Azure Friday (Audio)

Hariharan Jayaraman joins Scott Hanselman to talk about how HashiCorp Terraform provides an easy way to define and deploy cloud infrastructure using HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL). This custom language is easy to write and easy to understand, and Hariharan gives you the steps to start using Terraform with Azure. For more information, see: Install and configure Terraform to provision VMs and other infrastructure into Azure (docs) Terraform-providers/terraform-provider-azurerm (GitHub) Microsoft Azure Provider (Terraform site) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @hariharan_msft

Dan Taylor joins Scott Hanselman to talk about being able to get a code-level analysis of slow requests in production using the Application Insights profiler for Azure App Service. Dan shows Scott how to use the Application Insights Profiler to quickly get to the bottom of two different performance issues in an ASP.NET Web App. For more information, see: Application Insights Overview Profiling live Azure web apps with Application Insights (docs) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @dandttaylor

Ziv Rafalovich joins Scott Hanselman to talk about improvements to the planned maintenance experience in Azure, including better visibility and control of maintenance events that impact virtual machine availability. Learn how to create alerts, discover which virtual machines are scheduled for maintenance, and proactively start the maintenance using the Azure portal, REST API, Azure PowerShell, or Azure CLI. Note: During September 2017, you can try the new experience by creating new VMs in the US West Central region using this special link to the Azure portal: https://aka.ms/PlannedMaintenancePreview. For more information, see: Planned maintenance for Linux virtual machines Planned maintenance for Windows virtual machines in Azure Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday

Dushyant Gill joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Azure Service Health. When issues in Azure services affect your business-critical resources, Azure Service Health notifies you and your teams, helps you understand the impacts of the issue, and keeps you updated as the issue is resolved. It also helps you prepare for planned maintenance and changes that could affect the availability of your resources. [01:34] - Personalizing your view of Azure Service Health [03:32] - Tracking issues and keeping your stakeholders informed [04:48] - Filter Azure Service Health issues [05:30] - Pinning filtered world maps to your dashboard [07:05] - Azure Service Health is more than just up/down status [08:05] - Setting up notifications [10:30] - Integration with PagerDuty For more information, see: Azure Service Health (overview) Azure Service Health (docs) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @dushyantgill

Dan Taylor joins Scott Hanselman to talk about how the Snapshot Debugger in Application Insights can help you identify the root cause of issues in your production environment without having to repro them locally. Dan shows how by adding the Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.SnapshotCollector NuGet package to your app, you can get view full-process snapshots containing local variables the moment exceptions are thrown in production. For more information, see: Application Insights Overview Debug snapshots on exceptions (docs) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @dandttaylor

Kirill Gavrylyuk shows Scott Hanselman a new way to try Azure Cosmos DB free of charge, no sign-up or credit card required. It's a perfect way to get to know Azure Cosmos DB better, without commitment. For more information, see: Try Cosmos DB Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @kirillg_msft

Evgeny Ternovsky joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Azure Log Analytics and its upgraded search platform, including a dedicated query experience and a powerful new query language. Already available in Application Insights, this upgrade unifies the analytics experience across Azure. For more information, see: What is Log Analytics (documentation) Analytics Query Language (documentation) Announcing the New and Improved Azure Log Analytics (blog) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday

Apurva Joshi (AJ) joins Scott Hanselman to talk about App Service providing built-in image support to ASP.NET Core, Node.js, PHP, and Ruby on Linux, as well as by enabling web developers to bring their own Docker-formatted container images, which in turn supports languages like Java, Python, Go, and more. For more information, see: Web App on Linux Documentation (docs) See what's new for Azure App Service - Web App on Linux (Preview) (blog) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @apurvajo

Mark Scurrell joins Scott Hanselman to talk about low-priority virtual machines (VMs) from Azure Batch, which you can use to reduce the cost of Batch workloads. Low-priority VMs make new types of Batch workloads possible by providing a large amount of compute power that is also economical, taking advantage of surplus capacity in Azure when it's available. When you specify low-priority VMs in your pools, Azure Batch can automatically use this surplus when available. For more information, see: Azure Batch (overview) Compare Batch pricing with low-priority VMs Use low-priority VMs with Batch (docs) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @mscurrell

Kelly Anderson joins Scott Hanselman to show how Azure Site Recovery can help save the day to keep your applications available in the event of a disaster. For more information, see: Azure Site Recovery (overview) Azure Site Recovery (docs) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday