Azure Weekly

Issue #510 - 6th April 2025

Two big conferences happened this week: FabCon in Las Vegas, and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 in London, as you can imagine the content this week is heavily slanted towards the announcement from those events. Here are the highlights of the Fabric announcements (many more in the Analytics section:) Copilot and AI Capabilities are now accessible to all paid SKUs in Microsoft Fabric, and The next evolution of OneLake security Preview, and What's new with OneLake shortcuts, and Exciting New Features for Mirroring for Azure SQL in Fabric, and Mirroring in Fabric - What's new, and Microsoft Fabric RTI:Data Agent conversations on real-time telemetry.

My colleagues Barry Smart and & Ed Freeman from endjin were at FabCon and have posted some daily summaries of the event on LinkedIn. Barry's Pre-Con Day 1, Day 1, and Day 2. Ed's Day 1, and Day 2.

There are a large number of announcements from KubeCon (check out the Containers and Networking sections for more details), but the most noteworthy to me is that Azure Linux 3.0 now Generally Available with Azure Kubernetes Service v1.32. Other Cloud Native related highlights this week, include: Configure time-based scaling in Azure Container Apps, and AKS networking made easy: Your comprehensive guide, and Application Gateway for Containers: a not-so-gentle intro 4.

Other interesting articles this week, include: Azure Bicep optional module names explained, and Trusted Signing Public Preview Update, and finally: Hyperlight Wasm: Azure Goes the Final Wasi Mile