Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within Build5Nines Weekly newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past week. Be sure to subscribe to Build5Nines Weekly to get the newsletter in your email every week and never miss a thing!The Weeks Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:- GitHub Mobile App Released via Chris Pietschmann
- GitHub acquires npm via Chris Pietschmann
- Tip 257 – Making the most out of the Azure CLI Interactive Mode via Azure Tips and Tricks
- Take Remote Worker/Educator webcam video calls to the next level with OBS, NDI Tools, and Elgato Stream Deck via Scott Hanselman
- How to use Azure App Service managed certificates via Michael Crump
- An IoT Busy light for folks working from home via Jim Bennett ☁️
The Ultimate Guide to Microsoft Certification
Advance your career through cloud certification
Book written by Chris Pietschmann
Order Today!
This book will guide you through choosing which certification path(s) to follow you’re your unique career goals and technical background. It’ll also explore all the different certifications Microsoft offers, as well as many of your questions, like:
- Which certification is right for me?
- How much does it cost to get certified?
- What are the exams like?
- How do I get started?
- How do I study?
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)
- Securing your Virtual Network with Azure Firewall and Network Security Groups via Thomas Thornton
- Microsoft teases new Windows 10 UI in video celebrating a billion users via Tom Warren
- Azure -Disaster Recovery for SAP HANA Systems via Deepak
- Azure Hub-Spoke Network Configuration with Azure Firewall DNAT using PowerShell via Thomas Thornton
- Govern Azure Virtual Network (VNet) CIDR Ranges with Azure Policy via AdinErmie
- New VS Code extension to manage Azure VMs via Yohan Lasorsa
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- How to use Azure App Service managed certificates via Michael Crump
Power Platform
Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Microsoft Teams Hits 44 Million Active Users, New Features on the Way via Paul Thurrott
- Microsoft Teams usage up by 12 million in the past week, hitting 44 million daily active users, due largely to COVID-19 via ZDNet | microsoft RSS
Command-Line (CLI) / ARM Templates
- Tip 257 – Making the most out of the Azure CLI Interactive Mode via Azure Tips and Tricks
- Run Azure PowerShell in a Docker Container via Thomas Maurer
- Azure Hub-Spoke Network Configuration with Azure Firewall DNAT using PowerShell via Thomas Thornton
Big Data / Database
- Azure Event Hubs multi-protocol support via Abhishek Gupta
- How to add a FREE MongoDB database to your NestJS API with TypeORM via Yohan Lasorsa
- Filesystem SDKs for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 now generally available via Priya Shetty
- Trimming expenses on The Urlist with Azure Cosmos DB Free Tier via Burke Holland
- SDU Tools: List of common currencies in SQL Server T-SQL via greglowblog
- Recommended Azure SQL Database learning resources via Kevin
Internet of Things (IoT)
- How to implement image sideloading in Azure IoT Edge via Sander van de Velde
- IoT Edge 1.0.9 via Featured Blog
- An IoT Busy light for folks working from home via Jim Bennett ☁️
- Micro Python on ESP32 to send telemetry to Azure IoT Hub with MQTT via Featured Blog
- Azure IoT Edge on Kubernetes Preview Refresh available now! via Featured Blog
DevOps / Development
- Approval Workflows With Github Actions via Posts on LINQ to Fail
- Azure Logic App to publish COVID19 developments on Twitter via Aram Koukia
- Using GitHub Actions to deploy a .Net Web App via Gregor Suttie
- Running Your Test Suite in Azure DevOps On A Mac Build Agent And Publishing The Results via Calvin A. Allen
- Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2020.03.20 via Steven Murawski
- GitHub Mobile App Released via Chris Pietschmann
- Introducing the New Pull Request Experience for Azure Repos via Apeksha Awasthi
- Filesystem SDKs for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 now generally available via Priya Shetty
- Micro Python on ESP32 to send telemetry to Azure IoT Hub with MQTT via Featured Blog
- Supporting SHA-2 algorithm in SSH on Azure DevOps via Jimson Chalissery [MSFT]
- New Deploy to Azure extension for Visual Studio Code via Pulkit Agarwal
- New VS Code extension to manage Azure VMs via Yohan Lasorsa
- VS Code February 2020 Release Highlights Video via Brian Clark 💡
- GitHub acquires npm via Chris Pietschmann
Containers (Docker, Kubernetes, Service Fabric, etc)
- Run Azure PowerShell in a Docker Container via Thomas Maurer
- High available control plane with Istio 1.5 on Azure Kubernetes Service via Daniel
- Azure IoT Edge on Kubernetes Preview Refresh available now! via Featured Blog
Security, Identity, and Privacy
- Securing your Virtual Network with Azure Firewall and Network Security Groups via Thomas Thornton
- Welcoming more women into cybersecurity: the power of mentorships via Todd VanderArk
Government
Other
- Microsoft to prioritize cloud access for first responders and emergency services via Tom Warren
- Microsoft’s Healthcare Bot service helps power CDC’s COVID-19 assessment bot via ZDNet | microsoft RSS
- Take Remote Worker/Educator webcam video calls to the next level with OBS, NDI Tools, and Elgato Stream Deck via Scott Hanselman
- Our commitment to customers and Microsoft cloud services continuity via Microsoft Azure
- Dreams and Nightmares of Ops via Jay Gordon
- Protecting against coronavirus themed phishing attacks via Todd VanderArk
- Satya Nadella, Jared Spataro Discuss the Impact of COVID-19 via Paul Thurrott
- Professional quality audio with the Blue Yeti, GarageBand and Screenflow via Burke Holland
- How to know how much your application is consuming on Azure via Frank Boucher ☁
- Destigmatizing Mental Health in the Tech Industry with Jen Akullian, PhD via scott@hanselman.com (Scott Hanselman)
- Connect Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine to Azure VPN via Thomas Maurer
- Microsoft announces new Teams features as usage skyrockets nearly 40 percent in a week via Tom Warren
- Apple finally admits Microsoft was right about tablets via Tom Warren
- Apple Unveils Upgraded iPad Pro With Trackpad Support via Mehedi Hassan
- Unified network monitoring with Connection Monitor now in preview via Viny Nigam
- Everything is Cyber-Broken, The Online Edition! via Troy Hunt
- Forrester names Microsoft a Leader in 2020 Enterprise Detection and Response Wave via Todd VanderArk
- BizTalk Server 2020 – 20 days, 20 posts: BizTalk Filter Finder Tool for BizTalk Server 2020 via Sandro Pereira
- Why the Best Open Source Is Community-Led Open Source via B. Cameron Gain
- On.NET Episode: Improving accessibility of health insurance in the Dominican Republic via Cecil L. Phillip 🇦🇬
- New features for Form Recognizer now available via Neta Haiby
- Microsoft Shuts All Its Retail Stores Worldwide Amid Coronavirus Concerns via Mehedi Hassan
- NEW E-BOOK UPDATE: Parallel Virtual File Systems on Microsoft Azure via AzureCAT
- New MacBook Air Launches With Apple’s Fixed Keyboard Design via Mehedi Hassan
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:- Go serverless: Containers with Kubernetes and virtual nodes | Azure Friday via Channel 9
- Go serverless: Event-driven applications with Azure Functions | Azure Friday via Channel 9
- How to know how much your application is consuming on Azure via Frank Boucher
- SQL Server Licensing: High Availability / Disaster Recovery hybrid | Data Exposed via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
- How can developers contribute to the Dual Screen community | One Dev Question via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
- Microsoft France: Meet Microsoft Cloud Advocates | CodeStories via Channel 9
- SQL Server Licensing: High Availability / Disaster Recovery hybrid | Data Exposed | Data Exposed via Channel 9
- 2020-03-13 (VOD) Building a budget Url Shortener using Azure Serverless via Frank Boucher
- Manage and govern your hybrid servers using Azure Arc | Azure Friday via Channel 9
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:- Heather Wilde on Managing Remote Teams – Episode 81 via Azure DevOps Podcast
- Episode 169 – Working From Home via Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
- 021 – Talking about Azure Sentinel with Maarten Goet via Ctrl+Alt+Azure
- Episode 351 | When the World Tips Upside Down, Work From Home via Microsoft Cloud Show
Latest Featured Articles
Azure Pipeline: Publish Unit Test and Code Coverage Results with .NET 7 Solution using VSTest, Cobertura, and Coverlet
When setting up CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment) pipelines in Azure DevOps for .NET 7+ solutions, such as those using ASP.NET Core, it's important to setup an automated build. The automated build will need to use the dotnet CLI to build the...
Top 5 Cloud Architecture Design Patterns to use in Microsoft Azure
When designing application architectures in the cloud, it's important to choose the correct architecture design patterns to ensure scalability, reliability, and performance. There is a very large list of architecture design patterns to choose from. This article,...
Terraform Best Practices for Writing Clean, Readable, and Maintainable Code
HashiCorp Terraform has become one of the most popular infrastructure as code (IaC) tools. Terraform allows you to define and manage your infrastructure deployments across one or multiple cloud providers through code. This makes it easier to manage, version, and...
Terraform State Management Explained
Terraform state management is extremely important with all Terraform projects. State management is the feature that allows you to manage, store, and retrieve the current state of the resources managed by your Terraform infrastructure as code (IaC) deployments. In this...
Terraform: Deploy Azure Function App with Consumption Plan
HashiCorp Terraform is great for deploying any Microsoft Azure resource, and the same applies to deploying serverless compute with Azure Function Apps in the Microsoft Azure cloud. Azure Function Apps are a very heavily used compute service in Microsoft Azure, and one...
Terraform: Store Backend State in Azure Storage Account
One of the things that HashiCorp Terraform requires to work is the ability to save and store the Terraform State Management (.tfstate) file. By default, the state management file is stored locally where the Terraform CLI is run. While this does provide the necessary...
Azure Service Updates
Here are the latest service updates from Microsoft over the last week:- Updates to .NET implementation support in latest Azure IoT C# SDK release
- Azure Web Application Firewall for Azure Content Delivery Network is in preview
- 101 services at FedRAMP High as Azure Government continues expanding capacity
- Native Mongo shell on Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB is now in preview
- Multi-organization billing for Azure DevOps is now available
- Azure IoT Edge 1.0.9 release is now available
- Azure Storage—Append Blob immutability support now generally available
- Log Analytics Agent for Windows March 2020 release is now available
- Action Required—Log Analytics agent for Windows will enforce SHA-2 signing on May 18, 2020
- HBv2-Series VMs are Generally Available in West Europe
- Cognitive Services introduces new Neural Text to Speech voices for different styles
- Onboard on-prem servers to Security Center from Windows Admin Center
- Azure Shared Disks for clustered applications preview now available
- Azure Sentinel generally available in Azure Government
- App Service regional Virtual Network integration is now available
- Azure Cache for Redis reserved capacity now available
- Azure Functions custom handlers are now in preview
- FastTrack for Azure is now generally available in MEA
- Private Link for Azure SQL Database is now available
- Azure Front Door—March 2020 updates
Feedback
If you have any suggestions or general feedback on the Build5Nines Weekly, then I’d love to hear it! Please contact me and send it on over! Please feel free to reach out to let me know your feedback on the Build5Nines Weekly series. I post this weekly post as a service to others and really want to make it the best it can be! Thanks for subscribing to Build5Nines Weekly!
Chris Pietschmann
Microsoft MVP – Azure
Founder, Build5Nines.com
About the Author
Chris Pietschmann
Chris Pietschmann is a Microsoft MVP, HashiCorp Ambassador, and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) with 20+ years of experience designing and building Cloud & Enterprise systems. He has worked with companies of all sizes from startups to large enterprises. He has a passion for technology and sharing what he learns with others to help enable them to learn faster and be more productive.
Terraform: If/Else Conditional Resource and Module Deployment
Azure Functions: Extend Execution Timeout Past 5 Minutes
Use Terraform Input Variables to Parameterize Infrastructure Deployments
Properly Shutdown Azure VM to Save Money
Azure Resource Naming Conventions and Best Practices
