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Looking at Azure yesterday, today, and tomorrow with Jason Zander | Azure Friday
Jason Zander, executive vice president of the Azure Team joins Scott Hanselman to celebrate the 8th anniversary of Azure Friday. In this special crossover episode with Hanselminutes, they reflect on Azure's history and Jason's career at Microsoft during that timeframe.
Datadog integration with Azure offers a seamless configuration experience | Azure Friday
Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform for large-scale applications. It encompasses infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, log management, and user-experience monitoring. Sreekanth Thirthala from Azure and Ryan MacLean from Datadog join Scott Hanselman to show how Datadog's offering in the Azure Marketplace enables you to manage Datadog in the Azure console as an integrated service.
Managing Azure from your phone with the Azure mobile app | Azure Friday
Ilse Terrazas Ortega joins Scott Hanselman to show you how to take advantage of the Azure mobile app to monitor and manage your Azure environment. From Azure alerts to Cloud Shell, this powerful tool will help you take control of your environment right from the convenience of your phone.
Building modern hybrid applications with Azure Arc and Azure Stack | Azure Friday
Thomas Maurer joins Scott Hanselman to show how developers can be more collaborative in developing, deploying, and managing applications across multiple environments and clouds. Build and deploy a truly consistent app experience everywhere in your hybrid cloud using your existing DevOps pipelines, Kubernetes manifests, and Helm Charts – as well as your choice of tools. Azure Arc is integrated with GitHub, Azure Monitor, Security Center, Update and more.
How to get better outbound connectivity using Azure NAT Gateway | Azure Friday
When your private virtual networks in Azure need to talk to the Internet, a network translation is needed for your applications to talk to endpoints on the Internet. Christian Kuhtz joins Scott Hanselman to show how it works and why Azure NAT Gateway is the best and most scalable way to do Secure Network Address Translation (SNAT). [0:00:00]– Introduction [0:02:18]– Presentation [0:06:58]– Demo [0:12:59]– Discussion [0:21:02]– Wrap-up What is Virtual Network NAT?
Operational best practices for web apps on Azure App Service | Azure Friday
Azure App Service hosts millions of apps, serves trillions of requests per day, and has an SLA of 99.95%. But what should you do when your app has issues in production? Byron Tardif joins Scott Hanselman to discuss some operational best practices for running your web apps on Azure App Service.
Zone to Zone Disaster Recovery with Azure Site Recovery | Azure Friday
With zone to zone disaster recovery, you can bring the power of Availability zones to augment your Disaster Recovery story. Siddharth Deekshit joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can now protect your Azure VMs by replicating them from one availability zone to another within the same region.
Enable unified data governance with Azure Purview | Azure Friday
Azure Purview is a unified data governance service that helps you manage and govern your on-premises, multi-cloud, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) data. Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to show how easy it is to create a holistic, up-to-date map of your data landscape with automated data discovery, sensitive data classification, and end-to-end data lineage so that you can empower your data consumers to find valuable, trustworthy data. [0:00:00]– Overview [0:01:08]– What is Azure Purview?
Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes with GitOps | Azure Friday
Lior Kamrat shows Scott Hanselman how Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes provides an easy way to apply GitOps configurations on Kubernetes clusters deployed outside of Azure, which enables you to control and govern those clusters and applications using GitHub repositories as the "single source of truth." [0:00:00]– Overview [0:02:27]– Demo kickoff [0:04:01]– Home-brewed Raspberry Pi clusters! [0:06:35]– GitOps configurations [0:08:40]– Flux, the GitOps Kubernetes operator [0:09:32]– Demo...
Implement serverless APIs with Azure Functions and Azure API Management | Azure Friday
Jeff Hollan joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can quickly deploy and manage your Serverless API's using OpenAPI and API Management.
Code to Cloud with VS Code and Docker
After a quick demo of working with Docker images in Visual Studio, Paul Yuknewicz shows Scott Hanselman how the Docker for Visual Studio Code extension makes it easy for you to build, debug, and diagnose containerized apps. Paul will also show how the extension helps you deploy a container to Azure Container Instances.
Migrate and modernize your .NET applications on Azure | Azure Friday
Azure App Service hosts over 2M web apps with a fully-managed app hosting platform for .NET, Node, Python, and Java web apps. In this episode, Gaurav Seth shows Scott Hanselman what's new in Azure App Service. Gaurav demos the new Premium V3 Plan with newer and faster hardware and lower pricing, ability to save costs with the new Reserved Instance Pricing, how to migrate ASP.NET apps with OS dependencies using Windows Containers, and briefly discusses the upcoming App Service Environment v3.
Introducing Flexible Server in Azure Database for PostgreSQL & MySQL | Azure Friday
Sunil Kamath joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how you can run your MySQL or Postgres database as a managed database on Azure without giving up the control you want while taking advantage of the benefits of a PaaS offering. [0:00:00]– Overview [0:04:44]– Demo [0:08:54]– Customizing Flexible Server in the CLI [0:10:41]– Automating deployment with GitHub Actions [0:13:15]– Stopping and starting your Flexible Server [0:14:57]– Configuration options [0:16:49]– Performance of Flexible Server vs.
Using Entity Framework Core with Azure SQL DB and Azure Cosmos DB | Azure Friday
Jeremy Likness shows Scott Hanselman how to use Entity Framework (EF) Core with Azure SQL DB and Azure Cosmos DB. EF Core is a lightweight, extensible, open source, and cross-platform version of the popular Entity Framework data access technology.
Bring compute, storage, and intelligence to the edge with Azure Stack Edge | Azure Friday
Dipti Pai joins Scott Hanselman to show how to run containerized and VM workloads to get quick, actionable insights at the edge—where data is created—using purpose-built hardware-as-a-service with Azure Stack Edge. [0:00:00]– Overview [0:00:55]– What is Azure Stack Edge? [0:04:09]– Azure Stack Edge in the house [0:06:18]– Azure Stack Edge in the Azure portal [0:09:23]– Demo [0:16:36]– Microsoft Hardware Experience app [0:18:38]– Wrap-up Azure Stack Edge What is Azure Stack Edge Pro with GPU?
Using Azure Container Registry for building and deploying .NET Core Apps | Azure Friday
You probably know that Azure Container Registry enables you to store and manage container images securely, but did you know it can also be used as a part of your DevOps pipelines? Jeremy Likness shows Scott Hanselman how ACR can manage your images and even build them for you in the cloud.
Azure Load Balancer insights using Azure Monitor for Networks | Azure Friday
Erich Robinson-Tillenburg joins Scott Hanselman to demo and explain health monitoring and configuration analysis for Azure Load Balancer using Azure Monitor for Networks, a central hub that provides access to health and connectivity monitoring for all your network resources.
Azure Container Instances (ACI) under the hood | Azure Friday
Have you ever wondered what's going on under the hood for serverless offerings like Azure Container Instances? MacKenzie Olson shows Scott Hanselman the latest innovations in the infrastructure that powers ACI and a peek at the product roadmap, including a demo of the managed identity experience coming soon.
Code to Cloud with Docker and Azure Container Instances | Azure Friday
Chad Metcalf from Docker joins Scott Hanselman to show how to use the Docker CLI to deploy a container to Azure Container Instances (ACI).
Prepare your cloud environments using Azure landing zones | Azure Friday
Brian Blanchard joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure landing zones and how you can prepare your destination Azure environment—not only to receive migrating applications, but also to balance agility, governance, and security considerations. [0:00:00]- Overview [0:00:38]- What is an Azure landing zone?
Serverless containers with Azure Container Instances (ACI) | Azure Friday
In this episode, Azure CTO Mark Russinovich joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can use Azure Container Instances (ACI) to host a containerized application. Mark deploys an image processing container in three ways: as a standalone ACI container, as part of a Logic Apps workflow, and as the backend of a web app.
Establish cloud governance using Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure | Azure Friday
Brian Blanchard joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how you can unblock your cloud adoption efforts using the Cloud Adoption Framework governance methodology. This agile, iterative methodology enables governance maturity without impeding migration or innovation. [0:00:00]- Overview [0:00:23]- What is cloud governance?
Learn how to deploy .NET Core apps to Azure with GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions makes it easy to automate all your software workflows. Tim Heuer joins Scott Hanselman to saunter through the process of deploying .NET Core apps to Azure using GitHub Actions.
Getting started as a cloud engineer with Gwyneth Peña
Azure MVP Gwyneth Peña joins Scott Hanselman to show him how she got started as a cloud engineer not only by learning by doing, but also by documenting what she was learning and sharing her journey with others.
How Azure App Configuration helps developers roll out new features
Jimmy Campbell is back to show Scott Hanselman how to use App Configuration for feature management. Traditionally, shipping a new application feature requires a complete redeployment of the application itself, and testing a feature often requires multiple deployments of the application. Now you can use feature flags in App Configuration to grant early access to new app functionality in production.
Introducing the next generation of Azure Stack HCI
Scott Hanselman sits down with Cosmos Darwin to learn about Azure Stack HCI, which is a new host operating system for hyperconverged infrastructure. Delivered as an Azure service, Azure Stack HCI provides the latest and up to date security, performance, and feature updates. To illustrate the flexibility of Azure Stack HCI, Cosmos also shows his "cluster in a wooden box" - a self-contained, battery-powered datacenter built into a custom-made wooden briefcase.
Enabling secure remote work using Windows Virtual Desktop
Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) is a comprehensive desktop and app virtualization service running in Azure to enable secure remote work. Christiaan Brinkhoff joins Scott Hanselman to show how WVD is different from other desktop virtualization technologies, as well as how easy it is to implement and maintain. Deploy and scale your Windows desktops and apps on Azure in minutes and get built-in security and compliance features.
Introducing Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions
Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions is an Azure-native monitoring solution for customers running their SAP landscapes on Azure. Syeda Persia Aziz joins Scott Hanselman to show how it collects and consolidates telemetry data from Azure infrastructure and databases at one central location, regardless of the underlying infrastructure (Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Large Instances, or both). You can then use this data to correlate telemetry visually between different components for faster troubleshooting.
How Fidelity Investments enabled Azure at scale for their developers
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.
Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) with Azure Security Center
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.
Azure Lighthouse: A unified control plane for managing Azure at scale
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. [0:02:53] - Demo Azure Lighthouse overview What is Azure Lighthouse? Azure Lighthouse docs Azure Lighthouse templates on GitHub Create a free account (Azure)
AzUrlShortener: An open source, budget-friendly URL shortener
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.
Azure HPC Cache - File caching for high-performance computing (HPC)
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 your jobs into Azure Compute.
Writing code and having fun with Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock
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 Cognitive Services (Custom Vision API).
How to choose Azure services for working with messages in your application
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. • Pluralsight course: Microsoft Azure for Developers: What to Use When (paywall)
How to choose Azure services to speed up your application
Azure MVP Barry "Azure Barry" Luijbregts joins Scott Hanselman to outline how you can choose the right Azure services to speed up your application. • Pluralsight course: Microsoft Azure for Developers: What to Use When (paywall)
Go serverless: Serverless operations with Azure DevOps
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.
Go serverless: Big data processing with Azure Event Hubs for Apache Kafka
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] - Demo Apache Kafka Applications Can Work Without an Apache Kafka Cluster?
Go serverless: Containers with Kubernetes and virtual nodes
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).
Go serverless: Event-driven applications with Azure Functions
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.
Manage and govern your hybrid servers using Azure Arc
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] - Demo Azure Arc Overview Azure Arc for servers How to add a Server to Azure Arc Azure Hybrid What is Azure Policy?
Azure Cosmos DB Free Tier and Autopilot
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.
Secure access to your API server using authorized IP ranges in AKS
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] - Demo Secure access to the API server using authorized IP address ranges in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) overview Kubernetes: Getting started Create a free account (Azure)
End-to-end IoT device security with Azure Sphere
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 available Get started with Azure Sphere The Seven Properties of Highly Secure Devices Azure Sphere overview Create a free account (Azure)
How to use Jupyter Notebooks in Azure Data Studio
Vicky Harp joins Scott Hanselman to show how Azure Data Studio combined the simple and robust SQL query editing experience of tools like SSMS with the flexibility and collaboration of Jupyter Notebooks. The November 2019 release of Azure Data Studio included SQL Server 2019 Guide as a Jupyter Book, which provides a richer troubleshooting experience.
How to use HTTP overrides on Azure CDN from Microsoft
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.
How to connect and deliver services privately on Azure with Azure Private Link
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.
Intro to Rudr: A Kubernetes Implementation of the Open Application Model
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 distributed application, and then run two instances on AKS and GKE respectively.
How to get started with Azure using Azure Quickstart Center
Azure Quickstart Center gives you Microsoft recommended best practices to set up your Azure environment and create your first cloud project with confidence. Ayesha Ghaffar joins Donovan Brown to show how to get started with Azure using Azure Quickstart Center. [0:01:22] - Demo Get started with the Azure Quickstart Center Azure Quickstart Center in the Microsoft Garage New to Azure? Follow these easy steps to get started Azure portal documentation Create a free account (Azure)
Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure, Part 2
The Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure guides customers through their cloud journey, to use and adopt cloud services with confidence and in control. In this episode, Scott Bockheim shows Lara Rubbelke the tools, templates, assessments, and resources to implement the guidance from this framework in different stages and steps of the cloud journey.
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