Based on feedback from our listeners, we chat with Richard Cheney, a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft. He give us a loads of advice to help our listeners get ramped up on developing ARM templates, including 'Project Citadel' - a whole set of resources to help you craft the best templates. Resources: http://Aka.ms/armref http://Aka.ms/armfunc http://Aka.ms/citadel Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode218.mp3 Indexed audio: https://www.videoindexer.ai/media/998bafacd4   Other updates: Introducing backup for Azure file shares Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of backup for Azure file shares. Azure Files is a cloud-first file share solution with support for industry standard SMB protocol.  • File level restore - instantly (from snapshots)  • No infrastructure required  • Control retention via policies  • Uses Recovery services vault You can back up file shares automatically based on policy and restore instantly to a point in time by using the Azure portal. New option to try out Web App for Containers Thursday, February 22, 2018 Web App for Containers is a fully managed platform to deploy, run, and scale your apps hosted in containers. There's now an option to try it out, with no credit card required. Sign in to the Try Azure App Service page and select Web App for Containers. You can use one of the built-in containers or enter your own image name to work with. You're asked for a Microsoft sign-in, which will grant Azure portal access for 30 minutes to try out the feature. From General availability: Application consistent backup for Linux VMs by using Tuesday, February 27, 2018 We're excited to announce the general availability (GA) of application consistent backup for Linux VMs running in Azure by using Azure Backup. This feature helps ensure that your application backup data is transactionally consistent. From Confidently plan your cloud migration: Azure Migrate is now generally available! 28 February 2018 A few months ago, we announced Azure Migrate – a new service that provides guidance and insights to help you migrate to Azure. Today, we're excited to announce that Azure Migrate is generally available. From Azure Migrate service is now GA - guest (Richard) to discuss, he's looked into this a lot this week VNet Service Endpoints for Azure SQL Database now generally available We are excited to announce the general availability of Virtual Network (VNet) Service Endpoints for Azure SQL Database in all Azure regions. This ability allows you to isolate connectivity to your logical... From Preview of Log Alerts feature for Application Insights 14 February 2018 Log Alerts for Application Insights (Preview) Application Insights is an extensible Application Performance Management (APM) service for web developers on multiple platforms. From Azure Service Bus now integrates with Azure Event Grid! 26 February 2018 Azure Service Bus now sends events to Azure Event Grid. The key scenario this feature enables is for Service Bus queues, topics, or subscriptions with low message volumes to not require a receiver... From