Build5Nines Weekly - March 6, 2023

Here's your weekly dose of the latest cloud and enterprise news and other community content for the week! Build5Nines Weekly provides your go-to source to keep up-to-date on all the latest Microsoft Azure news and updates. Included within this newsletter are blog articles, podcasts, videos, and more from Microsoft and the greater community over the past week.

Now let's get to the weeks top news, blog articles, videos, podcasts, and more within the Cloud & Enterprise space!

The Weeks Top Links

Here are some of the most notable links from the week:

• Terraform: Deploy Azure Function App with Consumption Plan via Chris Pietschmann
• Terraform: Store Backend State in Azure Storage Account via Chris Pietschmann
• Terraform: String Functions and Interpolation Explained via Chris Pietschmann
• Terraform: Using CIDR Notation to Define IP Address Ranges and Subnet Address Spaces via Chris Pietschmann
• Host WordPress in Microsoft Azure with App Service (PaaS hosting) via Chris Pietschmann
• IPv4 Address CIDR Range Reference and Calculator via Chris Pietschmann
• How Adoption of ChatGPT Can Benefit Your Career in DevOps, SRE or Software Development via Chris Pietschmann
• Crafting Effective AI Prompts for Improved Content Generation: A ChatGPT Guide via Chris Pietschmann
• Chris Pietschmann Awarded HashiCorp Ambassador – 2023 via Chris Pietschmann
• Microsoft is named a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection Platforms via Emma Jones
• 7 reasons to join us at Azure Open Source Day via Katie Fritsch and David Dennis

Microsoft Azure Service Updates

Here are the Microsoft Azure updates from the week:

• Generally available updates for early March 2023
• Generally Available: Azure Monitor Logs now supports Availability Zones in Canada Central, France Central and Japan East
• Azure SQL—General availability updates for early March 2023
• Disclosure: In-tree disk and file drivers will no longer be supported starting in Kubernetes v1.26
• Azure Virtual Network Manager Event Logging now in public preview
• New Azure for Operators products and partner programs released
• Public preview: Azure PostgreSQL migration extension for Azure Data Studio
• General availability: Power BI with Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server
• Generally available: Burstable compute for single node configurations for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
• Now Available: Azure Monitor Ingestion client libraries
• General availability: Azure Archive Storage now available in West US 3
• Public Preview: Azure Monitor container insights offers customizable cost optimization settings
• General availability: New enhanced connection troubleshoot
• Public preview: Login and TDE-enabled database migrations with Azure Database Migration Service
• Generally available: 4 TiB, 8 TiB, and 16 TiB storage per node for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
• Public preview: Confidential containers on ACI
• GA: Online live resize of persistent volumes
• Public preview: Pod sandboxing in AKS
• Public preview: Caching in ACR
• Public Preview: Auto vacuum metrics for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
• Public preview: AKS NodeOSUpgrade channel
• General Availability: Customer Initiated Storage Account Conversion
• General availability: Scale improvements and metrics enhancements on Azure’s regional WAF

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