by Sujit D'Mello
October 6, 2016
We have a bit of a geek-out with one of our listeners, Mattias Karlsson, about a topic that he's very passionate about - Kudu. He tells us why this is an indispensable tool when it comes to Azure App service and can also be used on-premises!
Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode147.mp3
Twitter is the best option to find Mattias
https://twitter.com/devlead
And the company he's a partner and sr. architect at is WCOM and is found here:
http://www.wcom.se
Kudu is found here on GitHub:
https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu
Other updates:
• General Purpose Instances: Prices of our Dv2 series VMs will be reduced by up to 15%. We are also lowering prices of our A1 and A2 Basic VMs by up to 50%.
• Compute Optimized Instances: Prices of our F series will be reduced up to 11%.
• Av2 series: In November 2016, we will introduce new A series virtual machines (Av2), with prices up to 36% lower than the A series Standard VM prices available today.
From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-lower-azure-pricing/?WT.mc_id=azurebg_email_Trans_1203_New_Lower_Azure_Pricing>
OMS TECH Fridays - Fall 2016 season
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/oms-tech-friday-skype-sessions-2/
Azure DocumentDB SDK updates include Python 3 support
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-documentdb-sdk-updates-include-python-3-support/
Azure IoT loves Open Source
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-iot-loves-open-source/
Real-Time Feature Engineering for Machine Learning with DocumentDB
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/real-time-feature-engineering-for-machine-learning-with-documentdb/
Microsoft Cloud coming to France
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-cloud-coming-to-france/
Required practice for applications integrating with Azure Active Directory
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/required-practice-for-applications-integrating-with-azure-active-directory/
by Sujit D'Mello
September 29, 2016
Cale, Evan, Russell and Sujit have an in-depth talk with Rasmus Hald, a Technical Evangelist from Microsoft Denmark about a topic that is near and dear to him : Treating deployments as code.
He walks us through the 5 steps we can take to better manage our deployments in Azure:
- Source Controlled
- In code (Scripts & Templates)
- Automated & Continuous Deployment
- Testing
- Feedback loop (Monitoring)
Link to his GitHub Repo: https://github.com/rasmushald/BrickOps
Reach out to him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RasmusHaldDK
Media file:
http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode146.mp3
Other updates: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/campaigns/ignite-2016/
by Cale Teeter
September 22, 2016
by Evan Basalik
September 16, 2016
by Sujit D'Mello
September 11, 2016
by Sujit D'Mello
September 1, 2016
by Sujit D'Mello
August 24, 2016
by Evan Basalik
August 19, 2016
by Sujit D'Mello
August 11, 2016
by Sujit D'Mello
August 4, 2016
We talk to Bill Zack and Jesse Drugan from Blue Chip Consulting. They give us the lowdown on StorSimple and how companies can take advantage of this Azure appliance/service.
Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode138.mp3
www.bluechip-llc.com
Other updates:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-azure-active-directory-b2c/
Azure Security Center generally available
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/security-center
Microsoft Authenticator generally available
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2016/07/25/microsoft-authenticator-coming-august-15th
Azure in-place virtual machine migration eliminates virtual machine reboots during critical security updates for Host OS
We continue to add new platform reliability and availability features to our infrastructure to ensure customers have the best experience. While critical Host OS security updates previously caused a reboot, most virtual machines now benefit from Azure in-place virtual machine migration that only pauses them for up to 30 seconds, while the local temporary disk and memory state are preserved. Your virtual machines already benefit from this capability for certain critical security updates and, with an upcoming platform update later in 2016, we’ll eliminate the need for virtual machine reboot for most Host OS patches. Our goal is to eliminate the need for virtual machine reboots for all Host OS updates.