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:
- Getting Started with Azure CLI and Cloud Shell – Azure CLI Kung Fu Series via Build5Nines
- Intel launches new Intel Lakefield processors to take on ARM chipsets via Pradeep
- Introducing live video analytics from Azure Media Services—now in preview via Milan Gada
- Hololens 2 Available for US! via Lance Larsen
- Installing .NET 5 using winget, the Windows Package Manager via Tobias Zimmergren
- Azure CLI – Interactive Mode via Gregor Suttie
- Running .NET 5 on Azure App Services via Tobias Zimmergren
- Securing Remote Virtual Machines Using Azure Bastion via Russell Smith
The Ultimate Guide to Microsoft Certification
Advance your career through cloud certification
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?
Microsoft and cloud certification helps you keep up-to-date on the latest technologies in a structured, easy to follow path, that is also verifiable by your peers and future career opportunities.
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 Remote Virtual Machines Using Azure Bastion via Russell Smith
- Azure Firewall forced tunneling and SQL FQDN filtering now generally available via Yair Tor
- Vnet Integration for Your App Service via Jan-V.nl
- Connect and Secure Azure PaaS services to Virtual Networks with Private Link via RogerG117
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Running .NET 5 on Azure App Services via Tobias Zimmergren
- General availability of Azure Files on-premises Active Directory Domain Services authentication via Mike Emard
- Azure Files enhances data protection capabilities via Sibonay Koo
- Integrate an Azure Storage Account with Active Directory via Geert Baeke
- Vnet Integration for Your App Service via Jan-V.nl
- Connect and Secure Azure PaaS services to Virtual Networks with Private Link via RogerG117
- Set cache-control to Azure blob storage items via Tidjani Belmansour, Ph.D.
Software as a Service (SaaS)
- How To Set Up Azure Active Directory Connect For Your Office 365 Tenancy via June Castillote
DevOps
- One Ops Question: Should I use Azure Resource Manager Templates or Terraform? via Pierre Roman
- Demystifying Pipelines in Azure DevOps (Build and Deployment) via Subodh Sohoni
- Hands-on with the new HashiCorp Terraform VS Code Extension via AdinErmie
- Here’s what’s coming in Windows Terminal 2.0 (roadmap) via Surur
- How to hide or edit the reason field in Azure DevOps via Dan Hellem
- Azure – PowerShell – Device User and Owner ObjectId via MrNetTek
- June patches for Azure DevOps Server and Team Foundation Server via Gloridel Morales
- Azure CLI – Interactive Mode via Gregor Suttie
- T-SQL Tuesday #127 – Create your own Azure DevOps organization via Kevin
Data
- Exporting Visual Studio App Center Data to an existing Azure Application Insights via Abhijit Jana
- July 30th – Online Training: Securing Azure Services & Data Through Azure Networking via AFinn
- Azure Files enhances data protection capabilities via Sibonay Koo
- Azure Firewall forced tunneling and SQL FQDN filtering now generally available via Yair Tor
- T-SQL Tuesday #127 – Create your own Azure DevOps organization via Kevin
Internet of Things (IoT)
- Azure Sphere OS update 20.06 is now available for compatibility testing via Featured Blog
Machine Learning (ML) / Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Intel’s Newest Processor Family is Aimed Squarely at ARM via Paul Thurrott
- Azure Machine Learning—what’s new from Build 2020 via Erez Barak
Development
- Microsoft finally gives AppGet developer the credit he deserves via Tom Warren
- Exporting Visual Studio App Center Data to an existing Azure Application Insights via Abhijit Jana
- Hands-on with the new HashiCorp Terraform VS Code Extension via AdinErmie
- Running .NET 5 on Azure App Services via Tobias Zimmergren
- Installing .NET 5 using winget, the Windows Package Manager via Tobias Zimmergren
Containers (Docker, Kubernetes, Service Fabric, etc)
- Deploy WordPress on Azure Kubernetes Service via Dave Rendón
- Learn how to use Azure Kubernetes Service Diagnostics via Michael Crump
- Tutorial: Connect Amazon EKS and Azure AKS Clusters with Google Anthos via Janakiram MSV
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) System and User Node Pools via Pixel Robots.
Security, Identity, and Privacy
- Quickly Check Azure Resources Security Hygiene via Abhijit Jana
- AzureFunBytes – Episode 2 – Azure Active Directory with Phoummala Schmitt – @ExchangeGoddess via Jay Gordon
- General availability of Azure Files on-premises Active Directory Domain Services authentication via Mike Emard
- Barracuda and Microsoft: Removing security barriers to faster public cloud adoption via Jim Flack
- Microsoft won’t sell facial recognition to police until Congress passes new privacy law via Nick Statt
- How To Set Up Azure Active Directory Connect For Your Office 365 Tenancy via June Castillote
- Integrate an Azure Storage Account with Active Directory via Geert Baeke
- 11 security tips to help stay safe in the COVID-19 era via Jim Flack
- Microsoft Announces Azure Active Directory External Identities via Russell Smith
Hardware
Events
- Azure Machine Learning—what’s new from Build 2020 via Erez Barak
Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality
- Hololens 2 Available for US! via Lance Larsen
- Anyone can now buy Microsoft HoloLens 2 in the US via Pradeep
- Research Mode support for HoloLens 2 coming in July 2020 via Pradeep
Other
- Οptimize your Azure environment via Pantelis Apostolidis
- How to check your Azure Subscription Support Plan? via Abhijit Jana
- Enable or disable pop-up notifications in Azure Portal via Abhijit Jana
- New features and insights in Azure Monitor via Rahul Bagaria
- Introducing live video analytics from Azure Media Services—now in preview via Milan Gada
- China Mobile International’s JegoTrip app increases travel safety with Bing Maps via Bing Team
- Microsoft reiterates it won’t sell facial-recognition tech to police until federal regulation passed via ZDNet | microsoft RSS
- Business Continuity with Azure – Connectivity via Techielass
- Issue while replicating an On-premise Hyper-V guest to Azure error code 8079002c via Thomas Thornton
- Nested Virtualization support finally comes to AMD processors via Pradeep
- How to create your own Azure Monitor Workbooks? via Abhijit Jana
- The science behind Microsoft Threat Protection: Attack modeling for finding and stopping evasive ransomware via Eric Avena
- Intel launches new Intel Lakefield processors to take on ARM chipsets via Pradeep
- Twitch Show: @Azure, Social Issues and Observability – Guest @austinlparker – AzureFunBytes Reminder! via Jay Gordon
- Using Azure Monitor Workbooks for Quick Monitoring Analytics via Abhijit Jana
- Microsoft’s new patent reveals information about the hinge on dual-screen Surface devices via Sean Chan
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
- Getting Started with Azure CLI and Cloud Shell – Azure CLI Kung Fu Series via Build5Nines
- Stream #102 – Summary – Starting Tiny Blazor Admin project via Frank Boucher
- Cognizant’s Connected Factories | Internet of Things Show via Channel 9
- The bleeding edge of modern web apps on Azure | BDL178 via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
- Cognizant Connected Factories via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
- What developers are doing with Postgres & MySQL on Azure | INT126A via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
- Live Video Analytics on Azure IoT Edge | Internet of Things Show 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:
- Episode 334 – Windows Containers in AKS via The Azure Podcast
- Azure Security Podcast – CosmosDB Security via The Azure Security Podcast
- Episode 181 – Deep[er] Dive on Azure Sentinel via Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
- The State of VB.NET with Kathleen Dollard via .NET Rocks!
- 033 – Governance with the Azure Resource Graph via Ctrl+Alt+Azure
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:
- Azure Sphere OS update 20.06 is now available for compatibility testing
- Azure IoT Central jobs and metrics feature updates—May 2020
- Budgets in Cost Management now accounts threshold edits and alert limits above 100%
- Live Video Analytics now in public preview
- Azure API Management updates—June 2020
- Azure App Service hybrid connections for Linux apps is now available
- Azure App Service regional virtual network integration for Linux apps is now available
- Azure SQL Database serverless compute auto-scaling limits increase more than twofold
- Windows Server containers in AKS is now available in Azure Government
- Azure Kubernetes Service upgrade improvements are now in preview
- Azure Kubernetes Service—Integrated application gateway feature now available
- Azure Spring Cloud updates
- Azure Media Services now supports Live Transcription preview in additional regions
- Azure Spring Cloud Basic tier is now in preview
- Transparent data encryption with customer-managed keys for Azure SQL Database Hyperscale
- Data encryption for Azure Database for PostgreSQL—single server
- Large storage for Azure Database for MariaDB
- Data encryption with customer-managed keys for Azure Database for MySQL
- Redirection support for the mysqlnd PHP driver connecting to MariaDB now in preview
- Azure Policy support for Azure Cosmos DB is now available
- Azure Cosmos DB Java SDK 4.0 for Core (SQL) API release now in general availability
- Azure SQL Database Hyperscale—Transparent data encryption with customer-managed keys now in preview
- Machine Learning on Azure SQL Managed Instance limited preview available
- Azure IoT Central—May 2020 dashboard updates
- Azure Service Fabric 7.1 First Refresh Release
- Azure Databricks is now available in the Azure Government cloud (in preview)
- Azure DevOps Services now simplifies Azure Artifacts integration with other services
- A new consolidated API version in Azure Monitor Logs is now available
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
