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The Weeks Top Links

Here are some of the most notable links from the week:

• Terraform: Get Azure Subscription Reference via Chris Pietschmann
• Terraform Quickstart Templates OSS Project from Build5Nines via Chris Pietschmann
• AzAPI Terraform Provider: Introduction to working with Azure Preview Resources via Chris Pietschmann
• Deploy Azure Landing Zones using Azure Bicep via Thomas Maurer
• Microsoft’s Arm-based Azure VMs are ready to roll via ZDNET | microsoft RSS
• Azure Virtual Machines with Ampere Altra Arm–based processors—generally available via Paul Nash

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)

• Announcing new enhancements for Azure VMware Solution via Ram Gowrishankar
• VMware Wants To Erase The Lines Between Datacenter, Cloud, And Edge via Jeffrey Burt
• Azure Virtual Machines with Ampere Altra Arm–based processors—generally available via Paul Nash
• Microsoft’s Arm-based Azure VMs are ready to roll via ZDNET | microsoft RSS
• Testing your internet speed from the command line on Windows, Linux, or Mac via Tobias Zimmergren
• Enhance Azure Firewall policy management with Tufin SecureTrack integration via Yuval Pery

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

• A Heavy Lift: Bringing Kestrel + YARP to Azure App Services via Byron Tardif

Power Platform

• No-code Automation for Azure Boards Using Azure Logic Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents via Jason Hand – Cloud Advocate

Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)

• No-code Automation for Azure Boards Using Azure Logic Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents via Jason Hand – Cloud Advocate

Software as a Service (SaaS)

• A holistic view of Security Dynamics 365 via Andre Camillo

DevOps

• Learn Everything About PowerShell Start-Transcript via Nicholas Xuan Nguyen
• Testing your internet speed from the command line on Windows, Linux, or Mac via Tobias Zimmergren
• First impressions of the web terminal in Azure Databricks via Kevin Chant
• Terraform: Get Azure Subscription Reference via Chris Pietschmann
• Terraform Run Tasks Ecosystem Continues to Grow via Alejandra Velasquez
• Terraform Quickstart Templates OSS Project from Build5Nines via Chris Pietschmann
• AzAPI Terraform Provider: Introduction to working with Azure Preview Resources via Chris Pietschmann
• My insights about measuring DORA DevOps Metrics, and how you can learn from my mistakes via Sam Smith
• GitHub Actions Secrets : The Way to Secure Your Automation via Edem Afenyo
• List All Rewrite Rule Sets on an Application GW with Azure CLI via Danny McDermott
• Deploy Azure Managed Grafana using ARM templates via Dave R – Microsoft Azure MVP☁️

Data

• How to store a complex object as JSON in a PostgreSQL database using Entity Framework (Npgsql) ? via Antti K. Koskela
• Updates and deletes with Azure Synapse Link for SQL Server 2022 via Kevin Chant
• An Introduction To Databases via Barret
• VMware Wants To Erase The Lines Between Datacenter, Cloud, And Edge via Jeffrey Burt
• First impressions of the web terminal in Azure Databricks via Kevin Chant
• Improved Local Dev With CosmosDB and devcontainers via Aaron Powell
• Intel Hopes To Accelerate Datacenter And Edge With A Slew Of Chips via Jeffrey Burt
• Data governance: 5 tips for holistic data protection via Christine Barrett

Internet of Things (IoT)

• Running HiveMQ MQTT broker on Azure IoT Edge via Sander van de Velde | Microsoft MVP | IoT Solution Architect | Speaker | Maker
• Google is exiting the IoT services business. Microsoft is doing the opposite via ZDNET | microsoft RSS

Machine Learning (ML) / Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• High-performance storage for AI Model Training tasks using Azure ML studio with Azure NetApp Files via GeertVanTeylingen

Containers (Docker, Kubernetes, Service Fabric, etc)

• Improved Local Dev With CosmosDB and devcontainers via Aaron Powell
• Microsoft continues its push to get more of its own services hosted on Azure. And Kubernetes is key via ZDNET | microsoft RSS
• Improved Local Dev With CosmosDB and devcontainers via LINQ to Fail
• Improved Local Dev With CosmosDB and devcontainers via LINQ to Fail
• Improved Local Dev With CosmosDB and devcontainers via Posts on LINQ to Fail
• What It Means to Be OpenAPI-First in Kubernetes via Abdallah Abedraba

Security, Identity, and Privacy

• A holistic view of Security Dynamics 365 via Andre Camillo
• Microsoft Security highlights from Black Hat USA 2022 via Christine Barrett

Government

• Data governance: 5 tips for holistic data protection via Christine Barrett

Linux

• Canonical, Microsoft Bring Ubuntu on Arm to Azure via Paul Thurrott
• Testing your internet speed from the command line on Windows, Linux, or Mac via Tobias Zimmergren

Other

• Ultimate guide for Enterprise-scale landing zone for Azure. via Musunuru Sharmila
• Azure private MEC—A thriving partner ecosystem via Tad Brockway
• What Can a Service Mesh Do? via Van Phan
• Introduction to Azure Automation (again) via Travis Roberts
• Azure Bicep — Deploy an N-Tier Architecture via Dave R – Microsoft Azure MVP☁️
• Microsoft to enact new cloud outsourcing and hosting licensing changes which still don’t address core customer concerns via ZDNET | microsoft RSS
• Deploy Azure Landing Zones using Azure Bicep via Thomas Maurer
• China Launches The Inevitable Indigenous GPU via Timothy Prickett Morgan
• How a Cloud Skills Shortage Is Affecting Multi-Cloud Adoption via Fredric Paul
• Azure Tip: View or disconnect current P2S VPN sessions via wmatthyssen
• Use DNS Application Directory Partitions with conditional forwarders to resolve Azure private endpoints via workinghardinit
• New Windows Outlook app gets support for personal Microsoft accounts via Sharron Bennet
• Windows 8’s missing startup sound has been hiding in plain sight via Tom Warren

Videos

Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:

• LunchBytes – Using Terraform with Azure DevOps via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
• AI Show Live – Episode 65 – Azure Form Recognizer, Deep Learning Container with PyTorch and AzureML via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
• Start using EF Core with your existing Azure SQL Database in 5 minutes | Data Exposed: MVP Edition via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
• Low Code Revolution – Inside the New RPA Developer Certification via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
• Introduction to Azure Quantum via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
• Lessons Learned from the Azure Database Support Blog Series | Data Exposed via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
• Creating a Logic App to Retrieve Azure DevOps Query Results on a Schedule via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
• AI Show Live – Episode 64 – Applied AI: Computer Vision and OCR via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
• Manually Triggering an Azure Logic App to Test the Template Automation via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
• Azure Landing Zones Bicep – Enabling landing zones via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
• Azure Landing Zones Bicep – Enabling platform services via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
• Introduction to Azure Landing Zones Bicep via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
• Adding a Field to an Azure Boards Query to Use with a Logic App via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
• Triggering a Logic App to Retrieve Results from an Azure Boards Query via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube

Podcast

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 436 – App Services on Kestrel via The Azure Podcast
• Mathias Brandewinder: Math and Machine Learning using .NET – Episode 208 via Azure DevOps Podcast
• Securing Operational Technology (OT) via The Azure Security Podcast
• Episode 296 – Microsoft Purview data loss prevention via Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
• Microsoft Defender for Cloud – AWS and GCP via The Azure Security Podcast
• 148 – Tackling DDoS attacks in Azure via Ctrl+Alt+Azure

Azure Service Updates

Here are the latest service updates from Microsoft over the last week:

• Public preview: Azure Arc-enabled servers in Azure China
• Generally available: Azure Arc-enabled servers in South Africa North
• Public preview: Ephemeral OS disks supports host-based encryption using customer managed key
• Generally available: IoT Edge 1.4
• Generally available: Prevent a lifecycle management policy from archiving recently rehydrated blobs
• General availability: ExpressRoute IPv6 Support for Global Reach
• General availability: Azure Data Explorer supports native ingestion from Amazon S3

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