Azure Friday

It's crucial to test recent changes before rolling them out to production, especially for mission-critical workloads. You want to be sure that the system is resilient after the latest code update. Combined with load testing, you can be confident that the system will maintain the expected performance. Heyko Oelrichs and Martin Šimiček join Scott Hanselman to show how integrating automated tests early in the development process will enable you to deploy new releases with high quality. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 02:30 - Continuous validation 05:30 - Demo setup 09:09 - Demo outcome 13:27 - Azure Front Door 15:27 - Resources Recommended resources Mission-critical workloads Continuous validation with Azure Load Testing and Azure Chaos Studio Getting started guide on GitHub Azure Mission-Critical Online Reference Implementation Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter: @Azure Azure Architecture | Twitter: @MSPnP

The cloud costs money and you want to control that. Barry 'Azure Barry' Luijbregts and Scott Hanselman cover what things cost money in the cloud, how to analyze and track costs, and practical tips to reduce costs to help manage your cloud spending. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:00 - What costs money in the cloud? 06:43 - Managing costs 12:23 - Reporting costs 15:14 - Reducing costs 25:09 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Optimize your Azure costs Use Azure Spot Virtual Machines Cost Management + Billing documentation Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Azure Barry | Twitter: @AzureBarry Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter: @Azure

Mainframe and midrange systems have been at the core of many organizations for their mission-critical workloads. Cristina Potra joins Scott Hanselman to talk about how these systems can be migrated to Azure with the migration frameworks, partners, and expertise. Learn about modernization complexities, strategies, and documentation to cater to every unique customer's needs. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 02:35 - Modernization Journey Roadmap 08:12 - Modernize mainframe and midrange data 10:11 - Guidance 12:20 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Mainframe migration overview Azure mainframe and midrange architecture design Modernize mainframe and midrange data Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter: @Azure For more information, please contact [email protected]

Have you ever tried to deploy to Azure with ARM templates, but found them too difficult or overwhelming to learn? Alex Frankel joins Scott Hanselman to show how Bicep—an abstraction on top of ARM templates—gives you all the same power and flexibility, but in a modern, safe, declarative language. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 03:30 - Demo - a Bicep file from scratch 16:15 - Demo - transpiling with az bicep build 19:40 - Demo - adding a parameter for a name prefix 23:40 - Demo - unplanned debugging activity 25:55 - Demo - back on track 28:00 - Demo - a few more features 35:22 - Wrap-up Recommended resources What is Bicep? Azure / bicep on GitHub Comparing JSON and Bicep for templates Frequently asked questions for Bicep Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Alex Frankel | Twitter: @ADotFrank Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter: @Azure

Drew Skwiers-Koballa shows Scott Hanselman a new option for developing with Azure SQL Database: The Azure SQL Database emulator, which is a containerized database for a desktop dev experience. Use your favorite client OS and dev tools for cloud development without the cloud. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 02:54 - Modern microservices-demo application overview 04:10 - Database Projects and Integration with VS Code 15:43 - Deployment using GitHub Actions 18:46 - Wrap-up Recommended resources What is the local development experience for Azure SQL Database? Introducing the Azure SQL Database emulator (preview) SQL Database Projects extension (Preview) Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Drew Skwiers-Koballa | Twitter: @SysAdminDrew Azure SQL | Twitter: @AzureSQL Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter: @Azure

Amar Gowda joins Scott Hanselman to show how Azure Confidential Computing protects data in use and helps you achieve data security and data privacy goals within a managed cloud environment. Confidential VM's protect VM-based workloads with memory encryption and code integrity for VM and container workloads. Attestation helps you remotely verify the entire VM is a hardware-based Trusted Execution Environment (TEE). Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:20 - Azure Confidential Computing 04:00 - Creating a confidential VM from CLI demo 06:28 - Attestation sample client to verify hardware 12:00 - Extensions and CVM on AKS support 13:09 - AKS demo 20:00 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Azure confidential computing Azure Confidential Computing Blog Azure Confidential Computing customer stories Azure-Samples/confidential-container-samples on GitHub Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Amar Gowda | Twitter: @amar_gowda Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter: @Azure

Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL enables developers to build scalable PostgreSQL apps. Kirill Gavrylyuk and Charles Feddersen join Scott Hanselman to explain Distributed SQL PostgreSQL in Azure Cosmos DB. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 02:12 - Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL demo 09:36 - Demo loading data from Azure Storage and sharding 15:34 - Demo creating a replica for reduced latency 21:56 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL Use Azure Cosmos DB for free Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL | How it Works Create an Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL cluster in the Azure portal Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure Cosmos DB | Twitter: @AzureCosmosDB

Estefani Arroyo joins Scott Hanselman to talk about and demo Azure Cosmos DB desktop tools for developing, querying, and testing your applications. The Azure Cosmos DB Linux Emulator provides a high-fidelity emulation of the Azure Cosmos DB service. The Azure Data Studio Cosmos DB API for Mongo DB extension enables you to connect to your Mongo resources and query your data using the mongo shell. Chapters 00:00 - Intro 01:03 - Emulator configuration options 02:20 - Emulator pre-requisites 04:36 - Adding certificates 07:20 - Azure Cosmos DB emulator 08:31 - Querying data 09:27 - Python sample app to try it 10:30 - Visualizing data with Azure Data Studio 12:26 - Mongo shell 15:13 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Install and use the Azure Cosmos DB Emulator for local development and testing Run the emulator on Docker for Linux (Preview) Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday

Going from your local development environment to the cloud can be challenging. Savannah Ostrowski joins Scott Hanselman to show how the Azure Developer CLI (azd) uses a set of developer-friendly commands that map to key stages in your workflow and idiomatic application templates to accelerate the time it takes you to get started on Azure. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:45 - Code to Cloud Journey 04:04 - Azure Developer CLI templates 05:42 - Exploring with a sample app 11:57 - azd CLI demo 21:07 - "It even created a dashboard? What?" 21:39 - Exploring the deployed app components 23:01 - Wrap-up Recommended resources What is the Azure Developer CLI? (preview) Introducing the Azure Developer CLI (azd): A faster way to build apps for the cloud Get started using Azure Developer CLI (preview) Find azd templates on GitHub Make your project compatible with Azure Developer CLI (preview) Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Savannah Ostrowski | Twitter: @SavOstrowski Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday

Front-end web applications often call back-end APIs for data and services. Annina Keller joins Scott Hanselman to show how Azure Static Web Apps provides built-in serverless API endpoints via integration with Azure services, including Azure App Service, Azure API Management, Azure Container Apps, and Azure Functions. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 03:18 - Simple demo 10:30 - Demo with OAuth and API Management 17:50 - Wrap-up 18:40 - Resources Recommended resources Overview of API support in Azure Static Web Apps Use Static Web Apps API and API Management Authorizations to integrate third party services API Management - Authorizations overview New API backend options in Azure Static Web Apps Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Annina Keller | Twitter: @AnninaKe Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday