Nills Franssens, a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect, prolific blogger and author, is back on the show to talk to us about his fascination with Azure Kubernetes Service, which led him to co-author a book that helps developers learn and use AKS. Microsoft has partnered with the publisher Packt to make the eBook available for free!
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode329.mp3
Transcript: https://www.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/579b2c85cc/?location=eastus2
eBook download: https://aka.ms/handson-aks-book
Blog: https://blog.nillsf.com
Other updates:
The self-hosted gateway feature of API Management is now generally available
Updated: April 29, 2020
It provides new deployment options and expands API Management support for hybrid and multi-cloud environments that are common among enterprise customers. With self-hosted gateway, customers can reduce costs and increase operational efficiency by consolidating management and observability of all their APIs, hosted in Azure, on-premises, and other clouds, into a single API Management service without compromising latency, security, privacy, or compliance.
The self-hosted gateway is a functionally equivalent version of the API Management gateway component used in the Azure cloud, packaged as a Linux-based Docker container image. Customers can co-locate self-hosted gateways with the API implementations, running it in Docker for evaluation or development or in Kubernetes in production. Self-hosted gateway links to and relies on an API Management service for management. It emits logs and metrics to Azure and can also be configured to emit them locally. Self-hosted gateway requires connectivity to Azure but is resilient to intermittent loss of connection.
From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/selfhosted-gateway-feature-in-api-management-is-now-generally-available/>
New Azure VMware Solution is now in preview
From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/new-azure-vmware-solution-is-now-in-preview/>
Azure custom role creation in the Azure portal is now generally available
From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-custom-roles-portal/>
How Azure VPN helps organizations scale remote work
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/how-azure-vpn-helps-organizations-scale-remote-work/
Manage and find data with Blob Index for Azure Storage—now in preview
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/manage-and-find-data-with-blob-index-for-azure-storage-now-in-preview/