Azure Weekly
Issue #436 - 17th September 2023
Lots of interesting articles this week. In AI: Deploy ChatGPT Next Web to Azure Container Apps with Individual Account Login in 3 minutes and Azure Docs Copilot – A Generative AI App for Searching Azure Documentation, and Use Azure OpenAI Add your data vector search from code.
In DevOps: Introduction to Azure DevOps Workload identity federation OIDC with Terraform and Boost your CI/CD automation for Synapse SQL Serverless by taking advantage of SSDT and SqlPackage CLI. In analytics: Calling Durable Functions From Fabric Pipelines and From Blobs to Insights: Your Guide to Smart Storage Lifecycle Policies and A Beginners Guide to getting started with the Kusto Query Language in Azure.
Finally, an interesting assortment: Mastering Azure Point-to-Site VPN and DNS Private Resolver, and Access Managed Identity from container inside VM – Azure, and Azure App Service Limit 1 - Remote Storage Windows, and AKS Egress Traffic Demystified
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- Tim Ward, CEO at CluedIn, explains how to Solve complex data challenges with CluedIn and Azure OpenAI
- The Azure Updates Team announces Azure Machine Learning - Public Preview for September
- Aleenah Ansari covers Bing Chat Enterprise now has user-level admin controls plus your data questions answered
- Christian Gero describes how Azure Machine Learning and DataRobot Team Up to Accelerate Value of Generative and Predictive AI
- Rashaud Savage introduces Vision Models in Azure Machine Learning Model Catalog
- Richard Tso (@pseudosound) provides an update on Generative AI in Azure Machine Learning: Operationalizing app development for AI transformation
- Ben Roberts talks about Azure MLOps Challenge Blog: Part 6
- David Giard (@DavidGiard) is joined by Mike Richter to talk about Taking AI Apps to Production on Azure
- Gaurav Mantri presents Azure Docs Copilot – A Generative AI App for Searching Azure Documentation
- On the Azure Medium blog, Valentina Alto covers Generating applications from sketches with LLMs
- Geert Baeke (@GeertBaeke) talks about Use Azure OpenAI Add your data vector search from code
🔎 Analytics
- Michal Bar writes about Azure Data Explorer Web UI updates – August 2023
- Greg Low (@greglow) blogs about Azure Data Factory ADF – Issues with parsing strings in CSVs
- Harun Legoz (@hylegoz) covers Calling Durable Functions From Fabric Pipelines and walks through Triggering Synapse Pipelines from Microsoft Fabric via REST APIs
- Rui Cunha explains how to Boost your CICD automation for Synapse SQL Serverless by taking advantage of SSDT and SqlPackage CLI
- On episode 351 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, Scott Hoag (@ciphertxt) and Ben Stegink (@benstegink): Rock me like a hurricane or Python in Excel
- John Kilmister (@johnkilmister) provides A Beginners Guide to getting started with the Kusto Query Language in Azure
🖥️ Compute
- The Azure Updates Team announces Generally available: Higher default value for Azure Functions Event Hubs max batch size
- The Azure Updates Team announces GA: Latest generation burstable VMs - Bsv2, Basv2, and Bpsv2
- Arpita Chatterjee announces the general availability of new Azure burstable virtual machines
- The Azure Updates Team discusses Azure Service Fabric 9.1 Sixth Refresh Release
🚢 Containers
- Edi Wang explains how to Deploy ChatGPT Next Web to Azure Container Apps with Individual Account Login in 3 minutes
- Houssem Dellai (@HoussemDellai) blogs about AKS Egress Traffic Demystified
- Richard Hooper (@Pixel_Robots) introduces the New az aks copilot Preview Feature for Azure Kubernetes Service AKS in Azure CLI
🗄️ Databases
- The Azure Updates Team announces General Availability: Azure SQL updates for mid-September 2023
- The Azure Updates Team announces the Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB Javascript SDK v4.0 and Public Preview: Configure customer-managed keys on existing Cosmos DB accounts
- The Azure Updates Team announces the Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB Javascript SDK v4.0 and Public Preview: Configure customer-managed keys on existing Cosmos DB accounts
- Kurt Mackie (@kurmac) talks about Microsoft and Oracle Partner on New 'Oracle Database at Azure' Service Offering
- Jose M Jurado (@jmjuradodiaz) describes lessons learned:425:Azure SQL Database Failover Group Endpoint: A Deep Dive into DNS Resolution, 426:Identifying and Mitigating Query Regressions in Azure SQL using Query Data Store and covers 427:BUFFER IO in Azure SQL Database Query Data Store: An Expert's Guide
- Sandip Khandelwal writes about Best practices for utilizing Azure SQL to host Mainframe Data Tier & Workloads
🛠️ Developer Tools
- On Visual Studio Magazine, David Ramel (@dramel) explains What's New for GitHub Copilot Chat in Visual Studio Code v1.82, blogs about Mads K's Favorite Features in New Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 2 and highlights What's New in First Release Candidates for .NET 8, .NET MAUI, ASP.NET Core and EF8
- On the Visual Studio blog, Adrian Murphy writes Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 2 has arrived
- Christine Ruana discusses Balancing User Updates with Security Best Practices for Visual Studio
- Elio Struyf (@eliostruyf) explains how to Add a custom themable icon to Visual Studio Code
🔩 DevOps
- The Azure Updates Team blogs about View trends of client-side metrics across test runs in Azure Load Testing and explains how to Configure load testing in your CI/CD pipeline from Azure portal
- Gloridel Morales blogs about September patches for Azure DevOps Server and Team Foundation Server
- Eric van Wijk announces the Public preview of Workload identity federation for Azure Pipelines
- Ha Duong explains how to Build image with containerised self-hosted Azure DevOps agent and private Azure Container Registry
- Jared Holgate provides an Introduction to Azure DevOps Workload identity federation OIDC with Terraform
⚙️ Hybrid + Multicloud
- Wim Matthyssen (@wmatthyssen) walks through Troubleshooting Azure Arc: Resolve error Current user does not have Log Analytics Contributor rights on any workspace at the Resource Group level within the subscription when configuring SQL best practices assessment
- Matthew Quickenden covers Interesting changes to Arc Agent 1.34 with expanded detected properties
🎭 Identity
- Alex Simons Azure discusses Microsoft Entra ID named leader in KuppingerColes Access Management Leadership Compass
- Anna Barhudarian describes How Tenant Restrictions v2 Can be Used to Prevent Data Exfiltration
- Gerasimos Alexiou blogs about Access Managed Identity from container inside VM – Azure
- On episode 203 of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast, Tobias Zimmergren & Jussi Roine (@CtrlAltAzure) talk about PIM, PAM and PAW - what and how in Azure
🔌 Integration
- The Azure Updates Team announces Preview: Cross Region Restore CRR for Recovery Services Agent MARS using Azure Backup
- Reid Carlberg covers File and Document Management Considerations for Enterprise B2B SaaS Startups
- Sung Gun Lee discusses Eventhub How to receive diagnostic log from Storage Accounts on different Subscriptions to EH
⚖️ Management and Governance
- The Azure Updates Team announces General availability: Selective Disk Backup and Restore in Enhanced Policy for Azure VM Backup
- Vlad Rodriguez covers Microsoft Purview DevOps policies for Azure SQL MI enters Public Preview
- Brad Watts walks through Sending Azure Cost Management to Azure Data Explorer/Fabric KQL DB
- Zachary Cavanell writes about Data Security Exploit Real Crime Case + How Microsoft Purview is Designed to Detect & Respond
- Piyush Dash explores the new capabilities with Datadog—An Azure Native ISV Service
- David Giard (@DavidGiard) talks about Azure Application Insights Alerts
- Cary Sun (@SifuSun) describes How to configure Notification with Free SendGrid Account of Azure at Veeam Backup and Replication v12
🎬 Media
- Daysha Carter talks about Azure Communication Services September 2023 Feature Updates
🌐 Networking
- The Azure Updates Team announces Azure Front Door Standard and Premium support bring your own certificated based domain validation and General availability: Sensitive Data Protection for Application Gateway Web Application Firewall
- Calvin Cai explains how to Integrate Application Gateway with App Service behind Private Endpoint
- Hanli Ren walks through Navigating Common VNET Injection Challenges with Azure Spring Apps
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) writes about Mastering Azure Point-to-Site VPN and DNS Private Resolver
- On episode 262 of the Azure DevOps podcast, Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) is joined by Chris Woodruff (@cwoodruff) to talk about Network Programming
🔐 Security
📦 Storage
- The Azure Updates Team announces General availability: Azure Backup support for Azure Files in China North2, China East 2, China North 3, and China East 3 and Generally available: Azure Ultra Disk Storage is now available in UK West
- Yoav Dobrin writes From Blobs to Insights: Your Guide to Smart Storage Lifecycle Policies
🔗 Web
- The Azure Updates Team announces WordPress on App Service - Free hosting plan now in Public Preview
- Hang Wang talks about Run Your Spring Boot 3 App on Azure Spring Apps
- Selina Sun provides a five part series covering Azure App Service limits: 1 - Remote Storage Windows, 2 - Temp File Usage Windows, 3 - Connection Limit TCP Connection, SNAT and TLS Version, 4 - CPU Windows and 5 - Memory Windows
- Damien Bowden (@damien_bod) explains how to Implement a secure web application using nx Standalone Angular and an ASP.NET Core server
- On The New Stack, B. Cameron Gain writes WebAssembly Reaches a Cloud Native Milestone
⚙️ Azure Virtual Desktop
- Michael Hildebrand blogs about Windows 365 Enterprise – Points of Clarification and PoC Proven Practices