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:

• RadApp
• Introducing Radius: A new open-source application platform for cloud-native apps

Other news:

• General availability: Rate limit rules for Application Gateway web application firewall
• Export cost using focus
• Azure support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 will end by 31 October 2024
• Experiment templates now available in Azure Chaos Studio
• General availability: Start and stop load testing faults in Azure Chaos Studio
• General availability: Azure Functions supports .NET 8 in the isolated worker model
• App Service end-to-end encryption for Linux multi-tenant (preview)
• Azure Monitor Logs archive provides up to 12 years of retention

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:

• Manage your big data needs with HDInsight on AKS
• Enterprise scale open-source analytics on containers (Video)
• Get started with HDInsights on AKS
• Get in touch - Ask HDInsight

Other news:

• Announcing Microsoft Playwright Testing: Scalable end-to-end testing for modern web apps
• The Microsoft Azure Incubations Team launches Radius, a new open application platform for the cloud

The gang revisits IoT Hub from an Open Source perspective by talking to Claudio Caldato, a Principal Program Manager in the IoT Team about enabling open source software and libraries like Akka and Kafka to talk directly to IoT Hub.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode156.mp3

 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/kafka-connect-for-azure-iot-hub

We talk to Ning Kuang from the Open Source Technology Center @ Microsoft about their efforts to get Cloud Foundry running on Azure.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode143.mp3

Blog: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/general-availability-of-cloud-foundry-and-preview-access-of-pivotal-cloud-foundry/

Cloud Foundry on Azure GA guidance: https://github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/bosh-azure-cpi-release/blob/master/docs/guidance.md

Pivotal Cloud Foundry Market Place template: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/partners/pivotal/pivotal-cloud-foundryazure-pcf/