The Azure Podcast

The Azure Podcast

By Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young and Sujit D'MelloTechnologyTech News
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The Azure Podcast episodes

  • Episode 401 - Ignite 2021 Wrap-Up

    Kendall, Evan and Sujit each discuss their favorite Azure announcements from Ignite 2021.

    Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode401.mp3

    YouTube: https://youtu.be/6UjsEtzclJo

     

    Correction The new Dapr feature with AKS is actually considered an extension and there is new documentation around the add-on vs. extension model: Cluster extensions for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) (preview) 

    Resources:

    https://news.microsoft.com/ignite-november-2021-book-of-news/

    DaprCon: DaprCon - YouTube

    31 min
  • Episode 400 - A view from Azure's Core

    On this special milestone of the Azure Podcast, we have none other than Girish Bablani, the CVP of Azure Core, to give us insights into the Core platform and provide some perspectives on the past and future of Azure.

     

    Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode400.mp3

    YouTube: https://youtu.be/VMkHHMgUoKI

     

    22 min
  • Episode 399 - Chain of blocks evolution

    We talk to our very own Cale Teeter about the current state of Blockchain technology and how it is changing the way we deploy these networks in Azure and build applications.

     

    Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode399.mp3

    YouTube: https://youtu.be/_biNB9p5_Fw

    Resources:

    Migration announcement to QBS -> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/action-required-migrate-your-azure-blockchain-service-data-by-10-september-2021/

    QBS Preview -> https://consensys.net/quorum/qbs/

    Quickstart for Developers -> https://consensys.net/quorum/developers/

    NFT sidechain -> https://docs.palm.io/

    Azure SQL Ledger -> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/ledger-overview

    Confidential Consortium Framework -> https://microsoft.github.io/CCF/main/overview/concepts.html

     

    Other updates:

    SpaceCows – using AI, space technology and cloud to protect the Top End – Microsoft Australia News Centre

     

    Computer Vision Read API for Optical Character Recognition (OCR), part of Cognitive Services, announces its public preview with new languages including Russian, Bulgarian, other Cyrillic and more Latin languages. This release also highlight handwritten OCR support for many languages, along with enhancements for digital PDFs and Machine Readable Zone (MRZ) text in identity documents.

     

    Join us on Azure IaaS Day: Learn to increase agility and resiliency of your infrastructure

    https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/join-us-on-azure-iaas-day-learn-to-increase-agility-and-resiliency-of-your-infrastructure/

    5 reasons to join the Modernize Apps and Data with Azure and Power Apps free virtual event

    https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/5-reasons-to-join-the-modernize-apps-and-data-with-azure-and-power-apps-free-virtual-event/

     

    The Enclave Device Blueprint for confidential computing at the edge

    https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/the-enclave-device-blueprint-for-confidential-computing-at-the-edge/

     

    Public preview: Azure Spring Cloud RBAC config server and registry access and Nginx logs and metrics | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

    General availability: Azure Spring Cloud application health monitoring and end-to-end TLS/SSL | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

    Public preview: Visual Studio Code for the Web | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

    34 min
  • Episode 398 - Hear ye! Hear ye!

    Evan and Sujit catch up on the flurry of Azure updates from the past week.

     

    Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode398.mp3

    YouTube: https://youtu.be/J0Vq3IGlTFY

     

    Updates:


    Azure Automation Hybrid Worker Extension for Azure and Arc-enabled servers now in public preview

     

    From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/automation-user-hybrid-extension-support/>

     

    SpaceCows – using AI, space technology and cloud to protect the Top End – Microsoft Australia News Centre

     

     

    AKS Related

    Public preview: HTTPS proxy configuration support | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

    Public preview: AKS support for WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) workloads | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

    Enable Cloud Controller Manager (Preview) - Azure Kubernetes Service | Microsoft Docs

    Public preview: IPv6 for Kubenet | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

    General availability: Azure Monitor container insights for Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

     

    Microsoft says it mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever recorded (msn.com)

     

     

    Networking

    Utilize the Service Tag Discovery API to retrieve a list of Service Tags and corresponding IP ranges to easily configure on-premises firewalls and Azure resources.

     

    Public preview: Customize Azure Static Web Apps authentication with a serverless function

    Published date: October 13, 2021

    You can now define a serverless function that is invoked whenever a user successfully logs in to your static web app. This function can assign custom roles to the logged in user. You can use these roles to configure route-based authorization rules; and other serverless functions in your app can also access these roles. 

     

    From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-customize-azure-static-web-apps-authentication-with-a-serverless-function/>

    • Generally available: IP-based website protection for Azure Static Web Apps | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

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      SQL

      • Leverage user-assigned managed identity for transparent data encryption (TDE) with customer managed keys, and more for SQL Database and SQL Managed Instance.

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        From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-sql-public-preview-updates-for-october-2021/

         

        Private Link is now available in preview for Hyperscale (Citus) on Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a managed service running the open-source Postgres database on Azure.

         

        New centralized management experience for Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server in public preview

        From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/new-centralized-management-experience-for-azure-hybrid-benefit-for-sql-server-in-public-preview/>

         

        General availability: Azure Monitor application insights in Azure Spring Cloud | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

        35 min
      • Episode 397 - Capacity Reservation
        The team spends time with Bill DeForeest to learn about Capacity Reservation and how that fits into the broader picture of Reserved Instances, Capacity management, and how to best manage allocating your overall VM fleet. Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode397.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/SNmUF1DXYJY   Resources: Documentation: https://aka.ms/on-demand-capacity-reservations-docs Introductory video with demo: https://aka.ms/on-demand-capacity-reservations-Preview-Video   Updates: General availability: Enable hierarchical namespace for existing Azure Storage accounts Upgrade Azure Blob Storage with Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 capabilities Upgrading Azure Blob Storage with Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 capabilities Ebook: Fusion development approach to building apps using Power Apps New Azure VMware Solution updates and global expansion drives customer success The wait (list) is over: Azure NetApp Files is enterprise-ready in your Azure portal Microsoft named a Leader in 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for data integration tools Azure NetApp Files Datastores for Azure VMware Solution is coming soon  
        37 min
      • Episode 396 - How Vattenfall uses Azure
        The team meets Vattenfall's Marcus Melin and Mikael Söderström to learn how they are leveraging Azure to help enable the use of renewable energy 24x7 by their customers Also, be sure to go back and listen to the Sustainability solutions in Azure episode where the team first heard about Vattenfall from Conor Kelly. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode396.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/SgULg_YJT4k Resources: https://vattenfall.se/24-7   Other updates: Govern your data wherever it resides with Azure Purview https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/govern-your-data-wherever-it-resides-with-azure-purview/ Azure Cost Management and Billing updates – September 2021 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-cost-management-and-billing-updates-september-2021/ Building a digital guide dog for railway passengers with impaired vision https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ai-customer-engineering-team/building-a-digital-guide-dog-for-railway-passengers-with/ba-p/2749612   Azure IoT middleware for FreeRTOS in general availability | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 21.09 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
        29 min
      • Episode 395 - SAP on Azure
        The team spends time with fellow podcaster Ravi Kashyap to learn more about running SAP on Azure and how to be successful doing so.  Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode395.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/6fnmW845OA4   Resources: Ravi's book on SAP on Azure https://SAPonMicrosoftAzure.com  (special 15% discount code for our listeners MAAA15) If you want to learn more about the book https://open.spotify.com/episode/4PQbtdLHB4eDWjJUHi4Hhy Ravi's and Nathan's Podcast on SAP on Azure https://www.saponazuretalk.com/   Other updates: Azure Backup provides packaged pre-post scripts for Oracle VMs that can be used to instantly backup, create instant clones, reduce backup storage cost, and performance impact.   Announcing the private preview of the Configuration and SAP Installation for the SAP Deployment Auto https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/running-sap-applications-on-the/announcing-the-private-preview-of-the-configuration-and-sap/ba-p/2760059
        30 min
      • Episode 394 - Quantum Update
        Principal Software Engineer in the Quantum Computing group, Mariia Mykhailova  talks to us of the state of the technology and gives us tips on how to upskill and build Quantum applications today that can be deployed to Azure. Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode394.mp3 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A7Mnd9rvw4 Resources: Microsoft Quantum overview  Azure Quantum documentation Quantum computing foundations on Microsoft Learn  The Quantum Katas Coding contests Q# Pocket Guide authored by Mariia available on O'Reilly in early release form.   Updates: Join us behind the scenes at Azure, thanks to the Well-Architected Framework Video analytics at the edge, an ideal technology for 5G cloud monetization Boost your network security with new updates to Azure Firewall Public preview: Scale-down mode in AKS Zone redundant storage (ZRS) for Azure Disk Storage now generally available  
        35 min
      • Episode 393 - Behind the scenes
        You might not guess how Azure thinks about investing in continually improving customer experiences. We talk to Azure Partner PM Scott Hitch about the work his team does to improve the time in takes to remediate your applications and resources in Azure.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode393.mp3   YouTube: https://youtu.be/08mTqIr_-W0   Resources:  Azure Advisor: http://aka.ms/azureadvisor Service Health: https://aka.ms/azureservicehealth   Other updates: Guarantee capacity access with on-demand capacity reservations—now in preview https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/guarantee-capacity-access-with-ondemand-capacity-reservations-now-in-preview   Public preview: Automatic scaling with Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets flexible orchestration mode   -> Jerry Steele was on the show previously Published date: September 07, 2021 We are announcing that we have enabled elastic virtual machine profile and automatic scaling for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets with flexible orchestration elastic profile and automatic scaling. The features are now in public preview, and provide:  • Up to 1000 instances in a scale set (general purpose virtual machine sizes only) • Ability to manually add VM instances to the scale set • The option to spread instances across fault domains automatically, or specify a fault domain • Place on demand and Spot VMs in the same scale set • (New) Define a VM profile and specify instance count • (New) Automatically scale out and scale in based on metrics, schedule, or AI prediction (private preview) • (New) In guest patching that respects high availability / FD constraints • (New) Automatic extension updates • (New) Automatic instance repair/replacement of unhealthy instances • (New) Terminate notification for on demand and Spot VMs • (New) Secure by default networking - customers must explicitly define outbound connectivity • (New) Improved scale out and scale in reliability, latency, and elasticity https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/automatic-scaling-for-vms-with-azure-virtual-machine-scale-sets-flexible-orchestration-mode   https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-app-service-support-for-availability-zones-reaches-general-availability/   https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/private-link/disable-private-endpoint-network-policy
        32 min
      • Episode 392 - SQL Managed Instances
        The team spends some time with Srdan Bozovic to learn about SQL Managed Instances (SQL MI).    Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode392.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/yJKDdZf4pQw   Resources: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/managed-instance/sql-managed-instance-paas-overview https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/security-best-practice        
        29 min

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