Azure Friday

Matt Nielson joins Donovan Brown to show off a preview of App Service Domain, which gives you a first-class experience in the Azure portal to create and manage domains that will be hosted on Azure DNS for your Azure services such as Web Apps, Traffic Manager, Virtual Machines, and more. For more information, see: Announcing the preview of App Service domain (blog) Buy a custom domain name for Azure Web Apps (docs) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @DonovanBrown Follow @AzureFriday

Aravind Krishna shows Scott Hanselman how to get started with the Table API for Azure Cosmos DB, the globally distributed multi-model database. Using the API, applications running on Azure Table storage can take advantage of secondary indexes, turnkey global distribution, dedicated throughput, and single digit millisecond latency with 99.99% comprehensive SLAs. For more information, see: Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB: Table API Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @arkramac

Kirill Gavrylyuk talks Azure Cosmos DB and Graphs with Scott, exploring why we need graphs, and what we can we do with graphs on Azure Cosmos DB. Azure Cosmos DB offers native graph gremlin API support in addition MongoDB, SQL, and others. Graphs in Azure Cosmos DB also enjoy the same global distribution, low latency, limitless throughput, and 99.99% SLAs as other APIs. For more information, see: Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB: Graph API Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @kirillg_msft

Justin Luk joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the Azure Cloud Shell, a browser-based shell experience hosted in the cloud. With Cloud Shell's built-in authentication and pre-installed tools, getting work done on Azure has never been easier. For more information, see: Azure Cloud Shell (docs) Azure Cloud Shell (overview) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @whosjluk

Brendan Burns joins Donovan Brown to discuss the use of Kubernetes with Azure Container Instances. The Azure Container Instances Connector for Kubernetes allows Kubernetes clusters to deploy Azure Container Instances, which enables on-demand and nearly instantaneous container compute, orchestrated by Kubernetes, without having VM infrastructure to manage and while still leveraging the portable Kubernetes API. See also: Azure Container Instances with Sean McKenna on Azure Friday For more information, see: Azure Container Instances (Overview) Azure Container Instances (Documentation) Azure Container Instances (Pricing) Fast and Easy Containers: Azure Container Instances (Azure Blog) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @DonovanBrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @BrendanBurns

Sean McKenna joins Donovan Brown to talk about the newest service in Azure, Azure Container Instances. Azure Container Instances makes it possible to run Linux and Windows containers directly on Azure infrastructure, without setting up and managing VMs and without adopting a higher-level service. See how easy it is to create and manage containers with the Azure CLI and the Azure portal, and learn how Azure Container Instances relates to container orchestrators, such as Kubernetes. See also: Using Kubernetes with Azure Container Instances with Brendan Burns on Azure Friday For more information, see: Azure Container Instances (Overview) Azure Container Instances (Docs) Azure Container Instances (Pricing) Fast and Easy Containers: Azure Container Instances (Azure Blog) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @DonovanBrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @SeanMcKMSFT

Eric Radzikowski joins Scott Hanselman on Azure Friday to discuss how developers can increase application availability by using Azure Scheduled Events to prepare for virtual machine maintenance. Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @EricRadzikowski

You love App Service, but you need to run your apps securely inside of an Azure Virtual Network. Plus having a little (or a lot) more horsepower would be nice, too. Stefan Schackow joins Scott Hanselman for a whirlwind tour of the new Isolated App Service offering: D-Seriesv2 workers running App Service all inside the secure “moat” of your Azure virtual network. For more information, see Introduction to App Service Environment. Create a Free Account (Azure)

Josh Caplan, a Sr. Program Manager from the Azure Analysis Services team, joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can get started using Azure Analysis Services with Azure SQL DB and Data Warehouse. It includes how to build your first data model and how to use Analysis Services to benefit your users. Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @azurefriday Follow @JoshCaplan1984

Matt Reat gives Scott Hanselman an overview of the new Network Watcher service and some of its features. Azure Network Watcher is Network Monitoring and Diagnostic service that recently became generally available in Azure Public Clouds. With Network Watcher you can understand your network's topology, diagnose networking issues, run packet captures, and much more. For more information, see: Azure Network Watcher Azure Network Watcher Documentation Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday