Azure Friday (Audio)

Scott talks to Ahmet Alp Balkan about Docker and how it integrates with Visual Studio using an extension. You'll see how you can create and install docker onto Virtual Machines in Azure easily. Then we'll create an ASP.NET 5 application and publish it to Docker on a VM running Linux in Azure.

Scott talks to Mahesh Thiagarajan about some of the new innovations just released in Azure Resource Manager. Thousands of VMs can be created and spun up in parallel, network adapters are first class citizens, and much more!

Scott talks to Mahesh Thiagarajan about the new Azure JSON-based APIs for Azure that now include Compute, Network, and Storage. Orchestrating large system deployments is easier and more declarative than ever.

In this next part, we build on what we learned in Azure PowerShell 101 and now create a more sophisticated script to manage Azure Storage from the command line.

Scott continues his PowerShell series with Guang Yang. In this episode we learn how to create and manage Azure Virtual Machines entirely from the command line!

Scott talks to Jai Haridas about Azure Table Storage. This incredibly fast no-sql store is perfect for large scale Key/Value lookups. We'll create a sample application and explore the underlying HTTP REST calls to the backend Azure Storage API.

Liam Cavanagh explains how the to use Azure Search in your application to give "suggestions" as you type! You can get suggestions almost instantly, choose how your want your input tokenized, and whether Azure Search to give results even if your input is misspelled and apply "fuzzy" logic.

Scott talks to Azure Search Program Manager Liam Cavanagh about how Azure Search can search intelligently in multiple languages! You can use Microsoft's language analyzer as well as Lucene's!

Scott talks to Program Manager Jai Haridas who school us all on Azure Blob Storage 101. We'll create a simple application that accesses Blog Storage and we'll even use Fiddler talk watch the actual HTTP REST calls to the Azure backend!

Guang joins Scott to demystify the concepts behind Azure Resource Manager. We talk about how Resource Manager and the Gallery fit into the Azure ecosystem. We'll automate the creation of our new resources from the command line with PowerShell.