Azure Weekly

Issue #428 - 23rd July 2023

The Microsoft Inspire event happened this week, so it's a packed issues with lots of (AI) announcements. It's also been a good week for interesting blog posts; first off Azure Container Apps, Bicep, bring your own certificates and custom domains, and Exploring the New Preview Features in Azure Container Registry, and a good high level overview of Docker for Developers: Understanding the Core Concepts.

One of the biggest fundamental changes to Azure Resource Management (ARM) has been announced: ARM Deployment Stacks now Public Preview, Deployment Stacks is a new resource type for managing a collection of Azure resources as a single unit for faster update and delete, as well as more granular capabilities for preventing unwanted changes to resources. It's a very welcome addition to the platform. There's also a good post on: Azure DevOps Pipelines: Practices for Scaling Templates

Another big announcement for anyone with data / compute intensive workloads: Introducing Microsoft Azure Boost Preview which enables 200 Gbps networking throughput and remote storage throughput up to 10 GBps and 400K IOPS, enabling the fastest storage workloads available today.

There are a couple of interesting security posts: Azure Role Assignment Hygiene and Incident Triage: Microsoft Defender for Cloud Attack Path Analysis and Microsoft Sentinel. There's also a very interesting tool which enables you to generate technical Markdown documentation for your Azure Logic Apps. I'm hoping a Power Automate version will follow!

Finally, we've published part 2 of our Decision Maker's Guide to Microsoft Fabric series, which focuses on Generative AI. You can find part 1 here.