Azure Friday

Azure Integration Services brings together API Management, Logic Apps, Service Bus, and Event Grid as a reliable, scalable platform for integrating on-premises and cloud-based applications, data, and processes across your enterprise. Jump To: [04:41] Demo Start Azure Integration Services overviewAzure Integration Services white paperAzure Integration Services docsBasic enterprise integration on Az...

Azure Instance Metadata Service is used to provide information about a running virtual machine that can be used to configure and manage the machine. With the latest updates, Azure Marketplace vendors can now validate that their image is running in Azure. Jump To: [01:22] Demo Start Azure Instance Metadata serviceInstance metadata data categoriesAzure Virtual MachinesAzure MarketplaceCreate a free...

Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed serverless offering on Azure. With the new Anomaly Detection functions in Stream Analytics, the whole complexity associated with building and training custom machine learning (ML) models is reduced to a simple function call resulting in lower costs, faster time to value, and lower latencies. Jump To: [12:09] Demo Start Anomaly Detection in Azure Stream Ana...

As the adoption of Kubernetes grows, secret management tools must integrate well with Kubernetes so that the sensitive data can be protected in the containerized world. On this episode, Yoko Hakuna demonstrates the HashiCorp Vault's Kubernetes auth method for identifying the validity of containers requesting access to the secrets. Jump To: [01:38] Demo Start HashiCorp Vault project websiteGet star...

Working with Microsoft, HashiCorp launched Vault with a number of features to make secret management easier to automate in Azure cloud. Yoko Hyakuna from HashiCorp joins Donovan Brown to show how Azure Key Vault can auto-unseal the HashiCorp Vault server, and then how HashiCorp Vault can dynamically generate Azure credentials for apps using its Azure secrets engine feature. Jump To: [01:27] Demo S...

Gaurav Malhotra joins Lara Rubbelke (@sqlgal) to show how to use predefined Azure Data Factory pipeline templates to get started quickly with Azure Data Factory thereby reducing the development time for building data integration projects. Jump To: [00:58] Demo Start Overview of templates for Azure Data FactoryAzure Data Factory overviewAzure Data Factory docsAzure Data Factory pricingGet started q...

Alex Frankel (@sonofdiesel) joins Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) to discuss Azure Blueprints. Environment creation can be a long and error prone process. Azure Blueprints helps you deploy and update cloud environments in a repeatable manner using composable artifacts such as policies, role-based access control, and Azure Resource Manager templates. Jump To: [05:05] Demo Start Azure Blueprints docsG...

Manoj Raheja joins Lara Rubbelke (@sqlgal) to demonstrate Azure Data Explorer (ADX) and provide an overview of the service from provisioning to querying. ADX is a fast, fully managed data analytics service for real-time analysis on large volumes of streaming data. It brings together a highly performant and scalable cloud analytics service with an intuitive query language to deliver near-instant in...

Learn about the new code-free visual data transformation capabilities in Azure Data Factory as Gaurav Malhotra joins Lara Rubbelke (@sqlgal) to demonstrate how you can visually design, build, and manage data transformation processes without learning Spark or having a deep understanding of the distributed infrastructure. Jump To: [02:45] Demo Start Azure Data Factory mapping data flowsAzure Data Fa...

Gaurav Malhotra and Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) explore tagging support and enhanced monitoring capabilities, including dashboards and improved debugging support in Azure Data Factory. Data integration is complex and the ability to monitor your data factory pipelines is a key requirement for dev ops personnel inside an enterprise. Now, you can tag/annotate your data factory pipelines to monitor...

Steve Steuart from Astadia joins Scott Hanselman to show how a mainframe reference architecture based on Azure enables you to deploy your mainframe assets to a native Azure environment. You can the leverage all the available Azure services with your new mainframe in the cloud, including AI, Power BI, IoT, and Machine Learning. Jump To: [04:40] Demo Start Mainframe Migration - Azure Migration Cente...

Chris Anderson (@crandycodes) joins Donovan Brown (@donovanbrown) to discuss Azure Cosmos DB JavaScript SDK 2.0, which adds support for multi-region writes, a new fluent-style object model—making it easier to reference Azure Cosmos DB resources without an explicit URL—and support for promises and other modern JavaScript features. It is also written in TypeScript and supports the latest TypeScript...

Data Integration is complex and helps organizations to combine data and complex business processes in hybrid data environments. The increase in volume, variety and velocity of data has led to delays in monitoring and reacting to issues. Organizations want to reduce the risk of data integration activity failures and the impact to other downstream processes. Manual approaches to monitoring data inte...

HashiCorp Consul is a distributed service mesh to connect, secure, and configure services across any runtime platform and public or private cloud. In this episode, Scott Hanselman is joined by HashiCorp's Geoffrey Grossenbach who uses Helm to install a Consul server to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster. Next, he deploys and secures a pair of microservices with Consul. Jump To: [00:50] Demo St...

Azure Functions is a serverless compute service that enables you to run code on-demand without having to explicitly provision or manage infrastructure. Using Azure Functions, you can run a script or piece of code in response to a variety of events. Azure Data Factory (ADF) is a managed data integration service in Azure that enables you to iteratively build, orchestrate, and monitor your Extract Tr...

Chris Anderson joins Donovan Brown to discuss how to use Azure Cosmos DB and other great Azure services to build a highly-scalable, real-time, collaborative application. You'll see techniques for using the Azure Cosmos DB change feed in both Azure Functions and SignalR applications. We also briefly touch on how custom authentication works with Azure Functions. Jump To: [06:15] Demo Start For more...

What is it like to intern at Microsoft? Scott Hanselman meets with three interns from the Microsoft Explorer Program (a cross-discipline internship designed for college freshmen and sophomores) to talk about their experience working on the Azure Container Registry and their contribution of ACR Build and Task capabilities to the Visual Studio Code Docker Extension. Interns on this project:Jackson S...

Dan Fernandez joins Donovan Brown to give a quick tour of Microsoft Learn. With Microsoft Learn, you learn-by-doing with interactive, step-by-step tutorials creating real resources in Azure. Even better - it's free and no credit card is required. Jump To: [02:00] Demo Start Microsoft LearnA Tour of Microsoft LearnMicrosoft Learn Azure ContentAzure Fundamentals Learning PathCreate a free account (A...

Whether you're trying to wrap your head around architectural concepts, or you need to get down into the nitty gritty of understanding a particular API, Dan Fernandez joins Donovan Brown to show how Azure Docs has you covered. Jump To: [02:20] Demo Start Azure Architecture CenterInteractive code snippets in String. Format Method (System)Cognitive Toolkit Python API Package ReferenceMicrosoft Cognit...

Did you know that the Azure docs are not only open source, but it's currently the fastest growing project on GitHub? Dan Fernandez joins Donovan Brown to show off some cool features, a few tips & tricks, how you can contribute, and a few buried treasures. Jump To:[01:22] Demo Start Azure documentationMicrosoft Docs contributor guide overviewCreate a free account (Azure)Learning Azure series:Pa...

Carlton Gibson, Django Software Fellow and Django maintainer, joins Nina Zakharenko to show how to set up a Python application with Django REST Framework and develop with Visual Studio Code, from installing the Python extension to using the integrated terminal and debugging. Visual Studio Code is free and open source, and runs on macOS, Linux and Windows. Jump To: [00:50] Demo Start Python on Visu...

Carlton Gibson, Django Software Fellow and Django maintainer, joins Nina Zakharenko to share his experience running Python apps with Django in a "serverless" way using Azure Functions. He'll demo how developers can deploy infinitely scalable Django web apps in a managed infrastructure that bills them only for the pages that are requested. Jump To: [00:50] Demo Start Azure Functions docsP...

Nina Zakharenko is back with Carlton Gibson (Django Software Fellow and Django maintainer) to deploy a Python app built on Django to the cloud using Azure Web Apps. Best of all: when you use Visual Studio Code, you don't need to leave your editor! Jump To: [00:52] Demo Start Python on Visual Studio CodePython on Azure4 new Python/Django video tutorials for productive cloud development (blog post)c...

Carlton Gibson, Django Software Fellow and Django maintainer, is again talking to Nina Zakharenko about using Python and Django. In this episode, Carlton will show how you can use Azure Pipelines (part of Azure DevOps) to enable Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) of Python/Django apps to Azure Web Apps (or anywhere else!).PS Did you know that Azure DevOps is free for individual...

Curious about what's coming for container lifecycle management in Azure? To help you plan your roadmap, Steve Lasker and Scott Hanselman talk about the Azure Container Registry (ACR) roadmap, including updates for production security, reliability features, and developer security. Jump To: [03:19] Demo Start Azure Container RegistryACR RoadmapACR TasksACR Helm RepositoriesACR Content TrustACR Auto...