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 @...
Aug 10, 2017
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
Aug 07, 2017
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 informat...
Aug 03, 2017
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: Usin...
Aug 03, 2017
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
Jul 27, 2017
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)
Jul 25, 2017
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
Jul 20, 2017
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 ...
Jul 14, 2017
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...
Jul 06, 2017
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...
Jul 06, 2017
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
Jun 29, 2017
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
Jun 16, 2017
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
Jun 08, 2017
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 Netwo...
Jun 01, 2017
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 wit...
May 26, 2017
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
May 18, 2017
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
May 12, 2017
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
May 11, 2017
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
May 10, 2017
In this episode of Azure Friday, Steve Michelotti talks with Scott Hanselman about Azure Government, which provides a separate physical and network-isolated instance of Azure for federal, state, and local governments with a higher level of compliance for US Government workloads. Steve shows how easy it is to get connected and get started with Azure Government. Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday
May 04, 2017
Duke Kamstra joins Scott Hanselman to demo the new Azure Monitor Notification features. Duke shows how you can receive alerts via SMS, email, or a WebHook when Azure is experiencing an incident or when something is logged to your Activity Logs.
Apr 27, 2017
Vybava Ramadoss joins Scott Hanselman to share the new interactive experience for the Azure Marketplace, which makes it easier to navigate the product catalog and find the right solution for your cloud application. Marketplace provides a rich catalog of thousands of products and solutions that range from open source and community software to enterprise applications that have been certified and optimized to run on Azure.
Apr 21, 2017
Anthony Howe joins Scott Hanselman to talk about and demo Helm in Azure Container Service, which is a package manager for Kubernetes that enables the community to share best practices for installing distributed applications, such as from KubeApps.
Apr 06, 2017
Steve Lasker joins Scott Hanselman to demo & discuss Azure Container Registry, which was in preview since November 2016. Since then, we have received a lot of valuable feedback from customers that we've worked to incorporate, which enables us to move Azure Container Registry to GA.
Apr 06, 2017
John Kemnetz joins Scott Hanselman to show how to unlock the power of Azure monitoring data with Azure Monitor. Azure Monitor is the built-in platform monitoring service that provides a single pipeline for monitoring and diagnostics data across all Azure services, enabling you to monitor, diagnose, and get alerts & notifications of problems in your cloud infrastructure.
Mar 31, 2017
In this episode of Azure Friday, Aaron Roney joins Scott Hanselman to demo and discuss Azure CLI 2.0, Azure's new command-line experience for managing Azure resources. It can be used on macOS, Linux, and Windows. Azure CLI 2.0 is optimized for managing and administering Azure resources from the command line, and for building automation scripts that work against the Azure Resource Manager.
Mar 02, 2017
Arun Chandrasekhar, Program Manager for Azure DevOps OSS, shows Donovan Brown how to continuously deploy containers using the Azure Spinnaker to Kubernetes QuickStart Template (https://aka.ms/azk8sdeploy).
Feb 23, 2017
Arun Chandrasekhar, Program Manager for Azure DevOps OSS, stops by Azure Friday to talk with Donovan Brown about Spinnaker, a continuous delivery platform from Netflix OSS. Arun shows how using Azure QuickStart template (https://aka.ms/azspinnaker) makes this quick and easy.
Feb 22, 2017
Arun Chandrasekhar, Program Manager for Azure DevOps OSS, returns to Azure Friday to talk with Donovan Brown about how to use Azure for CI with Jenkins. Arun talks about the new Azure VM Agents plugin (https://aka.ms/azjenkinsagents) his team has contributed so as to make this simple and scalable.
Feb 15, 2017
Arun Chandrasekhar, Program Manager for Azure DevOps OSS, stops by Azure Friday to talk with Donovan Brown. They discuss how best to host Jenkins on Azure. Arun demos how using an Azure QuickStart template makes this quick and easy.
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