Azure Friday

Maintaining an elevated level of security and governance in regulated industries like financial services can introduce complexity and friction. Geoff Langfield from Fidelity Investments joins Scott Hanselman to show how they're eliminating this friction by using automation to onboard their large developer community to Azure at scale.[0:00:00]- Intro[0:00:40]- Episode start[0:03:47]- Demo: Fidelity...

Azure Security Center enables you to strengthen your security posture. Yuri Diogenes joins Scott Hanselman to show how Security Center helps you identify and perform the hardening tasks recommended as security best practices and implement them across your machines, data services, and apps.[0:00:00]- Intro[0:00:24]- Episode start[0:04:41]- Demo: Security Center dashboard[0:05:20]- Demo: Security re...

Archana Balakrishnan joins Scott Hanselman to show how Azure Lighthouse can manage thousands of customers and millions of resources from a unified control plane. Azure Lighthouse helps deliver managed services with comprehensive and robust management tooling available in Azure.[0:00:00]- Intro[0:00:23]- Episode start[0:02:53]- Demo[0:11:27]- Final Q&AAzure Lighthouse overviewWhat is Azure Ligh...

AzUrlShortener is an open source, budget-friendly URL shortener you can deploy directly from GitHub with one click into your Azure subscription. In this episode, Frank Boucher joins Scott Hanselman to explain how to get it, why it's inexpensive, and explores the source code.[0:01:34] - DemoFBoucher/AzUrlShortener GitHub projectAzUrlShortener: How It WorksAzure Functions overviewTable storage overv...

Scott Jeschonek joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Azure HPC Cache. Whether you are rendering a movie scene, searching for variants in a genome, or running machine learning against a data set, HPC Cache can provide very low latency high throughput access to the required file data. Even more, your data can remain on its Network Attached Storage (NAS) environment in your data center while you drive...

Isaac Levin joins Scott Hanselman to talk about building highly scalable applications and having fun with the Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock sample application. Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock is a multi-language application built with Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, deployed with GitHub Actions and running on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). It also uses Machine Learning and Azure...

Azure MVP Barry "Azure Barry" Luijbregts joins Scott Hanselman to outline how you can choose the right services for working with messages and events in your application.[0:00:48] - PresentationAzure servicesPluralsight course: Microsoft Azure for Developers: What to Use When (paywall)Azure Queue StorageAzure Service BusAzure Notification HubsAzure Event GridAzure Event HubsAzure IoT HubA...

Azure MVP Barry "Azure Barry" Luijbregts joins Scott Hanselman to outline how you can choose the right Azure services to speed up your application.[0:01:00] - PresentationAzure servicesPluralsight course: Microsoft Azure for Developers: What to Use When (paywall)Azure CDNAzure Cache for RedisAzure Traffic ManagerAzure Front DoorCreate a free account (Azure)

Abel Wang joins Donovan Brown to show how to use Azure Pipelines to build and deploy apps for Azure Functions, App Service and even Kubernetes Clusters.[0:00:45] - DemoBuild and deploy Java to Azure FunctionsDeploy a Docker container app to Azure Kubernetes ServiceDeploy a web app to Azure App ServicesAzure DevOps overviewCreate a free account (Azure)

Working with Apache Kafka and want to simplify management of your infrastructure? Lena Hall joins Scott Hanselman to show you can keep using Apache Kafka libraries for hundreds of projects, and try Azure Event Hubs behind the scenes to focus on code instead of maintaining infrastructure.[0:04:44] - DemoApache Kafka Applications Can Work Without an Apache Kafka Cluster? Quickstart: Create an event...

Modern applications light up with real-time information. Anthony Chu joins Donovan Brown to show how to deliver live updates from Azure Functions to web, mobile, and desktop apps with Azure SignalR Service. Learn how to send real-time messages over WebSockets from your serverless apps with a few lines of code.[0:03:00] - DemoBuild real-time Apps with Azure Functions and Azure SignalR ServiceSignal...

Jeremy Likness joins Scott Hanselman to show how to build workflows and integrations from the cloud across third-party services and on-premises servers using Azure Logic Apps.[0:01:10] - DemoOverview - What is Azure Logic Apps? Azure Logic AppsDEV50: Investing in Serverless: Less Servers, More Code. Create a free account (Azure)

Think serverless is just for functions? Think again! Brendan Burns joins Donovan Brown to look at how serverless containers can provide a cloud-native container experience without the worry of a server or operating system. They also look at how this integrates with the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).[0:03:25] - DemoCreate and configure an Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) cluster to use virtual node...

Jeff Hollan joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can quickly develop and deploy code to run in the cloud with Azure Functions. Functions can be written in a variety of languages, and will automatically trigger and scale based on your application needs.[0:01:53] - DemoQuickstart: Create your first function in Azure using Visual StudioTutorial: Create and deploy serverless Azure Functions in Python...

Thomas Maurer joins Donovan Brown to show how you can manage and govern your Windows and Linux machines hosted outside of Azure on your corporate network or other cloud provider, similarly to how you manage native Azure virtual machines. When a hybrid machine is connected to Azure, it becomes a connected machine and is treated as a resource in Azure.[0:01:37] - DemoAzure Arc OverviewAzure Arc for...

Kirill Gavrylyuk joins Scott Hanselman to go over two important updates to Azure Cosmos DB: Free Tier and Autopilot. Free Tier enables you to run small applications using Azure Cosmos DB free of charge for as long as you like. Autopilot enables developers to only pay for the Azure Cosmos DB usage they need and not worry about predicting throughput.[0:02:10] - Autopilot mode demo[0:09:48] - Free Ti...

In Kubernetes, the API server is the central way to interact and manage the cluster. To improve cluster security in Azure Kubernetes Server, Ruchika Gupta shows Scott Hanselman how you can restrict access to the API server to a limited set of IP address ranges.[0:02:23] - DemoSecure access to the API server using authorized IP address ranges in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)Azure Kubernetes Servic...

Caitie McCaffrey joins Scott Hanselman to give a detailed overview of Azure Sphere, including how the hardware, operating system, and cloud-based security service work together to deliver end-to-end security for IoT devices. Azure Sphere is now generally available. A secure foundation for IoT, Azure Sphere now generally availableGet started with Azure SphereThe Seven Properties of Highly Secure De...

Cassie Condon joined Scott Hanselman at Ignite 2019 to talk about the new investments, capabilities, and form factors for the Azure Stack portfolio that ensure our edge infrastructure fits seamlessly in our customers' solutions. Azure Stack is now a portfolio of products consisting of Azure Stack HCI, Azure Stack Hub (previously Azure Stack), and Azure Stack Edge (previously Azure Data Box Edge)....

Sohamn Chatterjee joins Scott Hanselman to show how to customize HTTP requests including header override, URL redirects/rewrites, and change caching policies using the rules engine for Azure CDN from Microsoft. You can add combinations of match conditions and actions per rule to do complex HTTP overrides at the CDN edge network, which improves overall performance and reduces costs at the origin.[0...

Shantanu Srivastava joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can manage platform updates, that don't require a reboot, using Maintenance Control. Azure frequently updates its infrastructure to improve reliability, performance, security or launch new features. Most updates are transparent to users. Some sensitive workloads, like gaming, media streaming, and financial transactions, can't tolerate even...

Narayan Anamalai joins Donovan Brown to introduce Azure Private Link. In this episode, Narayan demonstrates how you can secure Azure PaaS resources and your Azure network using Private Link, and provide protection against data exfiltration.[0:08:45] - DemoAzure Private Link overviewAzure Private Link documentationWhat is Azure Private Endpoint? Create a free account (Azure)

Curious to see the Open Application Model (OAM) in action? Look no further than Rudr - the Kubernetes reference implementation of OAM. In this episode, Mackenzie Olson and Sudhanva Huruli join Donovan Brown to demo how Rudr provides clear separation of concerns for DevOps practices for application developers, application operators, and infrastructure operators. With Rudr, we describe our distribut...

Mackenzie Olson and Sudhanva Huruli join Donovan Brown to cover the core concepts of the Open Application Model (OAM). OAM is a platform-agnostic open source specification that defines cloud native applications built and maintained by some of the largest teams at Microsoft and Alibaba Cloud. OAM is designed to facilitate how distributed applications can be composed and then successfully handed off...

The all-new API Management developer portal lets you effortlessly publish your APIs. It's customizable, lightweight, and intuitive. Mike Budzynski joins Scott Hanselman to show how to publish your APIs with the new developer portal in Azure API Management.[0:03:30] - DemoAzure API Management resourcesAzure/api-management-developer-portal (GitHub repo)Azure API Management developer portal overviewT...