Azure Friday

Miao Jiang joins Scott Hanselman to demonstrate a sample CI/CD pipeline implemented using Azure DevOps and Azure API Management DevOps resource kit. The sample follows the suggested approach that was introduced in Build a CI/CD pipeline for API Management, Part 1.Azure API Management overviewAzure API Management docsAzure API Management DevOps Resource KitAzure DevOps SolutionsCreate a free accoun...

Miao Jiang joins Scott Hanselman to walk through a conceptual framework for building a CI/CD pipeline to automate the deployment of APIs into Azure API Management. Learn about common automation challenges with API Management and how the suggested approach addresses these challenges. For a demonstration, see: Build a CI/CD pipeline for API Management, Part 2.Azure API Management overviewAzure API M...

Saurya Das joins Scott Hanselman to show how multiple node pools for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) enable you to use different virtual machine sizes in a node pool supporting a variety of workloads in a single AKS cluster. For example, an e-commerce website can have a node pool for a billing service and another for a machine learning-based recommendation service, each with GPUs.[00:39] DemoPrevie...

Jacob Jedryszek joins Scott Hanselman to talk about about using Cognitive Services with Azure Search with your mobile and web apps. Skip hiring search experts who know what an inverted index is. Don't worry about distributed systems expertise to scale your service to handle large amount of data. And forget about setting up, owning and managing the infrastructure. Let Azure Search do it all for you...

When a live site issue or outage occurs, quickly determining the root cause is critical. Standard monitoring solutions might alert you to a problem. They might even indicate which component is failing. But this alert won't always immediately explain the failure's cause. You know your site worked five minutes ago, and now it's broken. What changed in the last five minutes? This is the question that...

Azure Cosmos DB keeps getting better with a preview of notebook support, we've got Apache Spark, great new optimizations in queries, and idiomatic SDKs now on v3. Kirill Gavrylyuk is back once again with all the updates.[00:46] Jupyter Notebooks and Apache Spark[03:21] Standalone Data Explorer with AD support[04:21] Query optimizations[07:18] Idiomatic improvements to Azure Cosmos DB SDKsAzure Cos...

Sharad Agrawal and Teresa Yao join Scott Hanselman to introduce Web Application Firewall (WAF) with Azure Front Door. They show how to configure and block malicious attacks against web applications at the edge of Microsoft's network. WAF with Azure Front Door is the best solution to help protect your web applications without compromising on delivery speed.[05:18] DemoAzure Front Door overviewAzure...

Mike Budzynski is back to share the latest Azure API Management updates with Scott Hanselman.[01:25] Building serverless APIs with Azure Functions & API Management Consumption tier[03:40] Generating object schemas[06:30] New developer portal (now in preview) Azure API Management developer portal (azure/api-management-developer-portal)Azure API Management overviewAzure API Management docsAzure...

Ziv Rafalovich joins Donovan Brown to introduce Azure Dedicated Host, which is a service that provides physical servers - able to host one or more virtual machines - dedicated to one Azure subscription. Dedicated hosts are the same physical servers used in our data centers, provided as a resource. You can provision dedicated hosts within a region, availability zone, and fault domain. Then, you can...

Danny Strockis joins Scott Hanselman to discuss decentralized identity, which gives users ownership of their digital identities and data by leveraging permissionless distributed ledgers.[04:07] Authentication concept[10:30] DemoDecentralized identity – Own your own identityDecentralized Identity Developer DocsDIF – Decentralized Identity Foundationdecentralized-identity GitHub repoCreate a free ac...

Byron Tardif joins Scott Hanselman to show how to leverage Azure App Service features to empower your DevOps to achieve sophisticated scenarios like testing in production using deployment slots with just a few clicks. Azure App Service overviewSet up staging environments in Azure App ServiceAzure App Service docsCreate a free account (Azure)

Deborah Chen joins Scott Hanselman to share some best practices on how to debug and optimize Azure Cosmos DB for better performance. Watch as they go through the common issues newcomers to Azure Cosmos DB run into with respect to performance and how to solve them by tuning Request Unit (RU) cost and choosing a good partition key. Azure Cosmos DB - Globally distributed, multi-model database service...

Jane Mareth joins Scott Hanselman to show how nonprofits with limited budgets can accelerate their cloud adoption with Azure Foundation for nonprofits. The Azure Foundation provides prescriptive scripts, documentation, and diagrams to help nonprofits quickly adopt Microsoft Azure. Azure Foundation also includes governance and security guidance specific to the most common nonprofit scenarios. Azure...

Data integration is complex and has many moving parts that spans across hybrid data environments. Typically, data integration projects have dependencies upstream and downstream making dependencies an important aspect to consider in any job scheduling. Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can create dependent pipelines in Azure Data Factory by creating dependencies between tumbling...

In high performance computing (HPC) workloads, access to storage matters. In this episode, Scott Hanselman and Ron Hogue discuss the new Azure FXT Edge Filer, a new appliance that creates a powerful cache on-premises connecting network attached storage (NAS) and Azure Blob. Azure FXT Edge Filer overviewAzure FXT Edge Filer DocumentationAzure FXT Edge Filer Hybrid Storage Cache: Fast File Access an...

Michael Hansen joins Scott Hanselman to explain what FHIR is and how to get started with FHIR on Azure. Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (or, FHIR) is a new standard for representing and exchanging healthcare data. Developed by the HL7 community to address problems with interoperability, pieces of healthcare data are represented as resources in FHIR (i.e, a patient is a resource, observa...

Sarah Young joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Sentinel, which is a scalable, cloud-native, security information event management (SIEM) and security orchestration automated response (SOAR) solution. Azure Sentinel delivers intelligent security analytics and threat intelligence across the enterprise, providing a single solution for alert detection, threat visibility, proactive hunting, and thr...

Justin Luk joins Scott Hanselman to discuss AKS preview features and enabling new functionality like Virtual Machine Scale Set node pools and Availability Zones. Availability Zones (AZ) is a high availability offering from Azure that protects applications and data from datacenter failures. By using AZ with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), you will get higher reliability and resiliency for your appl...

Did you know that by default, all pods in a Kubernetes cluster will accept traffic from any source? Now, with network policies available out-of-the-box in Azure Kubernetes Service you can isolate pods, control egress & ingress traffic, and secure your workloads. Saurya Das is here to show us how it works. Jump To:[02:03] Demo StartSecure traffic between pods using network policies in Azure Kub...

Azure Data Share is available in public preview today, and offers a simple pane of glass over your data sharing relationships. In this episode, you will learn how to easily provision a new data share, add datasets to it, specify your terms of use and invite recipients. Joanna walks through how you can stay in control of your data through monitoring and governance features which ensure you are alwa...

Windows Container support is available in preview in Azure App Service. By deploying applications via Windows Containers in Azure App Service you can install your dependencies inside the container, call APIs currently blocked by the Azure App Service sandbox and use the power of containers to migrate applications for which you no longer have the source code. All of this and you still get to use th...

Learn Michael Crump's latest Azure tips and tricks that will help you be more productive working with Azure in Visual Studio 2019.Jump To:[00:40] Demo Start Azure Tips and Tricks projectAzure Tips and Tricks videosTip 130: Visual Studio app settingsTip 43: Logic apps in Visual StudioTip 44: Deploy through Visual StudioCreate a free account (Azure)

Learn some of Michael Crump's favorite Azure tips and tricks—some long-standing, and new ones that have recently been added to become more productive with Azure. Watch this video to shave time off your coding tasks. Jump To:[00:35] Demo Start Azure Tips and Tricks projectTip 1: Quickly Changing ThemesTip 23: Testing in ProductionTip 33: LocksTip 31: Email AlertsCreate a free account (Azure)

Learn Michael Crump's latest Azure tips and tricks that will help you be more productive working with Azure in Visual Studio 2019.Jump To:[04:01] Demo Start Azure Tips and Tricks siteAzure Tips and Tricks videosAzure Tips and Tricks GitHub repoCreate a free account (Azure)

Jenny Hunter joins Donovan to showcase a new integration inside Azure Policy that enables you to see recent changes to the properties for non-compliant Azure resources. Public preview of the Resource Change History API is also now available. Jump To:[00:40] Demo Start Determine causes of non-compliance: Change history (Preview)Public Preview: Resource Change History APIResource Graph: Get resource...