The Azure Podcast
Evan and Sujit cover a whole bunch of updates to various Azure services such as AKS, ACA, Functions, VMs, PostgerSQL, VNETs and Storage.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode470.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/eGsnmw5WjHI
Resources:
VMs
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-cross-subscription-restore-for-azure-virtual-machines/
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-high-performance-computing/introducing-new-performance-tiers-for-azure-managed-lustre/ba-p/3900329
Storage
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-elastic-san-updates-private-endpoints-shared-volumes/
Functions
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-sdk-type-bindings-in-azure-functions/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-application-insights-integration-for-the-azure-functions-net-worker/
AKS/ACA
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-kubernetes-127-support-in-aks/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-azure-key-vault-references-for-secrets-in-azure-container-apps/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-secrets-volume-mounts-for-azure-container-apps/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-session-affinity-for-azure-container-apps/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-init-containers-in-azure-container-apps/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-cross-origin-resource-sharing-cors-in-azure-container-apps/
PostgreSQL
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-storage-autogrow-online-disk-scaling-for-azure-database-for-postgresql-flexible-server/
Major Version Upgrade of a flexible server - Azure portal | Microsoft Learn
VNET
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-vnet-flow-logs/
Keywords: Updates
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Azure and Data technical specialist Ian Pike, joins us on the Podcast to give us a primer on Fabric and what is means for customers that use various data-related services on Azure.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode469.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/k0DkkVkfw2o
Other updates:
Scale generative AI with new Azure AI infrastructure advancements and availability | Azure Blog | Microsoft Azure
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/azure-customer-stories-ai
Chaos Studio updates
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-chaos-studio-supports-new-faults-for-app-service-and-virtual-machines/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-chaos-studio-is-now-available-in-southeast-asia-region/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-chaos-studio-has-userassigned-managed-identity-and-custom-role-assignment/
Load Testing Updates
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-load-testing-run-tests-for-up-to-24-hours/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-load-testing-create-and-manage-tests-and-test-runs-using-azure-cli/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-load-testing-run-tests-with-100000-virtual-users/
Keywords: Data
This week Cale talks to Radhika Bollineni, Engineering Manager for Wordpress on App Service, about how to easily create WordPress sites in your Azure subscription to publish your content, using just a few clicks in the Marketplace.
Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode468.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/rO8xicLKKow
Documentation: https://github.com/Azure/wordpress-linux-appservice
Marketplace offering: https://ms.portal.azure.com/#create/WordPress.WordPress
Other links and resources referred to in this episode:
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After talking to Ryan Berry a little while back about OneStream's journey to Azure, the team catches back up with him to hear about how their architecture will evolve in the future to be more Cloud Native. In addition, they discuss the challenges of rearchitecting a pre-existing product when you cannot afford the have dual stacks running at the same time.
Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode467.mp3
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D4x7jDjs-8
Corporate Performance Management Software | OneStream Software
Cloud Solution Architect, Dr. Linda Sheard, joins Russell and Sujit for a primer on Azure Open AI. Linda breaks down the service and provides context on how it can be used for the typical scenario where a customer wants to reason over their own data.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode466.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/nDcIWvHa43s
Resources: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/openai/overview
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-registry/tutorial-registry-cache
Keywords: AI
Evan and Sujit talk to Principal PM Ramya Oruganti about the release of Functions as a first class managed service on Azure Container Apps. She tells us how this opens up possibilities for event-driven applications on ACA with full support for KEDA, Bindings, Dapr, GitHub Actions etc.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode465.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/0XR0PJuB_ko
https://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-on-container-apps
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/azure-functions-for-cloud-native-microservices-public-preview/ba-p/3826800
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-deploy-container-apps?tabs=acr%2Cbash&pivots=programming-language-csharp
Understanding Service Health communications for Azure vulnerabilities | Azure Blog | Microsoft Azure
Public preview: Assess impact of service retirements workbook template in Azure Advisor | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Keywords: Cloud Native
Cale and Russell talk to the Microsoft Program Manager for DevBox and Azure Deployment Environments, Sagar Chandra Reddy Lankala, about how Azure Deployment Environments can enable rapid deployment of on-demand dev/test environments while providing governance, security and cost management - plus some more updates from Microsoft Build 2023!
Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode464.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/IsgQVMIkhRc
Sagar's links:
Other updates mentioned in this episode:
Keywords: ADE, Azure Deployment Environments, Automation, DevOps
The team catches up with Ryan Berry to learn about OneStream's journey to Azure. They talk about both the benefits and pitfalls and why Ryan is happy OneStream in running in Azure.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode463.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/Um4rg4eKRuU
https://www.onestream.com/blog/onestream-splash-dc-wows-attendees-with-ai-powered-cpm-capabilities/
Public Preview – Data Migration for Oracle | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Build 2023: New Azure App Service plans fuel greater choice and savings | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
https://news.microsoft.com/build-2023-book-of-news/
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9265960
Keywords: Migration
Jorge Palma, the Lead PM for Azure Kubernetes Services, talks to Evan and Sujit about the Long-Term Support (LTS) version Kubernetes which provides support for 2 years. He tells us how this model works and who may benefit from this option.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode462.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/zmrOegThyCE
Resources: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/azure-kubernetes-upgrades-and-long-term-support/ba-p/3782789
https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2023/04/18/join-microsoft-at-kubecon-and-cloudnativecon-europe-2023/
Keywords: Kubernetes
Russell and Sujit talk to Dave Salvator, Director of Accelerated Computing Products at NVIDIA, about a new offering in Azure via the Marketplace that will make it easier to get NVIDIA's software onto the Azure platform to make it easier for customers to take advantage of their GPU accelerated instances.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode461.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/HcAjq8jAzqo
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-collaborates-with-microsoft-to-accelerate-enterprise-ready-generative-ai
Other Updates:
Public preview: Azure Cold Storage | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Public preview: Always Serve for Azure Traffic Manager | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
General availability: Inbound ICMPv4 pings are now supported on Azure Load Balancer | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Generally available: Azure Monitor Agent supports Linux Hardening for CIS and SELinux | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Public Preview: Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro for ASP.NET Core, JavaScript (Node.js), Python | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Transforming containerized applications with Azure Container Storage—now in preview | Azure Blog | Microsoft Azure
Keywords: Machine Learning, GPU
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