The Azure Weekly series from BuildAzure.com brings a consolidated source for the weeks Azure news, blogs, and service updates. There is an incredible amount of things changing in the Microsoft Azure platform and ecosystem on a regular basis. The goal of this weekly list is to help keep up on all that keeps changing.
Service Updates
This is the list of Azure Service Updates announced by Microsoft for the week:
- Run your own custom Automation tasks in response to VM alerts
- Azure API Management is available in Canada regions
- General availability: Azure DevTest Labs
- Deploying a Web Apps certificate through Key Vault
- Automation scheduling feature update
- General availability: Azure Backup in the Azure portal
- New generation of D-Series instances for Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Cloud Services in Japan West
- Azure Web Apps Gallery now supported only in Azure Marketplace
Blog Articles
Here’s a bunch of the blog posts from Microsoft and the community at large over the week:
- Azure Security Information Site on Azure.com by Thomas W. Shinder
- Improve Security by Migrating from Azure Service Management to Azure Resource Management by Thomas W. Shinder
- Azure CDN highlights from Akamai release by Manling Zhang
- Azure Marketplace: WordPress via Chris Pietschmann
- Azure Marketplace: RedHat Enterprise Linux Virtual Machine by Chris Pietschmann
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 is now available in Azure Marketplace by Boris Baryshnikov
- Predicting Traits from Genomic Data Using the Microsoft Azure Linux Data Science VM by Mary Wahl
- 30 Days of Zumo.v2 (Azure Mobile Apps): Day 26: Relationship Advice by Adrian Hall
- 30 Days of Zumo.v2 (Azure Mobile Apps): Day 25: The Push to Sync Pattern by Adrian Hall
- 30 Days of Zumo.v2 (Azure Mobile Apps): Day 24 – Push with Tags by Adrian Hall
- Achieving regulatory agility in the era of cloud computing by Matt Rathbun
- Insights on Container Security with Azure Container Service (ACS) by Thomas W Shinder
- Keeping your migration (and business) on course by Eduardo Kasher
- Turning on Windows features using PowerShell DSC extension and Azure CLI by Kirpa Singh
- Diagnose and resolve issues with Azure Troubleshooting by Ritesh Garodia
- Easily bring your SQL Server licenses to Azure VMs by Khalid Mouss
- How to add custom claims to Azure Mobile App authentication by Stan Tarnovskiy
- Azure Features and Regions, Oh My!? by Chris Pietschmann
- SharePoint Server 2016 dev/test farm in Azure by Joe Davies
- Announcing general availability of Azure DevTest Labs by Xiaoying Guo
- Solving for the cloud by James Staten
- I’m speaking at a Free AzureCraft event in London on June 3rd by Scott Guthrie
- Migrating, managing and more: Real IT pros, Real advice via Microsoft Azure blog
- Continuous integration and delivery of web apps from Atlasssian Bitbucket by Mohammad Jalloul
- Digging into network health using Application Insights extensibility by Tom Moore
- Storage specific enhancements in Azure Site Recovery by Poornima Natarajan
Videos
Here are some videos about Azure features that were released this week:
- RW Q&A: Sam George, director of Microsoft’s Azure IoT via readwrite
- Developer Support Series: Service Fabric – Next-Generation cloud application platform for Hyper Scale, stageful and stateless micro services via Channel 9
- Cloud Cover Episode 206: Bot Framework with Mike Hall via Channel 9
- Cloud Cover Episode 207: Netflix Spinnaker on Azure with Andy Glover, Richard Guthrie, and Arun Chandrasekhar via Channel 9
- Release Management with VSTS & integration with Azure, Chef and Octopus Deploy via Channel 9
- DevOps Dimensions episode 8: Docker Best Practices & Industry Future via Channel 9
Audio / Podcasts
Here’s some audio and podcasts that discuss Azure from this week:
- TWC9: Happy 25th VB, Azure DevTest Labs available, Fetch, Why SQL Server 2016 Rocks and more… via Channel 9
- DotNetRocks episode 1299: Identity as a Service with Vittorio Bertocci
- Episode 129 – Azure Backup & Site Recovery via The Azure Podcast
- TechDays Online: Nano Satellite Project via Channel 9