing hybrid working, this episode of Microsoft Mechanics is very much worth watching. I've forwarded it to a number of customers this week; New Microsoft Intune Suite with Privilege Management, Advanced Analytics, Remote Help & App VPN.

Two interesting DevOps posts - if you are looking to migrate from Azure DevOps, CircleCI, GitLab, Jenkins, and Travis CI to GitHub Actions, this is worth a read: GitHub Actions Importer is now generally available. If you want to move your load testing into Azure, this is a good getting started guide: Putting Your Application to the Test with Azure Load Test.

Finally three articles I enjoyed reading this week: Onboarding users in ASP.NET Core using Azure AD Temporary Access Pass and Microsoft Graph, a Serverless URL Shortener (which I think could be simplified by using Azure Container Apps + YARP), and What is MQTT?.