The Azure Podcast

Cale and Sujit discuss the new Fleet Manager service which allows customers to better manage groups of AKS clusters and perform updates, deployments and network access.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode481.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/mpUfpRtqnEE

Resources:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kubernetes-fleet/overview

https://github.com/Azure/fleet

Other updates:

Public Preview: Accelerated logs in Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public Preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server, enhanced disaster recovery features | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Generally Available: Azure Functions support on Apple Silicon Macs | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Microsoft and Oracle announce that Oracle Database@Azure is now generally available | Microsoft Azure Blog

Mark Eisenberg joins Cale and Sujit to dissect the Azure-related updates announced at the Ignite Conference in November 2023.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode480.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/bbt4wTjo7G4

Resources:

https://news.microsoft.com/ignite-2023-book-of-news/

Mark Russinovich - Inside AI Innovations

Today the team chat to Keith Howling, a Principal Technical Specialist at Microsoft, on the topic of Platform Engineering with Radius, an open source app deployment engine.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode479.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/JWCaXfTf77A

Resources:

Radius:

Other news:

The team catches up with Nithya Sivam and Joshua Min who explain how Azure is democratizing access to the self-help content accessible in the Azure Portal. The Help API makes it easier to integrate this self-help into your own workflow.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode478.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/Depmijm4YUg

Resources:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/help/?view=rest-help-2023-09-01-preview

Other updates:

Realize the full potential of your cloud investment with Azure optimization

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/realize-the-full-potential-of-your-cloud-investment-with-azure-optimization/

Building for the future: The enterprise generative AI application lifecycle with Azure AI

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/building-for-the-future-the-enterprise-generative-ai-application-lifecycle-with-azure-ai/

Join Microsoft at Azure Day & KubeCon North America 2023 in Chicago!

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/join-microsoft-at-azure-day-amp-kubecon-north-america-2023-in/ba-p/3958610

Azure Elastic SAN updates: Snapshots, Security, and Usability | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Preview: Azure Container Storage in AKS | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: Application Gateway IPv6 support | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure 

General Availability: Azure Advisor recommendation improves the reliability of Azure Disks with Zone Redundant Storage | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Software Engineers Ian Jensen and Michael Litman from Microsoft's ISE group, explain the other 'clouds' in Azure. They dive into the Power Platform and Dynamics 365 suite and explain the use-cases for each of them and how you can use low-code or high-code to take advantage of these clouds without having to worry about specific resources in Azure.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode477.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/9EAl_tCAoMs

Resources:

Other updates:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-update-channel-for-basic-standard-and-premium-caches/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-builtin-azure-monitor-alerts-for-azure-site-recovery/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-bastion-developer-public-preview/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-default-rule-set-21-for-regional-waf-with-application-gateway/

Balaji Sankaran, General Manager of Azure HDInsight, joins us to share the latest announcement from HDInsight - an updated, managed HDInsight service that runs on AKS, giving a better experience for hosting opensource analytics workloads in the cloud.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode476.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/RiQzpkZeT9c

Resources:

HD Insight on AKS:

Other news:

Alice Gibbons, Customer Success Engineer and Kendall Roden, Product Manager, both from Diagrid, talk about the companies SaaS offering that allows easier monitoring and management of DAPR installations on AKS and any Kubernetes service.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode475.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/iIjUs1Z-g4I

Resources:

Conductor links:

5 min intro: https://www.diagrid.io/conductor#video-section

book a demo: https://www.diagrid.io/conductor

Run Dapr in production with Confidence webinar: https://youtu.be/88VJZ0K09PM?feature=shared

Other Updates:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-data-explorer-addon-for-splunk/

A Program Manager in the Azure Chaos Studio team, Vikram Raju joins us to give us a refresher on the service and what latest updates have just been released.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode474.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/UJYhjFoM25U

Resources:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/guide/testing/mission-critical-deployment-testing

Other updates:

https://aka.ms/AIR/VVTQ-J98 - this the public-facing Azure Incident Retrospective that covers the Australia East outage.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-web-pubsub-support-for-socketio/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-malware-scanning-in-defender-for-storage-2/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-timeline-view-for-azure-monitor-alerts/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/openai-whisper-model-in-preview-in-azure-openai-service-and-azure-ai-speech/

Vishwas Lele, CTO of Applied Information Sciences, talks to us about Azure Arc. He explains the history of the service, how it helps you develop, operate and secure your applications anywhere, and why it is deserves more attention from customers, even if you don't use Azure today.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode473.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/WTSoAThTJuI

Resources:

https://www.linkedin.com/learning/managing-and-governing-hybrid-environments-with-azure-arc/hybrid-and-multicloud-resource-management-with-azure-arc

https://azurearcjumpstart.io/

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/r-word-starting-appear-cloud-conversations-its-time-set-vishwas-lele

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/

Other updates:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/announcing-javascript-sdk-v4/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-configure-customermanaged-keys-on-existing-cosmos-db-accounts/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-use-azure-key-vault-to-securely-store-and-retrieve-access-key-when-mounting-azure-storage-as-a-local-sha/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/configure-load-testing-in-your-cicd-pipeline-from-azure-portal/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-sensitive-data-protection-for-application-gateway-web-application-firewall-logs/

https://github.com/cncf/toc/pull/1168

Farzad Sunavala, Senior PM in the Azure Cognitive Search team, reveals the details of the new Vector Search feature. He explains some of the concepts of Vector search and how developers can easily take advantage of this in their Open AI apps.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode472.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/jAvuVTUNZ2k

Resources:

https://aka.ms/IntroducingVectorSearch

Other updates:

https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/azure-app-configuration-public-preview-release-of-snapshots-feature/

https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/public-preview-azure-container-apps-supports-additional-tcp-ports/

https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/generally-available-azure-container-apps-jobs/

https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/public-preview-azure-functions-net-worker-cold-start-improvements/

https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/public-preview-azure-functions-net-8-support-in-linux-plans/

https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/generally-available-autoupgrade-scheduled-maintenance-for-aks/

https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/general-availability-azure-sql-updates-for-lateaugust-2023/