Steve Lasker joins Scott Hanselman to talk about best practices for Docker image tagging, and the tradeoffs between stable and unique tagging techniques.Jump To; [05:10] Demo Start Docker Tagging Best PracticesAzure Container RegistryACR TasksACR PresentationsKubernetes objects on Microsoft AzureACR Helm RepositoriesCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @SteveLasker
Dec 07, 2018
The API Management consumption tier fills helps round out the Azure serverless offering with Azure API Management for serverless applications. In this episode, Mike Budzynski join Scott Hanselman to explain the serverless properties of the new tier and demonstrate how to build a highly scalable serverless application with Function Apps and expose it with API Management.Jump To: [02:49] Demo Start API Management documentationAPI Management overviewAPI Management pricingAPI Management roadmapCreat...
Dec 04, 2018
Steve Lasker joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Azure Container Registry (ACR) Tasks and how you can build your container images in Azure for the three phases of development: pre-commit, team commits, and post-development for OS & Framework Patching.Jump To: [01:03] Demo Start For more information:Azure Container Registry (ACR) overviewACR TasksACR PresentationsCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @SteveLasker
Dec 01, 2018
Maxim Lukiyanov and Scott Hanselman discuss intricate ways in which Apache Spark jobs can fail in production and how new diagnostics tools, now available in Azure HDInsight, visualize these problems in a new intuitive way and help discover and understand them from the first glance.Jump To: [04:13] Demo Start For more information:Spark Debugging and Diagnostics Toolset for Azure HDInsight (blog post)Apache Spark for Azure HDInsight overviewCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @A...
Nov 16, 2018
Scott Jeschonek joins Azure Friday and Lara Rubbelke to introduce Avere vFXT for Azure, a new Azure Marketplace product with big possibilities for high-performance computing (HPC) environments. Avere vFXT for Azure solves the core issue of running performance-demanding workloads that require NFS backends in the cloud, leveraging either on-premises storage or Azure Blob, without the expected latency or storage bottlenecks inherent to read-heavy processing.Jump To: [09:25] Demo Start For more info...
Nov 16, 2018
Modern games require more powerful development tools, global and flexible multiplayer support, and new revenue models. PlayFab is a complete back-end platform for live games and a powerful way for independent studios to get started. Boost revenue, engagement, and retention—while cutting costs—with game services, real-time analytics, and LiveOps.Jump To: [02:00] Demo Start For more information:PlayFab overviewPlayFab documentationPlayFab pricingAzure Gaming - Cloud Game DevelopmentCreate a free a...
Nov 09, 2018
Page Bowers and Donovan Brown discuss how SAP customers are moving to Azure to take advantage of SAP-certified HANA virtual machines such as Azure M-series. Learn how you can use Terraform and Ansible to speed up SAP HANA deployments on Azure in 30 minutes as opposed to hours or days.Jump To: [01:48] Demo Start For more information:Automated SAP Deployments in Azure Cloud (GitHub)SAP on AzureAutomating SAP deployments in Microsoft Azure using Terraform and Ansible (blog post)Create a free accoun...
Nov 07, 2018
Shubha Vijayasarathy joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Event Hubs, which makes data ingestion simple, secure, and scalable. As a distributed streaming platform, Event Hubs enables you to stream your data from any source—storing and processing millions of events per second— so you can build dynamic data pipelines and respond to business challenges in real time.With Azure Event Hubs for Apache Kafka, we're bringing together two powerful distributed streaming platforms, so you can access the b...
Nov 07, 2018
Yashesvi Sharma joins Scott Hanselman to discuss reserved virtual machine instances and how the reservation you buy can apply to other virtual machines (VMs) sizes in the same size series group. This ensures that you maximize your discounts and make reservation management easier. Also, you can now save even more by purchasing reservations for SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB, and SUSE Linux usage on Azure.Jump To: [02:24] Demo Start For more information:What are Azure Reservations?Virtual machine s...
Nov 02, 2018
Gaurav Malhotra and Scott Hanselman discuss how you can now share a self-hosted Integration Runtime (IR) across multiple data factories and consolidate on a single, highly available, multi-node (up to 4 nodes) self-hosted IR infrastructure. Doing so removes the need for separate, self-hosted IRs per project/data factory making it more manageable for the IT/DevOps team.Jump To: [03:05] Demo Start For more information:Sharing the self-hosted integration runtime with multiple data factories (docs)S...
Nov 02, 2018
Dhruv Goel and Scott Hanselman discuss why enterprise customers trust Apache Kafka on Azure HDInsight with their streaming ingestion needs. Get even more control over the security of your data at rest with Bring-Your-Own-Key encryption for Kafka. With Azure HDInsight, you get the best of open source and the security and reliability of a managed platform.Jump To: [06:57] Demo Start For more information:Bring your own key for Apache Kafka on Azure HDInsight (Preview)Azure HDInsight - Hadoop, Spark...
Oct 26, 2018
Dhruv Goel and Scott Hanselman discuss why enterprise customers trust Apache Kafka on Azure HDInsight with their streaming ingestion needs. Integrate Kafka with Azure Active Directory for authentication and set up fine-grained access control with Apache Ranger to let multiple users access Kafka easily and securely. With Azure HDInsight, you get the best of open source on a managed platform.Jump To: [04:45] Demo Start For more information, see:Tutorial: Configure Kafka policies in HDInsight with ...
Oct 26, 2018
Danny Maertens and Scott Hanselman discuss updates made to PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell. Learn about PowerShell Core in Linux, new Azure VM remoting cmdlets, and integration with Exchange.Jump To: [00:43] Demo Start For more information:Azure Cloud Shell documentationQuickstart for PowerShell in Azure Cloud ShellAzure Cloud Shell overviewAzure Cloud Shell pricingAzure Cloud Shell updatesWhat's new in PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell (blog post)Create a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Fo...
Oct 25, 2018
Shortly before Ignite 2018, Chacko Daniel joined Scott Hanselman to show off the effortless way to scale a service from 3 replicas/containers to 1500 in seconds using Azure Service Fabric Mesh and to talk about the mesh features in the pipeline (see: Azure Service Fabric updates at Ignite 2018).Jump To: [02:24] Demo Start For more information:Azure Service Fabric Mesh preview | Azure FridayAzure Service Fabric Mesh documentationAzure Service Fabric Mesh samplesAzure Service Fabric overviewAzure ...
Oct 19, 2018
Azure Data Factory enables you to do hybrid data movement from 70 plus data stores in a serverless fashion. Gaurav Malhotra and Scott Hanselman discuss how you can now parameterize your connections to data stores and pass dynamic values at run time in Azure Data Factory. For example, you may need to connect to ten different databases in your Azure SQL Server and the only difference between those ten databases is the database name.Jump To: [02:26] Demo Start Parameterize linked services in Azure ...
Oct 19, 2018
Miao Jiang joins Scott Hanselman discuss the API economy and how companies must master the challenges inherent in building, maintaining, managing, and exposing APIs to participate. That's where Azure API Management can help. Azure API Management is a solution for publishing APIs to external and internal consumers. With Azure API Management, you can take any backend system, hosted anywhere, and expose it through a modern API gateway. Join us to learn about new features and how to expose your APIs...
Oct 11, 2018
Rahul Bagaria joins Lara Rubbelke to discuss Azure Monitor, which now includes Log Analytics and Application Insights. Azure Monitor provides full stack monitoring tools for collecting and analyzing telemetry that allow you to maximize the performance and availability of your cloud and on-premises resources and applications. It helps you understand how your applications are performing and proactively identifies issues affecting them and the resources they depend on.Jump To: [02:28] Demo Start Fo...
Oct 04, 2018
Alfred Sin joins Donovan Brown to discuss the Azure Serial Console, which is now generally available in all public clouds. Serial console enables you to use an interactive shell in situations where you may be unable to SSH or RDP into your VM, which make it super-easy for troubleshooting and self-serve diagnosing of your VM.Jump To: [02:12] Demo Start For more information:Virtual Machine Serial Console for Windows VMs docsVirtual Machine Serial Console for Linux VMs docsCreate a free account (Az...
Sep 26, 2018
Sharad Agrawal joins Lara Rubbelke to discuss the recently announced Azure Front Door Service, which takes your application availability global and real-time while maximizing performance by connecting you to your users using Microsoft's massive global edge network. In this session, you'll learn how to set up a Front Door for your application and the performance and reliability benefits you can achieve.Jump To: [05:50] Demo Start For more information:In-portal getting started experienceAzure Fron...
Sep 24, 2018
Andrew Mason joins Donovan Brown to introduce Data Box Gateway and Data Box Edge, two new data network transfer solutions from Azure. They both enable easy data transfer to the cloud, with Data Box Edge providing pre-processing for fast, local results or to modify the data before upload.Jump To: [01:40] Demo Start For more information:Azure Data Box docsAzure Data Box productsAzure Data Box pricingCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @donovanbrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @Azure
Sep 24, 2018
Mathew Dickson joins Donovan Brown to discuss the Data Box family of solutions to meet the challenge of moving data to the cloud. Azure Data Box offline devices help you transfer large amounts of data to Azure when the network isn't an option. Data Box online products act as network storage gateways to intelligently manage data between your site and Azure.Jump To: [03:40] Demo Start For more information:Azure Data Box docsAzure Data Box productsAzure Data Box pricingCreate a free account (Azure)...
Sep 24, 2018
Julie Kohler joins Scott Hanselman and shows you how you can generate an isochrone using Azure Maps. Isochrones represent the reachable range from a given point using a set of constraints such as fuel, energy or time. These polygons can be combined with a number of features to do things like search for gas stations within a given range or find restaurants within 15 minutes given current traffic conditions.Jump To: [01:57] Demo Start For more information, see:Route Matrix, isochrones, IP lookup, ...
Sep 21, 2018
Julie Kohler joins Scott Hanselman and shows you how to get the ISO country code for a provided IP address. Use this information to tailor your application to your customers' needs based on geographic location.Jump To: [02:10] Demo Start For more information, see:Route Matrix, isochrones, IP lookup, and more added to Azure Maps (blog)Azure Maps overviewAzure Maps docsAzure Maps pricingAzure Maps Functional API reference docsCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Foll...
Sep 21, 2018
Julie Kohler joins Scott Hanselman and shows you how to execute batch geocoding calls using Azure Maps as well as how to get the polygon for a administrative area on a map. Batch geocoding enables a developer to pass up to 10k geocoding or reverse geocoding calls in a single call while Azure Maps handles the processing in the background. The polygon feature enables developers to get the boundaries for things like cities, states and postal codes and use these for doing geometry searches or creati...
Sep 21, 2018
Julie Kohler joins Scott Hanselman and shows you how to execute batch routing calls using Azure Maps as well as how to do matrix routing with a given set of origins and destinations. Batch geocoding enables developers to pass up to 1,000 routing queries with a single call while Azure Maps handles the processing in the background. For matrix routing, a developer can pass in a series of origins and destinations and get back the travel times and distances to make important decisions for their route...
Sep 21, 2018
Christian Wade joins Scott Hanselman to show you how to unlock petabyte-scale datasets in Azure with a way that was not previously possible. Learn how to use the aggregations feature in Power BI to enable interactive analysis over big data.For more information:Power BI Desktop September 2018 Feature Summary (Analytics)Aggregations in Power BI Desktop (Preview) docsMicrosoft Power BI - Interactive Data Visualization BI ToolsCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follo...
Sep 12, 2018
Michael Greene joins Scott Hanselman to discuss a new set of experiences for Configuration Management in Azure, and how anyone new to modern management can discover and learn new process more quickly than before.Jump To: [01:49] Demo Start For more information:Azure Automation State Configuration Overview (docs)Azure Automation overviewAzure Automation pricingAzure Automation roadmapCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @migreene
Sep 11, 2018
Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the Azure Data Factory visual tools, which enable you to iteratively create, configure, test, deploy, and monitor data integration pipelines. We took into account your feedback to enable functional, performance, and security improvements to the visual tools.Jump To: [01:41] Demo Start For more information:Enhance productivity using Azure Data Factory Visual Tools (blog post)Azure Data Factory overviewAzure Data Factory documentationAzure Data Fact...
Sep 07, 2018
Jenny Hunter joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Automation, which has seen several new improvements including support for Python 2, the ability to run against local Linux machines, the ability to run against any Azure VM with no setup (Run Command), and native Azure alert integration.Jump To: [03:27] Demo Start For more information:Azure Automation - Cloud Automation Service overviewAzure Automation User DocumentationAzure Automation samples (GitHub repo)Azure Automation pricingCreate a free...
Aug 30, 2018
Did you know that Buffalo has plugins for Azure? In this episode, Martin Strobel joins Erik St. Martin to demo building a Go app with Buffalo and deploying it to Azure App Service.Jump To: [01:20] Demo Start For more information:Go on AzureAzure plugin for Buffalo GitHub repoBuffalo plugins listAzure for Go developers - Tutorials, API ReferenceCreate a free account (Azure)Go on Azure series:Part 1—Build Go apps with Visual Studio CodePart 2—CI/CD, Docker, and Kubernetes with VSTSPart 3—Go on Web...
Aug 28, 2018