Azure Friday

Steve Lasker joins Scott Hanselman to talk about best practices for Docker image tagging, and the tradeoffs between stable and unique tagging techniques. Jump To; [05:10] Demo Start Docker Tagging Best PracticesAzure Container RegistryACR TasksACR PresentationsKubernetes objects on Microsoft AzureACR Helm RepositoriesCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @Steve...

The API Management consumption tier fills helps round out the Azure serverless offering with Azure API Management for serverless applications. In this episode, Mike Budzynski join Scott Hanselman to explain the serverless properties of the new tier and demonstrate how to build a highly scalable serverless application with Function Apps and expose it with API Management. Jump To: [02:49] Demo Start...

Steve Lasker joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Azure Container Registry (ACR) Tasks and how you can build your container images in Azure for the three phases of development: pre-commit, team commits, and post-development for OS & Framework Patching. Jump To: [01:03] Demo Start For more information:Azure Container Registry (ACR) overviewACR TasksACR PresentationsCreate a free account (Azure)F...

Maxim Lukiyanov and Scott Hanselman discuss intricate ways in which Apache Spark jobs can fail in production and how new diagnostics tools, now available in Azure HDInsight, visualize these problems in a new intuitive way and help discover and understand them from the first glance. Jump To: [04:13] Demo Start For more information:Spark Debugging and Diagnostics Toolset for Azure HDInsight (blog po...

Scott Jeschonek joins Azure Friday and Lara Rubbelke to introduce Avere vFXT for Azure, a new Azure Marketplace product with big possibilities for high-performance computing (HPC) environments. Avere vFXT for Azure solves the core issue of running performance-demanding workloads that require NFS backends in the cloud, leveraging either on-premises storage or Azure Blob, without the expected latenc...

Modern games require more powerful development tools, global and flexible multiplayer support, and new revenue models. PlayFab is a complete back-end platform for live games and a powerful way for independent studios to get started. Boost revenue, engagement, and retention—while cutting costs—with game services, real-time analytics, and LiveOps. Jump To: [02:00] Demo Start For more information:Pla...

Shubha Vijayasarathy joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Event Hubs, which makes data ingestion simple, secure, and scalable. As a distributed streaming platform, Event Hubs enables you to stream your data from any source—storing and processing millions of events per second— so you can build dynamic data pipelines and respond to business challenges in real time. With Azure Event Hubs for Apache...

Page Bowers and Donovan Brown discuss how SAP customers are moving to Azure to take advantage of SAP-certified HANA virtual machines such as Azure M-series. Learn how you can use Terraform and Ansible to speed up SAP HANA deployments on Azure in 30 minutes as opposed to hours or days. Jump To: [01:48] Demo Start For more information:Automated SAP Deployments in Azure Cloud (GitHub)SAP on AzureAuto...

Yashesvi Sharma joins Scott Hanselman to discuss reserved virtual machine instances and how the reservation you buy can apply to other virtual machines (VMs) sizes in the same size series group. This ensures that you maximize your discounts and make reservation management easier. Also, you can now save even more by purchasing reservations for SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB, and SUSE Linux usage on...

Gaurav Malhotra and Scott Hanselman discuss how you can now share a self-hosted Integration Runtime (IR) across multiple data factories and consolidate on a single, highly available, multi-node (up to 4 nodes) self-hosted IR infrastructure. Doing so removes the need for separate, self-hosted IRs per project/data factory making it more manageable for the IT/DevOps team. Jump To: [03:05] Demo Start ...

Dhruv Goel and Scott Hanselman discuss why enterprise customers trust Apache Kafka on Azure HDInsight with their streaming ingestion needs. Get even more control over the security of your data at rest with Bring-Your-Own-Key encryption for Kafka. With Azure HDInsight, you get the best of open source and the security and reliability of a managed platform. Jump To: [06:57] Demo Start For more inform...

Dhruv Goel and Scott Hanselman discuss why enterprise customers trust Apache Kafka on Azure HDInsight with their streaming ingestion needs. Integrate Kafka with Azure Active Directory for authentication and set up fine-grained access control with Apache Ranger to let multiple users access Kafka easily and securely. With Azure HDInsight, you get the best of open source on a managed platform. Jump T...

Danny Maertens and Scott Hanselman discuss updates made to PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell. Learn about PowerShell Core in Linux, new Azure VM remoting cmdlets, and integration with Exchange. Jump To: [00:43] Demo Start For more information:Azure Cloud Shell documentationQuickstart for PowerShell in Azure Cloud ShellAzure Cloud Shell overviewAzure Cloud Shell pricingAzure Cloud Shell updatesWhat's...

Shortly before Ignite 2018, Chacko Daniel joined Scott Hanselman to show off the effortless way to scale a service from 3 replicas/containers to 1500 in seconds using Azure Service Fabric Mesh and to talk about the mesh features in the pipeline (see: Azure Service Fabric updates at Ignite 2018).Jump To: [02:24] Demo Start For more information:Azure Service Fabric Mesh preview | Azure FridayAzure S...

Azure Data Factory enables you to do hybrid data movement from 70 plus data stores in a serverless fashion. Gaurav Malhotra and Scott Hanselman discuss how you can now parameterize your connections to data stores and pass dynamic values at run time in Azure Data Factory. For example, you may need to connect to ten different databases in your Azure SQL Server and the only difference between those t...

Miao Jiang joins Scott Hanselman discuss the API economy and how companies must master the challenges inherent in building, maintaining, managing, and exposing APIs to participate. That's where Azure API Management can help. Azure API Management is a solution for publishing APIs to external and internal consumers. With Azure API Management, you can take any backend system, hosted anywhere, and exp...

Rahul Bagaria joins Lara Rubbelke to discuss Azure Monitor, which now includes Log Analytics and Application Insights. Azure Monitor provides full stack monitoring tools for collecting and analyzing telemetry that allow you to maximize the performance and availability of your cloud and on-premises resources and applications. It helps you understand how your applications are performing and proactiv...

Alfred Sin joins Donovan Brown to discuss the Azure Serial Console, which is now generally available in all public clouds. Serial console enables you to use an interactive shell in situations where you may be unable to SSH or RDP into your VM, which make it super-easy for troubleshooting and self-serve diagnosing of your VM.Jump To: [02:12] Demo Start For more information:Virtual Machine Serial Co...

Sharad Agrawal joins Lara Rubbelke to discuss the recently announced Azure Front Door Service, which takes your application availability global and real-time while maximizing performance by connecting you to your users using Microsoft's massive global edge network. In this session, you'll learn how to set up a Front Door for your application and the performance and reliability benefits you can ach...

Andrew Mason joins Donovan Brown to introduce Data Box Gateway and Data Box Edge, two new data network transfer solutions from Azure. They both enable easy data transfer to the cloud, with Data Box Edge providing pre-processing for fast, local results or to modify the data before upload. Jump To: [01:40] Demo Start For more information:Azure Data Box docsAzure Data Box productsAzure Data Box prici...

Mathew Dickson joins Donovan Brown to discuss the Data Box family of solutions to meet the challenge of moving data to the cloud. Azure Data Box offline devices help you transfer large amounts of data to Azure when the network isn't an option. Data Box online products act as network storage gateways to intelligently manage data between your site and Azure. Jump To: [03:40] Demo Start For more info...

Julie Kohler joins Scott Hanselman and shows you how you can generate an isochrone using Azure Maps. Isochrones represent the reachable range from a given point using a set of constraints such as fuel, energy or time. These polygons can be combined with a number of features to do things like search for gas stations within a given range or find restaurants within 15 minutes given current traffic co...

Julie Kohler joins Scott Hanselman and shows you how to get the ISO country code for a provided IP address. Use this information to tailor your application to your customers' needs based on geographic location. Jump To: [02:10] Demo Start For more information, see:Route Matrix, isochrones, IP lookup, and more added to Azure Maps (blog)Azure Maps overviewAzure Maps docsAzure Maps pricingAzure Maps...

Julie Kohler joins Scott Hanselman and shows you how to execute batch geocoding calls using Azure Maps as well as how to get the polygon for a administrative area on a map. Batch geocoding enables a developer to pass up to 10k geocoding or reverse geocoding calls in a single call while Azure Maps handles the processing in the background. The polygon feature enables developers to get the boundaries...

Julie Kohler joins Scott Hanselman and shows you how to execute batch routing calls using Azure Maps as well as how to do matrix routing with a given set of origins and destinations. Batch geocoding enables developers to pass up to 1,000 routing queries with a single call while Azure Maps handles the processing in the background. For matrix routing, a developer can pass in a series of origins and...