Azure Weekly

Issue #417 - 7th May 2023

A relatively quiet week (possibly because we're only a few weeks away from the Microsoft BUILD conference). A few interesting articles around storage: Increased remote storage performance with NVMe-enabled Ebsv5 VMs are now generally available, and How to Save 70% on File Data Costs, and another money saving approach: How To Deploy SFTP Service On Azure Container Apps, a Comprehensive Guide.

In DevOps: CI & CD With Azure Synapse Dedicated SQL Pool, and Create Azure Resources Programmatically By Executing Terraform Commands in Go. In Monitoring: Propagate OpenTelemetry Context via Azure Service Bus for Asynchronous .NET Services, and Monitoring Deadlocks in Azure SQL Managed Instance. In Kubenertes: Connect your AKS Edge Essentials cluster to Azure Arc, and Kubernetes External DNS for Azure DNS & AKS.

I wanted to highlight a useful tool by Ira Rainey: Beeching - The Azure Axe - a command line tool to help you quickly and easily delete Azure resources you no longer need. It can delete multiple resource types at the same time, based on a name, part of a name, or by tag value. Resources can be protected from the axe by specifying them in an exclusion list. This allows you to shield resources that you wish to keep.

Finally, I wanted to mention the passing of Carolyn Van Slyck. She was an important member of the Kubernetes community. She was maintainer for Porter and the Cloud Native Application Bundle (CNAB) Specification. She also ran Women Who Go, and was a tech lead for CNCF Contributor Strategy. She won the CNCF "top contributor" award in 2022. I was fortunate enough to interact with her due to her work on Porter when we worked on the Azure CNAB Quickstarts. She was also a great speaker. I found her GopherCon 2019 talk "Design Command-Line Tools People Love" inspiring, and highly recommend you give it a watch too. She will be missed.