Do you find it difficult to keep up-to-date on the frequent updates and changes in the Microsoft Azure cloud? If so, Build Azure Weekly is the solution you’ve been looking for! Build Azure Weekly is a weekly newsletter that includes all the latest Microsoft Azure Service Updates from the week in addition to links to many other blog articles, podcasts and videos from all over the Internet.
If you want to receive the newsletter in your email every week, then you’ll absolutely want to Subscribe!
Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- Designing Globally Resilient Apps with Azure App Service and Cosmos DB by Chris Pietschmann
- Azure – Event Grid Architecture in the Cloud with Azure Event Grid by David Barkol
- Azure #CosmosDB and Microsoft’s Project Olympus honored in InfoWorld’s 2018 Technology of the Year Awards by Rimma Nehme
- Microsoft Exams Scheduled to Retire in Early 2018 by Chris Pietschmann
- A great developer experience for Ansible by Corey Sanders
- Serious about security? Check out Azure Security Center by Kim Spilker
- Book: Exam Ref 70-532 Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions, Second Edition by Chris Pietschmann
- Book: Exam Ref 70-533 Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions, Second Edition by Chris Pietschmann
- Book: Exam Ref 70-535 Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions by Chris Pietschmann
- 70-537 Configuring and Operating a Hybrid Cloud with Azure Stack Exam (20537) by Chris Pietschmann
- New in Stream Analytics: General availability of sub-streams, query compatibility, and more by Krishna Mamidipaka
- Azure Storage SDKs for Python, Ruby and PHP now generally available by Sercan Guler
- Announcing the general availability of Azure Event Grid by Corey Sanders
- Last week in Azure: New Zone Redundant capabilities now in preview, and more by Rob Caron
- Microsoft Acquires Cloud Gaming Backend Platform PlayFab by Mehedi Hassan
- Network Watcher Connection Troubleshoot now generally available by Abhishek Pathak
Service Updates
Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:
- Azure DevTest Labs: Set expiration date for a lab announcement
- General availability: Azure Network Watcher in Microsoft Azure Government
- General availability: Azure Network Watcher in Microsoft Azure Germany
- .NET Core 2.0 support for App Service on Linux
- General availability: Virtual Network Service Endpoints and Firewalls for Azure Storage
- Ansible now available in Bash in Cloud Shell
- SQL Data Warehouse: ALTER DATABASE SCOPED CREDENTIAL command for rotating storage keys
- OpenSSH now available in PowerShell in Cloud Shell
Sponsor
Are you looking for a clear and outlined path to learn Microsoft Azure? No matter if you’re a Developer, IT Pro, or Architect, Opsgility has courses that will help you learn how to build and implement solutions within Microsoft Azure more affectively and efficiently. The on-demand and instructor-led courses from Opsgility offer maximum flexibility to learn how you learn best, and to help your team grow into the cloud experts you need them to be in an efficient manner.
Opsgility is the leading Microsoft cloud technology trainer for developers and IT professionals, built around an esteemed network of industry experts and technical authors that includes Microsoft MVPs and Microsoft Insiders in more than 10 countries.
Get started today with Microsoft Dev Essentials and get 3 months Free of Opsgility on-demand streaming service!
Blog Articles
Here’s a collection of some of the most note worthy blog articles posted over the past week:
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
- Virtual Network Service Endpoints and Firewalls for Azure Storage now generally available by Alan Stephenson
- Users may experience issues while trying to enable a licensed image inside a Lab. by Tanmayee Kamath
- Customer success stories with Azure Backup: Russell Reynolds by Kartik P V R
- What is Microsoft’s ‘Polaris’ project? via ZDNet
- [Linux] How to login Azure Linux VM’s using SSH key pair by Maheshk
- Veeam Recovery to Microsoft Azure Featuring Veeam PN Now Available via IT Pro
- SAP on Azure Workshop by Sarah Arnold
- Network Watcher Connection Troubleshoot now generally available by Abhishek Pathak
- Azure ExpressRoute updates – New partnerships, monitoring and simplification by Yousef Khalidi
- Provide Cross Region Low-latency Service based on Azure VNET Peering by Wu Shuai
- Reusing Azure Automation Run As Accounts by Jason Wages
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Designing Globally Resilient Apps with Azure App Service and Cosmos DB by Chris Pietschmann
- Azure Mobile Apps: Disable Swagger by Jeff Sanders
- Azure Tips and Tricks Part 89 – Shared Access Tokens with Azure Storage Blob Containers by Michael Crump
- Azure Storage SDKs for Python, Ruby and PHP now generally available by Sercan Guler
- Azure Tips and Tricks Part 87 – Avoid Bad Request Errors in Azure Storage Table by Michael Crump
Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)
- Azure – Event Grid Architecture in the Cloud with Azure Event Grid by David Barkol
- Passing extra HTTP headers to any action in Logic App by David Burg
- Sending Your Azure Application Insights Alerts to Team Sites using Azure Logic App by Abhijit Jana
- Logic apps Service bus connector not honoring Maximum message count by Shashidharan Krishnan
Software as a Service (SaaS)
- New ways to use apps and get more done in Microsoft Teams! by Jose Kingsley Davies
- Extend diagramming to IT with network diagrams in Visio Online via Visio Team
- OneDrive for iOS Gets Refined Designed With Big New Update by Mehedi Hassan
- Microsoft adds new app integrations, app store to Teams via ZDNet
- Microsoft Teams is Updated with App Gallery, More by Paul Thurrott
Command-Line / ARM Templates
- Azure: PowerShell versus ARM Templates by Aidan Finn
- How to create and navigate a directory with a single command. by Donovan Brown
Database / Big Data
- Designing Globally Resilient Apps with Azure App Service and Cosmos DB by Chris Pietschmann
- Azure #CosmosDB and Microsoft’s Project Olympus honored in InfoWorld’s 2018 Technology of the Year Awards by Rimma Nehme
- Announcing the general availability of Azure Event Grid by Corey Sanders
- Three new reasons to love the TSI explorer by Andrew Shannon
- New Azure Data Factory self-paced hands-on lab for UI by Mark Kromer
- Azure Databricks – Transforming Data Frames in Spark by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
- Geo-Disaster-Recovery available in Portal by Ch. Wolf
- Lambda Architecture using Azure #CosmosDB: Faster performance, Low TCO, Low DevOps by Denny Lee
- Designing a Cosmos DB database by Pam Lahoud
- New in Stream Analytics: General availability of sub-streams, query compatibility, and more by Krishna Mamidipaka
- How to setup alerts on the new metrics for Azure Event Hubs by Ch. Wolf
- Azure Tips and Tricks Part 88 – What’s the purpose of ETag in Azure Storage Table? by Michael Crump
- How to setup alerts on the new metrics for Azure Service Bus by Ch. Wolf
- Using EXPLAIN to profile slow queries in Azure Database for MySQL by Leon Hao
- Using the MySQL sys schema to optimize and maintain a database by Sean Li
- Azure Tips and Tricks Part 90 – Part 1 – Implementing Azure Search with SQL Server and ASP.NET MVC by Michael Crump
Internet of Things (IoT)
- New Azure service allows easy event management across fleet of devices by maiahhollander
Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence
- Adding Artificial Intelligence (AI) to your Xamarin Apps by Gerald Versluis
- Transforming Education using Artificial Intelligence by Kristy Hill
- How is AI for video different from AI for images by Milan Gada
- Hearing AI: Getting Started with Deep Learning for Audio on Azure by Xiaoyong Zhu, Max Kaznady, Gilbert Hendry
Development and DevOps
- Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment: The Future of DevOps Is Now by Matthew Calder
- Continuous Quality: Ship Better Apps Faster with Visual Studio App Center by Glenn Wester
- Hot Code Replacement for Java comes to Visual Studio Code via Visual Studio Blog
- ASP.NET Core 2.1 roadmap by Daniel Roth
- Migrating from TFS to VSTS, Part 1 by Michael Taylor
- DevOps: Why Don’t Database Developers Use Source Control? by Greg Low
- Python in Visual Studio Code – Jan 2018 Release by Dan Taylor
- Unraveling the mysteries of DevOps by Subodh Sohoni
- VSTS Gems- Three ways to beef up your boards by Rui Melo
- A great developer experience for Ansible by Corey Sanders
- Jenkins on Azure: from zero to hero by Pui Chee Chan
- Stakeholders can now view VSTS Analytics widgets by Gregg Boer
- MSTest V2: in-assembly parallel test execution by Pratap Lakshman
- Deliver quality apps faster with new features in Visual Studio by Microsoft Cloud Perspectives Team
- Visual Studio Toolbox: SmartHotel360 Demo App Overview by Robert Green
- Merging conflicts in the browser by Brian Harry
- A Microservices implementation journey — Part 3 by Aram Koukia
- VSTS CI to Build and Test Node.js app with Gulp and Mocha by Nilay Shah
Azure Stack
- 70-537 Configuring and Operating a Hybrid Cloud with Azure Stack Exam (20537) by Chris Pietschmann
Security
- Serious about security? Check out Azure Security Center by Kim Spilker
- Integrate Azure Security Center alerts into SIEM solutions by Miri Landau
- Supporting AzureAD Conditional Access Policy across VSTS by Justin Marks
- Managing Azure Secrets on GitHub Repositories by Brijesh Desai
- VS Subscriptions and linking your VSTS account to AzureAD by Justin Marks
- Restrict public access to your Azure Web Apps with the IPSecurityRestrictions option by Christos Matskas
Learning / Certification
- Microsoft Exams Scheduled to Retire in Early 2018 by Chris Pietschmann
- Save up to 55% on Microsoft Press exam prep titles by Kim Spilker
- Book: Exam Ref 70-532 Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions, Second Edition by Chris Pietschmann
- Book: Exam Ref 70-533 Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions, Second Edition by Chris Pietschmann
- Book: Exam Ref 70-535 Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions by Chris Pietschmann
- New book: Exam Ref 70-347 Enabling Office 365 Services, Second Edition via Microsoft Press Blog
- 70-537 Configuring and Operating a Hybrid Cloud with Azure Stack Exam (20537) by Chris Pietschmann
- Take Beta Exam 70-537: Configuring and Operating a Hybrid Cloud with Microsoft Azure Stack by Liberty Munson
Containers and Service Fabric
- How to set up Kubernetes on Windows 10 with Docker for Windows and run ASP.NET Core by Scott Hanselman
- Working with ACR Geo-replication notifications by Steve Lasker
- Stand Alone Service Fabric Error=EndpointProviderPortRangeExhausted by Pam Lahoud
- Service Fabric 6.1 Release by Service Fabric Team
Azure Government
- Microsoft Azure Government leader honored with FCW 2018 Federal 100 Award via Azure Gov Team
- Full MeitY accreditation enables Indian public sector to deploy on Azure by Stevan Vidich
- Team Foundation Server 2015 CI/CD Pipeline for Web App in Azure Government by Michael S. Hansen
Events
- 2/6 Webinar: Flow With Microsoft Graph API by Ashish Trivedi by Charles Sterling
Other
- Enhancements to Azure Budgets API supporting Resource Groups and Usage Budgets by Vinod Kurpad
- Enhancements to Cost Management APIs by Vinod Kurpad
- Last week in Azure: New Zone Redundant capabilities now in preview, and more by Rob Caron
- Microsoft Acquires Cloud Gaming Backend Platform PlayFab by Mehedi Hassan
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
- TWC9: Azure Event Grid Goes GA, Kubernetes on Windows 10 with Docker, and more | This Week On Channel 9 by Cameron Tomisser, Christina Warren
- Azure IoT C SDK insights | Internet of Things Show via Channel 9
- Custom Vision – Machine Learning Made Easy with Jim Bennett | The Xamarin Show via Channel 9
- SmartHotel360 Demo App Web Site | Visual Studio Toolbox via Channel 9
- Running Ansible on Azure | Azure Friday via Channel 9
- Real World Mobile DevOps with VSTS and App Center | The DevOps Lab via Channel 9
- Machine Learning with Azure Notebooks | AI Show via Channel 9
- Dataiku DSS on Azure HDInsight for Data Science | Data Exposed via Channel 9
- Serverless and Internet of Things | Internet of Things Show via Channel 9
- Azure Functions and Logic Apps | Tuesdays With Corey via Channel 9
- Azure IoT Hub Integration with Azure Event Grid | Internet of Things Show via Channel 9
- AtScale on Azure HDInsight | Data Exposed via Channel 9
- SmartHotel360 Demo App Overview | Visual Studio Toolbox via Channel 9
Audio / Podcasts
To complete the collection of different mediums to allow you to consume your Azure news / info in any way you want, here’s a list of the podcasts released this week:
- Episode 214 – Functions Microservices via The Azure Podcast
- Running Ansible on Azure via Azure Friday
- Episode 236 | Office 365 News, Goings on and Sheep in Space via Microsoft Cloud Show
General Cloud / Related
Here’s some noteworthy links about Cloud computing and other related topics that aren’t necessarily specific to Microsoft Azure:
- In a Big Kubernetes Play, Red Hat Gobbles Up CoreOS for $250M by Yevgeniy Sverdlik
- Red Hat Shakes Up Container Ecosystem With CoreOS Deal by Timothy Prickett Morgan
- Public Cloud Service Earnings: 5 Highlights You Must Know by Nicole Henderson
- OpenMP Has More in Store for GPU Supercomputing by Nicole Hemsoth
- Microservices Are Great, But Only if You Solve These Challenges by Christopher Tozzi
- How to protect against and recover from ransomware attacks on your backups via IT Pro
- The Machine Learning Opportunity in Manufacturing, Logistics by Jeffrey Burt
- Adafruit’s Top 10 Blog Posts of January 2018 #StateOfTheFruit #AdafruitTopTen by Stephanie
- The Key IoT Security Questions You Need To Ask by Olivia Burgess
- How AlphaGo Sparked a New Approach to De Novo Drug Design by Nicole Hemsoth
- CodePlex has been archived by Martin Woodward
- GE Exec on Digital Twins, Predix Platform and Diversity by Brian Buntz
- Google to Create a Cloud App Marketplace, Chasing Amazon via IT Pro
- Building a Raspberry Pi Car Robot with WiFi and Video by Scott Hanselman
Feedback
Do you have any suggestions or general feedback on the Build Azure Weekly blog series? Please contact me and send it on over! Or tweet it over to @BuildAzure.
Please feel free to reach out and let me know your feedback on the Build Azure Weekly series. I post this weekly post as a service to others and really want to make it the best it can be.
You can also join the Build Azure Slack Group as well.