Azure Friday

<p>Anton Babadjanov joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the new redesigned administrative UI for API Management. Also, see how it enables a design-first approach with the ability to produce simulated (mocked) API responses. For more information, see: API Management Documentation API Management Blog Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Klaas Langhout joins Scott Hanselman to show Azure File Sync for centralizing file services into Azure, which reduces the cost and complexity of managing islands of data while preserving existing app compatibility and performance. In addition, it provides multi-site access to the same data, tiering of less frequently used data off-premise, and integrated backup and rapid restoration. For more information, see: Planning for an Azure File Sync (docs) Announcing the public preview for Azure File Sync (blog) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Christina Compy joins Scott Hanselman to talk about exposing your internet-isolated apps with an Application Gateway. This enables you to securely host multi-tier applications on an Internal Load Balancer (ILB) App Service Environment (ASE) and only expose the front-end applications that you want to expose. For more information, see: Create and use an internal load balancer with an App Service environment (docs) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @ccompy</p>

<p>Pui Chee "PC" Chan joins Scott Hanselman to discuss native support for Jenkins in Azure. Our plugins make it easy for you to build your project using a container agent and then automate deployment from Jenkins to an Azure Container Service Kubernetes cluster. For more information, see: Announcing Deploy to Kubernetes (blog) Jenkins.io links: Azure Container agent Deploy to Kubernetes Deploy to Azure Container Service Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Hariharan Jayaraman joins Scott Hanselman to talk about the Azure Instance Metadata Service, which provides information about running virtual machine instances that you can use to manage and configure your virtual machines. Use the service to get information such as SKU, network configuration, and upcoming maintenance events. For more information, see: Azure Instance Metadata service (docs) General Availability of Instance Metadata Service in Global Azure Regions (blog post) Leverage Azure instance metadata for instance bootstrap and runtime (Build 2017 session) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @hariharan_msft</p>

<p>Aaron Roney joins Scott Hanselman to check out the new Experimental cmdlets in Azure PowerShell. This new functionality comes directly from user feedback, which the Azure PowerShell team uses to provide improved functionality. Check out the new cmdlets shown here and try them yourself! For more information, see: Azure PowerShell (docs) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @twitchax</p>

<p>Christina Compy joins Scott Hanselman to talk about the recently relaunched App Service Hybrid Connections. This feature enables your apps in the App Service to reach resources on other networks. Those other networks can be in Azure, on-premises or networks in other cloud providers. For more information, see: Azure App Service Hybrid Connections (docs) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @ccompy</p>

<p>Hemant Mahawar joins Scott Hanselman to demo the PowerShell experience in Azure Cloud Shell, a browser-based shell experience hosted in the cloud. Now you have the flexibility of choosing the shell experience that best suits the way you work. Azure drive (Azure:) enables you to discover and navigate all Azure resources like file system navigation and provides contextual capabilities such as resource-group scoping for Azure PowerShell cmdlets and a context-sensitive command list. For more information, see: Azure Cloud Shell (overview) Azure Cloud Shell (docs) Announcing the public preview of PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell (blog) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @hemanmahawar</p>

<p>In this episode, Mani Ramaswamy joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Azure Service Fabric on Linux, which recently became generally available as a container orchestrator. Many premier first-party services such as Azure SQL Database, Bing, Azure Cosmos DB, and EventHubs are all running on Service Fabric on Windows, and now the same technology is being made available worldwide on Linux. For more information, see: Create Service Fabric clusters on Windows Server or Linux (docs) Announcing the general availability of Service Fabric on Linux (announcement) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Matthew Henderson does a demo for Scott Hanselman to show how simple it can be to build serverless apps that leverage bindings for Microsoft Graph (e.g., reading data from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in a OneDrive folder) to avoid writing laborious initialization and authentication code, all using Azure Functions. For more information, see: Microsoft Graph Azure Functions Azure Functions HTTP and webhook bindings Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @mattchenderson</p>

<p>Kirill Gavrylyuk shows Scott Hanselman an easy way to build planet-scale serverless apps in minutes using Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Functions. Customers expect apps to offer event-driven, near real-time experiences. Now you can subscribe to changes in Azure Cosmos DB collections and trigger logic in real time while being globally-distributed, and without deploying or managing any servers. For more information, see: Azure Functions Cosmos DB bindings (docs) Azure Cosmos DB Azure Functions Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @kirillg_msft</p>

<p>Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed database with limitless elastic scale. To take advantage of elastic scale, you first need to choose a partition key. Kirill Gavrylyuk stops by Azure Friday to talk with Scott Hanselman about the choice of partition key, and how to use the new metrics charts to troubleshoot a poor partition key choice (e.g., "hot partitions"). For more information, see: Try Azure Cosmos DB How to partition and scale in Azure Cosmos DB (docs) Monitor Azure Cosmos DB requests, usage, and storage (docs) Request Units in Azure Cosmos DB (docs) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @kirillg_msft</p>

<p>Hariharan Jayaraman joins Scott Hanselman to talk about how HashiCorp Terraform provides an easy way to define and deploy cloud infrastructure using HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL). This custom language is easy to write and easy to understand, and Hariharan gives you the steps to start using Terraform with Azure. For more information, see: Install and configure Terraform to provision VMs and other infrastructure into Azure (docs) Terraform-providers/terraform-provider-azurerm (GitHub) Microsoft Azure Provider (Terraform site) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @hariharan_msft</p>

<p>Dan Taylor joins Scott Hanselman to talk about being able to get a code-level analysis of slow requests in production using the Application Insights profiler for Azure App Service. Dan shows Scott how to use the Application Insights Profiler to quickly get to the bottom of two different performance issues in an ASP.NET Web App. For more information, see: Application Insights Overview Profiling live Azure web apps with Application Insights (docs) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @dandttaylor</p>

<p>Ziv Rafalovich joins Scott Hanselman to talk about improvements to the planned maintenance experience in Azure, including better visibility and control of maintenance events that impact virtual machine availability. Learn how to create alerts, discover which virtual machines are scheduled for maintenance, and proactively start the maintenance using the Azure portal, REST API, Azure PowerShell, or Azure CLI. Note: During September 2017, you can try the new experience by creating new VMs in the US West Central region using this special link to the Azure portal: https://aka.ms/PlannedMaintenancePreview. For more information, see: Planned maintenance for Linux virtual machines Planned maintenance for Windows virtual machines in Azure Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Dushyant Gill joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Azure Service Health. When issues in Azure services affect your business-critical resources, Azure Service Health notifies you and your teams, helps you understand the impacts of the issue, and keeps you updated as the issue is resolved. It also helps you prepare for planned maintenance and changes that could affect the availability of your resources. [01:34] - Personalizing your view of Azure Service Health [03:32] - Tracking issues and keeping your stakeholders informed [04:48] - Filter Azure Service Health issues [05:30] - Pinning filtered world maps to your dashboard [07:05] - Azure Service Health is more than just up/down status [08:05] - Setting up notifications [10:30] - Integration with PagerDuty For more information, see: Azure Service Health (overview) Azure Service Health (docs) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @dushyantgill</p>

<p>Dan Taylor joins Scott Hanselman to talk about how the Snapshot Debugger in Application Insights can help you identify the root cause of issues in your production environment without having to repro them locally. Dan shows how by adding the Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.SnapshotCollector NuGet package to your app, you can get view full-process snapshots containing local variables the moment exceptions are thrown in production. For more information, see: Application Insights Overview Debug snapshots on exceptions (docs) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @dandttaylor</p>

<p>Kirill Gavrylyuk shows Scott Hanselman a new way to try Azure Cosmos DB free of charge, no sign-up or credit card required. It's a perfect way to get to know Azure Cosmos DB better, without commitment. For more information, see: Try Cosmos DB Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @kirillg_msft</p>

<p>Evgeny Ternovsky joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Azure Log Analytics and its upgraded search platform, including a dedicated query experience and a powerful new query language. Already available in Application Insights, this upgrade unifies the analytics experience across Azure. For more information, see: What is Log Analytics (documentation) Analytics Query Language (documentation) Announcing the New and Improved Azure Log Analytics (blog) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Apurva Joshi (AJ) joins Scott Hanselman to talk about App Service providing built-in image support to ASP.NET Core, Node.js, PHP, and Ruby on Linux, as well as by enabling web developers to bring their own Docker-formatted container images, which in turn supports languages like Java, Python, Go, and more. For more information, see: Web App on Linux Documentation (docs) See what's new for Azure App Service - Web App on Linux (Preview) (blog) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @apurvajo</p>

<p>Mark Scurrell joins Scott Hanselman to talk about low-priority virtual machines (VMs) from Azure Batch, which you can use to reduce the cost of Batch workloads. Low-priority VMs make new types of Batch workloads possible by providing a large amount of compute power that is also economical, taking advantage of surplus capacity in Azure when it's available. When you specify low-priority VMs in your pools, Azure Batch can automatically use this surplus when available. For more information, see: Azure Batch (overview) Compare Batch pricing with low-priority VMs Use low-priority VMs with Batch (docs) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @mscurrell</p>

<p>Kelly Anderson joins Scott Hanselman to show how Azure Site Recovery can help save the day to keep your applications available in the event of a disaster. For more information, see: Azure Site Recovery (overview) Azure Site Recovery (docs) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Sean McKenna drops by Azure Friday to discuss and demo Cloud Foundry, an open-source cloud application platform following the recent announcement that Microsoft has joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation. Pivotal Cloud Foundry is available in the Azure Marketplace for ease of deployment on Azure. Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @seanmckmsft</p>

<p>Niraj Gandhi joins Scott Hanselman to discuss and demonstrate Azure Managed Applications. Managed service providers (MSPs), ISVs, and corporate IT teams can create managed applications to deliver solutions through the Azure Marketplace or the Service Catalog. Because the publisher manages and supports the applications, those who deploy them don't have to develop the additional expertise to maintain, update, or service them. For more information, see: Azure Managed Applications (blog) Azure managed applications overview (docs) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @helloniraj</p>

<p>Leon Welicki wows Scott Hanselman with recent updates to the Azure Portal, including new usability features, how you can preview new portal features, keyboard shortcuts, improved filtering, bulk actions, accessibility, portal-wide search, dashboard customization, and more. For more information, see: Azure portal (Preview) Microsoft Azure portal Microsoft Azure portal overview Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @LWelicki</p>

<p>Manling Zhang joins Scott Hanselman to talk about how to optimize content delivery with Azure CDN for various customer scenarios, such as general web delivery, large file download, and media streaming. With one little hint from customer about the scenario, Azure CDN will apply the a set of default optimizations in the backend which provides optimal performance of content delivery. For more information, see: Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) Azure CDN docs Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Manling Zhang joins Scott Hanselman to demo the recent integration of CDN into Azure Web App, Storage and Media Services portal experience. Enabling and managing a CDN for these services is extremely simple with a few clicks and without leaving the portal. For more information, see: Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) Azure CDN docs Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Bahram Banisadr introduces Scott Hanselman to Azure Event Grid, which is a fully-managed event service for managing events across many different Azure services and applications. Made for performance and scale, it simplifies building event-driven applications and serverless architectures. For more information, see: Azure Event Grid: An Event Grid for Modern Applications (blog) Azure Event Grid (product overview) Azure Event Grid (documentation) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @BAHRAwesoMe</p>

<p>Matt Nielson joins Donovan Brown to show off a preview of App Service Domain, which gives you a first-class experience in the Azure portal to create and manage domains that will be hosted on Azure DNS for your Azure services such as Web Apps, Traffic Manager, Virtual Machines, and more. For more information, see: Announcing the preview of App Service domain (blog) Buy a custom domain name for Azure Web Apps (docs) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @DonovanBrown Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Aravind Krishna shows Scott Hanselman how to get started with the Table API for Azure Cosmos DB, the globally distributed multi-model database. Using the API, applications running on Azure Table storage can take advantage of secondary indexes, turnkey global distribution, dedicated throughput, and single digit millisecond latency with 99.99% comprehensive SLAs. For more information, see: Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB: Table API Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @arkramac</p>

<p>Kirill Gavrylyuk talks Azure Cosmos DB and Graphs with Scott, exploring why we need graphs, and what we can we do with graphs on Azure Cosmos DB. Azure Cosmos DB offers native graph gremlin API support in addition MongoDB, SQL, and others. Graphs in Azure Cosmos DB also enjoy the same global distribution, low latency, limitless throughput, and 99.99% SLAs as other APIs. For more information, see: Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB: Graph API Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @kirillg_msft</p>

<p>Justin Luk joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the Azure Cloud Shell, a browser-based shell experience hosted in the cloud. With Cloud Shell's built-in authentication and pre-installed tools, getting work done on Azure has never been easier. For more information, see: Azure Cloud Shell (docs) Azure Cloud Shell (overview) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @whosjluk</p>

<p>Brendan Burns joins Donovan Brown to discuss the use of Kubernetes with Azure Container Instances. The Azure Container Instances Connector for Kubernetes allows Kubernetes clusters to deploy Azure Container Instances, which enables on-demand and nearly instantaneous container compute, orchestrated by Kubernetes, without having VM infrastructure to manage and while still leveraging the portable Kubernetes API. See also: Azure Container Instances with Sean McKenna on Azure Friday For more information, see: Azure Container Instances (Overview) Azure Container Instances (Documentation) Azure Container Instances (Pricing) Fast and Easy Containers: Azure Container Instances (Azure Blog) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @DonovanBrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @BrendanBurns</p>

<p>Sean McKenna joins Donovan Brown to talk about the newest service in Azure, Azure Container Instances. Azure Container Instances makes it possible to run Linux and Windows containers directly on Azure infrastructure, without setting up and managing VMs and without adopting a higher-level service. See how easy it is to create and manage containers with the Azure CLI and the Azure portal, and learn how Azure Container Instances relates to container orchestrators, such as Kubernetes. See also: Using Kubernetes with Azure Container Instances with Brendan Burns on Azure Friday For more information, see: Azure Container Instances (Overview) Azure Container Instances (Docs) Azure Container Instances (Pricing) Fast and Easy Containers: Azure Container Instances (Azure Blog) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @DonovanBrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @SeanMcKMSFT</p>

<p>Eric Radzikowski joins Scott Hanselman on Azure Friday to discuss how developers can increase application availability by using Azure Scheduled Events to prepare for virtual machine maintenance. Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @EricRadzikowski</p>

<p>You love App Service, but you need to run your apps securely inside of an Azure Virtual Network. Plus having a little (or a lot) more horsepower would be nice, too. Stefan Schackow joins Scott Hanselman for a whirlwind tour of the new Isolated App Service offering: D-Seriesv2 workers running App Service all inside the secure “moat” of your Azure virtual network. For more information, see Introduction to App Service Environment. Create a Free Account (Azure)</p>

<p>Josh Caplan, a Sr. Program Manager from the Azure Analysis Services team, joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can get started using Azure Analysis Services with Azure SQL DB and Data Warehouse. It includes how to build your first data model and how to use Analysis Services to benefit your users. Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @azurefriday Follow @JoshCaplan1984</p>

<p>Matt Reat gives Scott Hanselman an overview of the new Network Watcher service and some of its features. Azure Network Watcher is Network Monitoring and Diagnostic service that recently became generally available in Azure Public Clouds. With Network Watcher you can understand your network's topology, diagnose networking issues, run packet captures, and much more. For more information, see: Azure Network Watcher Azure Network Watcher Documentation Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Michael Flanakin joins Scott Hanselman to show how the Azure mobile app keeps you connected to your Azure resources anytime, anywhere. Check status, metrics, and important metadata or get the latest service health and metric alerts. The app is there when you need it and helps you resolve common issues and perform simple tasks when away from a computer. For more information, see: Azure Blog: Introducing the Azure app public preview Azure Mobile App Also, be sure to watch: Azure Mobile App - Under the Hood Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @flanakin Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Jakub Jedryszek joins Scott Hanselman to show how the Azure mobile app is built. From benefits of Xamarin Native, through Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery with VSTS and HockeyApp, to tips and tricks for writing UI tests with Xamarin Test Cloud. For more information, see: Under the hood of the Azure Mobile App Azure Blog: Introducing the Azure app public preview Azure Mobile App Also, be sure to watch: Azure Mobile App Overview Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @JakubJedryszek Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Saloni Sonpal joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the newest offering of the Azure Database family – Azure Database for PostgreSQL, which provides a managed database service for app development and deployment with a Postgres database that has built-in high availability, automatic patching, security, automated backups, monitoring, scales on the fly, and more. For more information, see Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Follow @SHanselman Follow @SaloniSonpal Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Jason Anderson joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the newest offering of the Azure Database family – Azure Database for MySQL. With built-in high availability, scalability, and flexible pricing options, there's no excuse to be running MySQL in a VM anymore. For more information, see: Azure Database for MySQL Azure Blog: Announcing Azure Database for MySQL Public Preview Follow @SHanselman Follow @JasonMA_MSFT Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Olivier Martin joins Scott Hanselman to talk about the concept of Virtual Data Centers, which is at the heart of what Azure's software-defined networking stack enables you to do with a combination of vNet Peering, hybrid connectivity, and centralized infrastructure in hub & spoke topologies. Link: /azure/networking/networking-virtual-datacenter Follow @SHanselman Follow @OMartin_2010 Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>In this episode of Azure Friday, Olivier Martin joins Scott Hanselman for the second of a two-part series on hybrid networking in Azure, which is key to connecting existing customer infrastructure into an Azure Virtual Network (vNet). In this episode, Olivier explains ExpressRoute peerings and describes the process for getting an ExpressRoute circuit to work for you. For more information, see: Networking to and within the Azure Cloud, part 1 Networking to and within the Azure Cloud, part 2 Networking to and within the Azure Cloud, part 3 Part One: Azure Hybrid Networking 101. Follow @SHanselman Follow @OMartin_2010 Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>In this episode of Azure Friday, Olivier Martin joins Scott Hanselman for the first of a two-part series on hybrid networking in Azure, which is key to connecting existing customer infrastructure into an Azure Virtual Network (vNet). In this episode, Olivier covers the different connection options (VPN and ExpressRoute) and provides a brief overview of what they are, connectivity models, partner solutions, and an overview of ExpressRoute peerings. For more information, see: Networking to and within the Azure Cloud, part 1 Networking to and within the Azure Cloud, part 2 Networking to and within the Azure Cloud, part 3 Part Two: Azure Hybrid Networking 201 Follow @SHanselman Follow @OMartin_2010 Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Manling Zhang joins Scott Hanselman to show off HTTPS support for Azure CDN custom domains, which enables you to deliver secure content via SSL using your own domain name to improve the security of data while in transit. The end-to-end workflow to enable HTTPS for your custom domain is simplified via one-click enablement, complete certificate management, and all with no additional cost. Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Aaron Roney saves Scott Hanselman the trouble of installing Azure CLI 2.0 prerequisites by setting him up with a pre-built Docker image. Azure CLI 2.0 is the cross-platform command-line tool for managing Azure resources, which is written in Python, updated every two weeks, and is available as open source on GitHub (Azure/azure-cli). Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @twitchax</p>

<p>Aaron Roney joins Scott Hanselman to show off creating a SQL database in Azure from the command line using Azure CLI 2.0. Azure CLI 2.0 is the cross-platform command-line tool for managing Azure resources, which is written in Python, updated every two weeks, and is available as open source on GitHub (Azure/azure-cli). Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @twitchax</p>

<p>Aaron Roney joins Scott Hanselman to show off building and deploying a web app to Azure from the command line using Azure CLI 2.0 and Git. Azure CLI 2.0 is the cross-platform command-line tool for managing Azure resources, which is written in Python, updated every two weeks, and is available as open source on GitHub (Azure/azure-cli). Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @twitchax</p>