Tara Raj, a PM who has been on the show before, talks to us about her latest endeavor, the Windows Subsystem for Linux and how it can be used for various tasks including Azure Development! Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode213.mp3 Indexed audio: https://www.videoindexer.ai/media/cad3664336/ Resources: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/ Other updates: Region expansion: Global VNet Peering At Ignite, we announced that you can use Global VNet Peering to peer virtual networks across Azure regions. Today, we're expanding to more support regions—enabling direct VM-to-VM connectivity without any public internet involvement or any extra hops. With just a few clicks, you can use Global VNet Peering to connect virtual networks across Azure regions to share resources or create a global, private peered virtual network. This enables a variety of scenarios such as data replication, disaster recovery, and database failover through private IPs alone. You can now peer across the following regions: □ Korea South □ UK South □ UK West □ Canada East □ India South □ India Central □ India West The new regions add to the previously announced regions: □ US West Central □ Canada Central □ US West 2 From New Python solutions for Web App for Containers Wednesday, January 24, 2018 Get started with ready-to-use Python-based web app templates from Flask, Bottle, or Django. They can be customized to build a web app for a small business or a personal web app. From Partnering for a path to digital identity https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/01/22/partnering-for-a-path-to-digital-identity/ Start replicating in under 30 minutes using Azure Site Recovery's new onboarding experience https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-a-new-simplified-onboarding-experience-for-azure-site-recovery-vmware-to-azure/ Launching the Azure Storage Solution showcase https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-azure-storage-solution-showcase/ Azure Zone Redundant Storage in public preview https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-zone-redundant-storage-in-public-preview/