Azure Weekly Newsletter Issue #168
powered by endjin
It's a huge edition of Azure Weekly this week, so brace yourselves.
Some particularly interesting announcements: there is now Virtual Machine Serial Console access, Deployment Groups in VSTS/TFS is now generally available, and Soft delete for Azure Storage Blobs is now in public preview.
Now for the other announcements, which I've put in the order of the newsletter's categories:
- General availability: Azure Scheduled Events
- Azure DNS Private Zones now available in public preview
- General availability: Disable BGP route propagation for virtual network routes
- General availability: Standard Load Balancer
- Announcing the general availability of Azure Files share snapshot
- Azure SDK for Go v15 is available
- Azure SQL Data Warehouse now generally available in all Azure regions worldwide
- Azure Data Factory now supports Azure AD authentication
- Azure Databricks, industry-leading analytics platform powered by Apache Spark
- Microsoft Power BI achieves HITRUST CSF certification
- Azure Event Hubs integration with Apache Spark now generally available
- Azure Event Hubs Geo-DR configurations, now enabled in all Azure regions
- Public preview: Event Hubs for Go
- Now in Public Preview: Visual Studio tools for Azure Stream Analytics on IoT Edge
- Announcing Terraform availability in the Azure Marketplace
- Announcing Azure Service Health general availability – configure your alerts today
- Azure Monitor - General availability of multi-dimensional metrics APIs
- Support for tags in cost management APIs is now available
If you're into game development, there has been an influx of videos on Channel 9 from the Level Up show in the past week. View them all on the Level Up channel.
There is an article describing how to Accelerate Your GDPR compliance with Microsoft Cloud, a wide-spanning video on how to Build a Company in Azure, and Tony Smith writes: So you want to run an Azure Hothouse?
In another interesting article, we're told how to Use the power of Azure Functions and Cognitive Services to collect Geolocation information by Patrick van Kleef.
Finally, a gentle reminder about the Global Azure Bootcamp 2018. Do get involved!
If you have any content you'd like to contribute to the newsletter, please tweet @AzureWeekly or ping an email to AzureWeekly@endjin.com.
Compute
Covering: Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Functions, Batch, Service Fabric, Cloud Services
- On the Azure blog, Corey Sanders (@CoreySandersWA) writes about Virtual Machine Serial Console access, on Channel 9, talks about Azure Serial Console with Hariharan Jayaraman and Scott Hanselman also talks about Azure Virtual Machine Serial Console with Hariharan Jayaraman on Azure Friday
- On the Azure blog, the Azure updates team announces the General availability: Azure Scheduled Events
- Mahesh M Kshirsagar discusses Running ASP.Net Core 2.0 web application on Windows Azure Virtual Machine Scaleset VMSS
- Patrick van Kleef describes how to Use the power of Azure Functions and Cognitive Services to collect Geolocation information
- On Github, Chris Gillum (@cgillum) describes the Azure Functions Durable Extension Beta 3.1 release
- John Savill describes how to Use an Application Image from the Azure Marketplace using PowerShell
- On TechNet, Stefan Stranger (@sstranger) shares some Lessons learned deploying Azure MarketPlace Virtual Machine
- On the Kloud blog, AJ Bajada writes Deploy VM via ARM template: Purchase eligibility failed
- On MSDN, Ali Mazaheri writes Terraform and Azure Better Together! Deploying Azure Function via Terraform
- Also on MSDN, Lee Stott (@lee_stott) posts some Blockchain Azure samples and resources for building interesting Blockchain projects and solutions
Networking
Covering: Virtual Network, Load Balancer, Application Gateway, VPN Gateway, Azure DNS, Content Delivery Network, Traffic Manager, ExpressRoute, Network Watcher, Azure DDos Protection,
- On the Azure blog, Subra Sarma announces that Azure DNS Private Zones now available in public preview
- Also on the Azure blog, the Azure updates team writes about the General availability: Disable BGP route propagation for virtual network routes
- The Azure updates team announces the General availability: Standard Load Balancer and on the Azure blog, Yousef Khalidi writes about the The new Azure Load Balancer – 10x scale increase
- On MSDN, Igor Pagliai (@igorpag) describes the Azure Load Balancer – A new Standard SKU for Premium Capabilities
- Also on MSDN, David Sanchez writes that Azure Application Gateway uses the Load Balancer
- John Savill describes how to Easily create multiple subnets in an Azure Virtual Network
Storage
Covering: Blob storage, Queue storage, File storage, Disk storage, Data Lake Store, StorSimple, Backup
- On the Azure blog, Michael Hauss announces that Soft delete for Azure Storage Blobs now in public preview
- Also on the Azure blog, Rena Shah announces the General availability of Azure Files share snapshot
Web & Mobile
Covering: App Service, Web apps, Mobile apps, API apps, Content Delivery Network, Media Services, Azure Search
- On MSDN, Michael S. Hansen describes VSTS/TFS Continuous Deployment to App Service Environment ASE after Disabling TLS 1.0 and talks about Azure Active Directory Authentication Easy Auth with Custom Backend Web API
- On MSDN, Vijetha Marinagammanavar blogs about Getting started with Azure App Services Development
Containers
Covering: Container Service, Container Instances, Container Registry, Web App for Containers
- On Microsoft + Open Source, Greg DeRenne discusses Deploying a Java application on Azure Container Service and Cosmos DB
- On Channel 9, Alena Hall (@lenadroid) presents Part 3 of 4: Create a Web App for Containers and set up a web hook The Open Source Show
- Mark Heath (@mark_heath) describes Serverless Media Processing with Azure Container Instances
- On MSDN, Andreas Helland writes Building Microservices with AKS and VSTS – Part 1
Databases
Covering: SQL Database, Azure Database for MySQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, SQL Data Warehouse, SQL Server Stretch Database, Azure Cosmos DB, Table storage, Redis Cache, Data Factory
- On the Azure blog, Ayo Olubeko announces that Azure SQL Data Warehouse now generally available in all Azure regions worldwide
- Also on the Azure blog, Kuber Sharma explains How Catania secures public data with Azure SQL Data Warehouse
- On Capside, José Luis Martínez describes Using Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL DataWarehouse with Perl
- Alice Kupcik writes Preview: SQL Database Transparent Data Encryption with Azure Key Vault configuration checklist
- On MSDN, Gennady Kostinsky explains how to Migrate SQL Server databases from a Google Cloud Engine instance to Azure SQL Database using the Azure Database Migration Service
- Also on MSDN, Mohamed Baioumy describes how to Export Azure SQL Database to local path
- Jose M Jurado (@jmjuradodiaz) posts Lesson Learned #33: How to make "cliconfg" to work with SQL Alias (on-premises) to Azure SQL Azure (PaaS), Lesson Learned #34: Does Azure SQL Database support OPENJSON? and Lesson Learned #35: How to transfer the login and user from OnPremise to Azure SQL Database
- Andr Csar Rodrigues walks through Migrating data On-Premises to Azure with the new Azure Database Migration Service VPN Site-to-Site
- Gennady Kostinsky writes Troubleshoot Site-to-Site VPN Connectivity Issues with On-Premises Source DB for Azure Database Migration Service
- On the MSSQL Tips site, John Martin provides an Introduction to Azure SQL Database Managed Instances
- On the .NET Curry blog, Shreya Verma writes about the New SQL Graph Features in Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2017
- On the Azure podcast, the Azure podcast team and guest Andrew Liu present Episode 221 - Graph API
- On the Xamarin blog, Matt Soucoup describes Performing Geospatial Calculations with Azure CosmosDB
- On Channel 9, James Montemagno and Brandon Minnick talk about Scalable + Secure Data with CosmosDB for Mobile on The Xamarin Show
- On Code Project, Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan describes Utilizing Azure Redis Cache as backend for chat app
- On the MSSQL Tips site, John Miner writes Exploring Azure Table Storage with PowerShell
Analytics
Covering: HDInsight, Stream Analytics, Data Lake Analytics, Azure Databricks, Power BI Embedded, Data Catalog
- On the Azure blog, the Azure updates team announces that Azure Data Factory now supports Azure AD authentication
- On the Azure blog, Rohan Kumar delves into Azure Databricks, industry-leading analytics platform powered by Apache Spark
- John Macintyre describes how to Unlock your data's potential with Azure SQL Data Warehouse and Azure Databricks
- Matt Goswell discusses Implementation patterns for big data and data warehouse on Azure
- On MSDN, Wesley Backelant (@WesleyBackelant) writes Modernizing "Did my dad influence me?" – Part 2
- On the Power BI blog, Adam Wilson blogs about Microsoft Power BI achieves HITRUST CSF certification
- Natalie Afshar blogs about Analytics on the go with Power BI
- On the MSSQL Tips site, Siddharth Mehta (@siddhumehta) explains how to Integrate data driven Visio diagrams in Power BI Reports
- Devin Knight (@knight_devin) posts Power BI Custom Visuals Class Module 95 – VitaraCharts–MicroChart and Module 96 – Enlighten Waffle Chart
- On the Tallan blog, Kenneth Philcox introduces the Calendar by Tallan Power BI Custom Visualization
AI + Machine Learning
Covering: Machine Learning, Bots, Computer Vision API, Face API, Bing Web Search API, Customised speech service, Custom Vision Service, Language Understanding Intelligent Service, Bing Custom Search
- On MSDN, Buck Woody gives an Introduction to the Microsoft AI Platform
- On Channel 9, Seth Juarez talks about Operationalization of ML model using Azure ML and Kubernetes cluster with Parashar Shah Part 4/4 AI Show
- Jamie Dalton describes YOLO on Azure Deep Learning Virtual Machine Windows
- On the Revolution Analytics blog, David Smith (@revodavid) explains how to Generate image captions with the Computer Vision API
- Greg Oliver walks through Using Microsoft Azure Video Indexer
- On MSDN, Natalie Afshar explains How to build a chat bot in 10 minutes
Internet of Things
Covering: IoT Hub, IoT Edge, Event Grid, Stream Analytics, Notification Hubs, Time Series Insights, Azure Location Based Services
- On the Azure blog, Sabee Grewal announces that Azure Event Hubs integration with Apache Spark now generally available
- Also on the Azure blog, the Azure updates team announces the Public preview: Event Hubs for Go
- Shubha Vijayasarathy writes that Azure Event Hubs Geo-DR configurations, now enabled in all Azure regions
- On Channel 9, Rich Lander and Bahram Banisadr talk about Cloud scale events with Azure Event Grid On .NET
- On MSDN, Jie Su writes Now in Public Preview: Visual Studio tools for Azure Stream Analytics on IoT Edge
- On Microsoft Cloud Show, Andrew Connell and Chris Johnson present Episode 244: Developer Surveys & Azure Stream Analytics
- On the Kloud blog, Darren Doc Robinson describes Building a Teenager Notification Service using Azure IoT an Azure Function, Microsoft Flow, Mongoose OS and a Micro Controller
- On TechNet, Sasindu Kavinda (@kaviliya123) writes Connect Your IoT Devices to Cloud with Azure IoT Hub
- Also on Channel 9, Olivier Bloch talks about TPM Based Authentication For IoT Devices with Tony Ercolano on the Internet of Things Show and talks about the Azure IoT Hub features for device management with Chris Green
Integration
Covering: Logic Apps, Service Bus, API Management, BizTalk Services
- On the Codit blog, Sagar Sharma describes Installing and Configuring on-premise data gateway for Logic Apps
- On MSDN, David Burg explains how to Enable SAP NCo library logging/tracing for Azure On-Premises Data Gateway and the SAP Connector
- Also on MSDN, Justin Conway writes about the Important Updates About Us and Access Control Service
Security + Identity
Covering: Security Center, Azure Active Directory for developers, Key Vault, Azure Active Directory, Azure Active Directory B2C, Azure Active Directory Domain Services, Multi-Factor Authentication
- On MSDN, Latha Natarajan and Sujith Nair explain how to Accelerate Your GDPR compliance with Microsoft Cloud
- On TechNet, Yuri Diogenes (@yuridiogenes) writes Exploring the Identity & Access dashboard in Azure Security Center and talks about Going beyond the signature with behavior analytics in Azure Security Center
- Also on TechNet, 'Kemckinn' describes Easy Configuration of the Azure Information Protection Scanner
- On MSDN, Ben Perkins (@csharpguitar) covers Adding users to an Azure Active Directory domain and walks through Adding groups to an Azure Active Directory domain
- Also on MSDN, 'SailingRock' writes about Multi-tenant apps and Azure AD
- On TechNet, Matt Soseman points to numerous Azure Active Directory Resources
Developer Tools
Covering: Visual Studio Team Services, Azure DevTest Labs, HockeyApp, Developer tools and SDKs, Xamarin, Storage Explorer
- On MSDN, Vlad Vinogradsky posts some API Management Release notes – March 28, 2018
- Also on MSDN, Roopesh Nair announces that VSTS Deployment Groups is now generally available: sharing of targets and more
- Alex Nichols describes Whats new in VSTS Sprint 131 Update
- Sandeep Chadda writes about the Announcement: Publish markdown files from your git repository to VSTS Wiki
- Simon Waight (@simonwaight) explains how to Provide non-admin users with read-only access to Service Endpoints in VSTS
- Justin Marks writes that Deadline extended for connecting VSTS accounts to AzureAD
- Shmulik Ahituv writes VSTS Gems- Release gates
- Michael Crump (@mbcrump) carries on the Azure Tips and Tricks series, with Part 106 - Introducing Azure Tips and Tricks Video. Also, carrying on with the 'An end to end scenario with Azure App Service, API Apps, SQL, VSTS and CI/CD' sub-series, we have Part 107 - Day 6, Part 108 - Day 7 and Part 109 - Day 8
- On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman and James Montemagno present Azure + Visual Studio + Xamarin = Great Mobile Apps
- James van Den Berg writes that Microsoft Azure DevTest LAB is Great for Education and DevOps
- Also on Channel 9, Donovan Brown talks about Using Habitat in Azure with Nick Rycar on Azure Friday
- On the .NET Curry blog, Sandeep Chadda discusses Microsoft's Devops story
- On the Azure blog, the Azure updates team announces that Azure SDK for Go v15 is available
Management Tools
Covering: Microsoft Azure portal, Azure Policy, Cost Management, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, Site Recovery, Scheduler
- On the Azure blog, Anirudh Cavale announces the Azure Monitor–General availability of multi-dimensional metrics APIs
- Also on the Azure blog, Arun Chandrasekhar announces the Terraform availability in the Azure Marketplace
- Dushyant Gill announces the Azure Service Health general availability – configure your alerts today
- On Channel 9, the Azure team posts an Introductory video on Azure Service Health
- Also on the Azure blog, Vinod Kurpad announces that Support for tags in cost management APIs is now available
- Martynas Valkunas blogs about Azure Subscription Management with Resource Providers
- On MSDN, Peter Groenewegen describes Deployment Pipelines For Versioned Azure Resource Manager Template Deployments
- Callon Campbell describes How to Lock Azure Resources and Prevent Unexpected Changes or Deletions
- Also on MSDN, Ganesh Alalasundaram provides a Beginner's Guide to Azure Automation
- John Savill covers Writing to files with Azure Automation
- Callon Campbell talks about Getting Started with Application Insights for ASP.NET Core and explains How to Disable Azure Application Insights in ASP.NET Core
- On the Clear Pointe blog, the team point out their upcoming Azure Log Analytics Webinar
- Sam Cogan (@samcogan) writes about the Azure Cloud Shell Button WordPress Plugin
- Steve Buchanan (@buchatech) writes about the Azure Mobile App
Microsoft Azure Stack
Covering: Azure Stack
- On TechNet, Robert Kuehfus describes how to Drive consistency with Azure Stack and CSP
Thought Leadership from endjin
- Unlocking Digital Transformation with Azure API Management - a training session from endjin, explaining what Digital Transformation is, and how to use Azure API Management to take your first steps. Three versions are available: 5 minute exec summary, 20 minute overview or 50 minute deep dive.
- How to plan your cloud transformation journey - an article explaining how you should use the various bits of thought leadership content from endjin to plan your cloud journey.
- API Maturity Matrix - a spreadsheet to help you assess your organization's ability to build, test, deploy, manage and monetize an API Platform.
- Azure Technology Selector - a flowchart which guides you through the process of chosing the best Azure service for your needs.
- Cloud Comparison Poster - a free poster, comparing the three major cloud platforms - Azure, AWS & Google Cloud Platform. For more information, see the accompanying blog series.
- Cloud Migration Process - a free poster, outlining our process for cloud adoption.
- Cloud Adoption: Risk & Mitigations - The Swiss Cheese Model - a free poster from endjin & Hymans Robertson outlining the risk and mitigations of adopting public cloud.
- Embracing Disruption: Financial Services & the Microsoft Cloud - a free ebooklet from endjin describing how companies in FS can take advantage of Azure.
Solutions from endjin
- Modern Data Platform Blueprint - our opinionated architecture over Azure Data Lake, which solves common security, ingestion, and data processing requirements.
- API Economy Platform Blueprint - our solution accelerator for building an API first architecure on Azure.
Useful Links
- The Developer's Guide to Microsoft Azure (2nd Edition) - ebook from Microsoft showcasing architectural approaches and common design patterns you face when building modern applications.
- Azure Virtual Datacenter - ebook from Microsoft highlighting an approach to isolation, security, and trust in the Microsoft cloud.
- Cyber Security Demystified - ebook from Microsoft describing how to keep your organisation safe.
- Microsoft's What is Azure poster - a visual overview of Azure's services and features.
- Microsoft Azure Essentials: Fundamentals of Azure - a free ebook from Microsoft Press, by Michael S. Collier and Robin E. Shahan.
- Data Science in the Cloud with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning and R - a free ebook on Azure Machine Learning, by Stephen F. Elston.
- Protecting Data in Microsoft Azure - a whitepaper that describes the various mechanism you can you can leverage for managing sensitive data in the Azure platform.
- A-Z of the Azure ecosystem - a slide deck outlining current Azure services.
- Azure Architecture Center - guidance from the Patterns & Practices team covering API Design, API implementation, Autoscaling, Background jobs, CDN, Caching, Data partitioning, Monitoring and diagnostics, Retry, Scalability and availability.
- Azure Architect's Reference - if you are an architect responsible for building an application on Azure, or are trying to figure out how you could migrate an application and need to dig deep into the workload, cost, security, capacity, availability, deployment and operational modelling this invaluable resource should be your first stop. An open source project, with contributions from several experienced architects, it gathers data from many different references into a single, useful guide that is constantly updated by the community.
- Azure Table Storage Design Guide - a guide from the storage team.
- Azure infrastructure services implementation guidelines - key design and implementation guidelines for deploying an IT workload in Azure infrastructure services.
- Azure Speed Test - a simple web tool that measures the latency between you and Azure Datacenters to suggest which might be fastest for you location.
- Azure Websites Cheatsheet - everything you need to know about configuring & managing Azure Websites on a single page.
- SQL Database Migration Wizard - a very useful tool for migrating existing SQL databases to SQL Azure; will fix some common conversion errors automatically.
- Azure SQL DTU Calculator - a tool to help you determine the number of DTUs for your existing SQL Server database(s) as well as a recommendation of the minimum performance level and service tier that you need before you migrate to Azure SQL Database.
- Microsoft Azure Symbol/Icon Set - a set of Visio and PowerPoint shapes for use in architecture diagrams / presentations.
- Service Bus Explorer - a free and open source tool for managing and exploring Azure Service Bus(including Event Hubs).
- Best practices for designing Azure Resource Manager Templates - guidance based on the whitepaper 'World Class ARM Templates Considerations and Proven Practices'.
- Microsoft Cloud Networking for Enterprise Architects - a downloadable guide to Azure networking, covering topics such as cloud migration and networking for PaaS and SaaS services
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