Azure Weekly Newsletter Issue #326

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AI + Machine Learning

Covering: Anomaly detector, Azure Bot Service, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Open Datasets, Bing APIs, Cognitive Services, Computer Vision, Content moderator, Custom vision, Data Science Virtual Machines, Face, Form Recogniser, Immersive Reader, Ink Recogniser, Language Understanding (LUIS), Machine Learning Studio, Microsoft Genomics, ML.NET, Personaliser, Project Cortex, QnA Maker, Speaker Recognition, Speech-to-Text, Speech translation, Text Analytics, Text to Speech , Translator Speech, Translator Text

• Mark Heffernan blogs about Azure Cognitive Search indexers allow you to ingest data from many new data sources
• On Microsoft + Open Source, Sarah Novotny blogs about Delivering reliable production experiences with PyTorch Enterprise on Microsoft Azure
• Jamie Maguire (@jamie_maguire1) blogs about Building a chatbot you can call using Bot Framework, Direct Line API and Twilio. Part 1
• On Code Project, Jarek Szczegielniak walks through Debugging AI Code Running in a Docker Container
• On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) explains how to Distribute Azure Health Chatbot Using Microsoft Teams Apps
• The Azure Updates Team writes about Cognitive Services - Form Recognizer adds new version in general availability
• On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) explains how to Create your first AI-powered, compliant Chatbot using Azure Health Bot
• The Azure Updates Team covers Azure Machine Learning general availability announcements and public preview announcement at Build, May 2021
• On the Azure blog, John Chirapurath, Vice President, Azure, describes how to Harness the power of data and AI in your applications with Azure
• The Azure Updates Team writes about General availability: Azure Applied AI Services
• The Azure Updates Team writes about General availability: Azure Cognitive Services Translator Document Translation feature and General availability: Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics for Health
• The Azure Updates Team discuss Azure Applied AI Services public preview updates for Build 2021 and Public preview: Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics Adds Question Answering Feature

Analytics

Covering: Apache Spark for HDInsight, Apache Storm for HDInsight, Azure Analysis Services, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Data Share, Azure Databricks, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Synapse Analytics, Data Catalog, Data Factory, Data Lake Analytics, Event Hubs, HDInsight, .NET for Apache Spark, R Server for HDInsight, Azure Purview

• The Azure Updates Team discusses Query Delta Lake files using T-SQL in Azure Synapse Analytics public preview and on Tech Community blog, Jovan Popovic blogs about Query Delta Lake files using T-SQL language in Azure Synapse Analytics
• The Azure Updates Team announces Event Hubs Premium now available in public preview
• Adi Eldar describes The new SCAN Operator: Process Mining in Azure Data Explorer
• On the DEV site, Nitya Narasimhan (@ntiya) provides A Visual Guide To: Azure Data Factory
• The Azure Updates Team announces Spot Virtual Machines are now generally available on Azure Databricks
• The Azure Updates Team announces Azure Cosmos DB role-based access control RBAC now in general availability
• On the Azure blog, Kaiser Larsen (@kaiserlarsen) blogs about Power your business applications data with analytical and predictive insights
• Jianlei Shen writes about New Connectors Available in ADF: Oracle Cloud Storage Amazon S3 Compatible Storage
• "saperla" talks about Azure Databricks and Azure Spot VMs – Save cost by leveraging unused compute capacity
• On SQL Server Central, Ron L'Esteve talks about Creating Deep and Shallow Delta Clones in Azure Databricks
• Travis Dahlke describes How to Create a Data Lake Storage Gen2 Dataset in Azure Data Factory

Compute

Covering: Azure CycleCloud, Azure Dedicated Host, Azure Functions, Azure VMware Solution by CloudSimple, Batch, Cloud Services, Linux Virtual Machines, SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances, Service Fabric, Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Scale Sets

• The Azure Updates Team writes about General availability: Enabling IBM WebSphere Application Server on Azure Virtual Machines, and Azure Machine Learning Managed Online and Batch Endpoints now in public preview //Build 2021. and and General availability: Run Enterprise Java with Red Hat JBoss EAP for Azure Virtual Machines
• Chris Gillum (@cgillum) writes about New Storage Providers for Azure Durable Functions
• The Azure Updates Team and PowerShell support in Durable Functions is now generally available and and Public preview: Introducing new Durable Functions storage provider options
• On the Redmond magazine site, Kurt Mackie (@kurmac) highlights IBM WebSphere App Server Now Available on Azure Linux VMs
• Lee Stott (@lee_stott) talks about Azure CycleCloud – the simplest way to execute HPC on Azure
• On Code Project, Duncan Edwards Jones (@Merrion) describes Event Sourcing on Azure Functions
• Reshma Vishwanath describes Troubleshooting Node down Scenarios in Azure Service Fabric - Part II and Part III
• Madhura Bharadwaj walks through Troubleshooting Azure Functions Key Creation Failures

Containers

Covering: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Red Hat OpenShift, CNAB, CNCF, Container Instances, Container Registry, Porter, WSL, Web App for Containers

• The Azure Updates Team writes about General availability: Azure RBAC for Kubernetes Authorization in AKS, blogs about Preview: AKS support for FIPS compliant nodes, writes about AKS support for regulated industries, describes Public preview: AKS support for containerd for Windows server containers, writes about General availability: Encryption at host support in AKS and discusses Public preview: Kubernetes 1.21 support in AKS
• Pixel Robots. writes about Automatic Azure Kubernetes Service AKS node Image updates
• On Code Project, Jarek Szczegielniak covers Deploying AI Docker Containers to the Cloud
• On the Azure blog, John Gossman blogs about Gain flexibility to run open-source applications your way with Microsoft Azure
• On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Jay Gordon (@jaydestro) describes AzureFunBytes – Containers and Kubernetes with Brendand Burns and lists the Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2021.05.28

Databases

Covering: Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Database for MariaDB, Azure Database for MySQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Database Edge, Azure Cache for Redis, SQL Data Warehouse, SQL Server on virtual machines, SQL Server Stretch Database, Table storage

• Gijs Reijn explains How to Create an Azure SQL Database with PowerShell
• The Azure Updates Team talks about Azure SQL Database ledger available in public preview, and Azure Cosmos DB serverless now in general availability, and Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server: Azure Free offer coming soon, and Public preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale Citus support for PostgreSQL 12 and 13, and Public preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale Citus support for Citus 10, and Azure Cosmos DB integrated cache now in public preview, and Always Encrypted for Azure Cosmos DB in public preview, and Azure Cosmos DB Linux emulator in public preview, and Expanded Azure Cosmos DB free tier now in general availability, and Public preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale Citus columnar compression, and Partial document update for Azure Cosmos DB in private preview, and Cost-optimized diagnostics feature for Azure Cosmos DB in public preview and and Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server: Azure Free offer coming soon
• On the MSSQL Tips site, Ron L'Esteve covers Azure Databricks Access Controls and Row Level Security
• Jeff Davis blogs about Postgres with columnar compression in Hyperscale Citus on Azure
• Jose M Jurado (@jmjuradodiaz) discusses Lesson Learned 172: ApplicationIntentReadonly in General Purpose database tier
• Nik Larin blogs about Whats new in Hyperscale Citus for Postgres on Azure ft. read replicas
• Sunil Kamath (@kamathsun) blogs about Making application development easy and affordable with MySQL on Azure
• Sunil Kamath (@kamathsun) blogs about Bringing the best of Azure and PostgreSQL innovation to developers
• MustafaAshour covers Tips & Tricks 1: Creating alerts for Azure SQL Managed Instance
• The Azure Updates Team announces Public preview: Azure Confidential Ledger
• On ZDNet, Mary Jo Foley discusses Microsoft takes another stab at a Blockchain-powered ledger service
• Marisa Brasile discusses Migrating to SQL: Enabling Automatic Conversions for Partitioned Tables Ep.5 Data Exposed

Developer Tools

Covering: App Configuration, Azure Lab Services, CLIs, Developer tool integrations, SDKs, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio Online

• Aaron Powell (@slace) writes about Local Dev With CosmosDB and devcontainers
• The Azure Updates Team writes about General availability: Improved Python support in Visual Studio Code with Pylance
• On the Visual Studio blog, Justin Johnson writes about Visual Studio 2019 v16.10 and v16.11 Preview 1 are Available Today
• Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) talks about Running Microsoft Edge on Linux with WSLg while running Visual Studio 2019 and debugging a Linux .NET app with WSL on Windows 10
• On Visual Studio Magazine, David Ramel (@dramel) explains how to What's New in Visual Studio 2019 v16.10 and v16.11 Preview 1, writes about Hot Reload Hits .NET Kinda and explains how to What's New for F# in Visual Studio 16.10
• David Ramel (@dramel) writes about Visual Studio 2022 Roadmap Published

DevOps

Covering: Azure Artifacts, Azure Boards, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, Azure Test Plans, Azure DevTest Labs, DevOps tool integrations

• Tobias Zimmergren (@zimmergren) explains how to Create Azure DevOps or GitHub bugs from Azure Monitor logs
• On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Gloridel Morales highlights that Azure DevOps Server 2020.1 RTW
• Also on the Microsoft DevOps blog, Martina Hiemstra (@mlh3636) describes Copy Dashboard – Public Preview
• Sagar Lankala writes about DevTest Labs Decommissioning preview API's '2015-05-21-preview' & '2017-04-26-preview' in 90 days
• Samit Jhaveri explains how to Kickstart collaborative DevSecOps practices with GitHub and Azure
• Ariya Khamvongsa delves into Azure portal April 2021 update
• Thomas Thornton (@tamstar1234) explains how to Create an Azure DevOps self-hosted linux agent virtual machine using Terraform
• On the Azure blog, Arpan Shah (@arpanshah) writes about New Azure capabilities to simplify deployment and management

Hybrid

Covering: Azure Arc, Azure Stack

• On the Codit blog, Tom Kerkhove (@TomKerkhove) describes Running Azure PaaS anywhere using Azure application services with Azure Arc
• Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) covers Azure Unblogged - Azure Arc Jumpstart ArcBox
• The Azure Updates Team writes about General availability: Azure ExpressRoute: 5 New Peering Locations Available, and Azure Stack HCI 60-Day Free Trial Now Available, and Azure Stack HCI now available in China, and Public preview: Run App Service on Kubernetes or anywhere with Azure Arc, and Azure Kubernetes Service AKS on Azure Stack HCI is now generally available and and The Microsoft Build of OpenJDKis now generally available
• The cloudskills.fm podcast features Thomas Maurer on Azure Arc and Cloud Governance
• Anirban Paul discusses Quality of Service policies for your workloads hosted on Azure Stack HCI
• Anthony Bartolo (@WirelessLife) talks about AzUpdate: VNET Peering & Bastian now GA, IE11 retirement, Windows 10 IT tools update and more and blogs about AzUpdate: Sysinternal Updates, MS Certs renewal, App service on Kubernetes on Azure Arc and more
• The Azure Updates Team describes Public preview: Run Event Grid on Kubernetes in Azure or anywhere with Azure Arc

Identity

Covering: Azure Active Directory (AD), Azure Active Directory B2C, Azure Active Directory Domain Services

• Yannick Reekmans (@yannickreekmans) writes about Secretless applications: add permissions to a Managed Identity
• On the Redmond magazine site, Kurt Mackie (@kurmac) discusses Microsoft Previews Contextual Settings for Azure Active Directory Conditional Access
• Robert Smit (@Clustermvp) discusses Step by Step Create a User P2S VPN using Azure Secured Virtual Hub and Azure Active Directory SDWAN Azure Secure
• Alex Simons & Caleb Baker write about Conditional Access authentication context now in public preview
• Hannes Lagler-Gruener writes about New YouTube session Azure CA and blogs about Azure Conditional Access is at the heart of the new identity-driven control plane
• David Loder writes about Multi-Tenant B2B Sync with MIM Graph Connector
• Jessica Afeku covers Microsoft Build 2021 Security, Compliance, Identity, and Management
• Jing Li announces Active Directory Identity Improvement on AKS on Azure Stack HCI
• Vesa Juvonen (@vesajuvonen) covers Microsoft Identity Platform community call – May 2021
• Antti K. Koskela (@koskila) describes Using Azure CLI to assign an AD group to multiple resource groups at once

Integration

Covering: Azure API for FHIR, Event Grid, Logic Apps, Service Bus

• Jon Fancey (@jonfancey) discusses Azure Logic Apps Announcement – GA of single-tenant Standard SKU
• Justin Yoo (@justinchronicle) writes about End-to-End Data Tracing from Power Apps to Cosmos DB
• Sandro Pereira (@sandro_asp) describes BizTalk Property Schema Error: The type name does not exist in the type System
• The Azure Updates Team discusses Public preview: Native support for WebSocket APIs in Azure API Management

Internet of Things

Covering: Azure Digital Twins, Azure IoT Central, Azure IoT Edge, Azure IoT Hub, Azure IoT solution accelerators, Azure Maps, Azure Sphere, Azure Time Series Insights, IoT DevKit, WildernessLabs, Windows 10 IoT Core Services

• The Azure Updates Team covers Azure IoT Verified telemetry is now in public preview
• Sander van de Velde explains how to Deploy Prometheus container with Azure IoT Edge
• On Tech Community blog, Goran Vuksic covers Saving Tweety with Azure Percept
• Kirsten Soelling explains how to Is security a blocker for IoT Let's discuss
• Wellington Duraes discusses Azure IoT TLS: Critical changes are almost here and why you should care

Learning

Covering: Microsoft Certifications, Azure Certifications, Microsoft Learning Paths, Certification Pathway Information

• Monish Gangwani blogs about Community and certification related resources for developers
• Brenda Saucedo talks about Microsoft Azure AI  and Data Fundamentals Specializations are now live on Coursera
• The Student Developer Team invite you to Meet the 2021 Imagine Cup World Champion: Team REWEBA from Kenya
• Vidya Ransam describes How to Become Azure Security Engineer
• Lee Stott (@lee_stott) discusses Cornell University creating a graduate course on cloud computing, to educate the next generation

Management and Governance

Covering: Automation, Azure Advisor, Azure Backup, Azure Blueprints, Azure Lighthouse, Azure Managed Applications, Azure mobile app, Azure Monitor, Azure Policy, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Service Health, Azure Site Recovery, Cloud Shell, Cost Management, Microsoft Azure portal, Scheduler, Azure Purview

• Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) covers Azure Bicep Paraments and Data Types
• The Azure Updates Team writes about General availability: of Azure Log Analytics and Application Insight in South India
• The Azure Updates Team announce the public preview: Log Analytics workspace insights from Azure Monitor, and public preview: Export Azure Monitor logs to multiple destinations and and public preview: Save and share log analytics queries with new query packs in Azure Monitor
• The Azure Updates Team discusses Public preview: Scan and view lineage of data stored in Hive Metastore Database using Azure Purview
• Anusha Ammaluru talks about Learning Kusto Query Language - A tool for performance test engineers
• Arunraj Selvaraj describes Monitor AKS platform with Azure Monitor for Containers - List of Monitors - Part 1
• Noa Kuperberg announces Log Analytics Workspace Insights preview
• The Azure Updates Team covers public preview: Easily onboard Application Insights for Java apps on Azure App Services

Media

Covering: Azure Media Player, Content Protection, Encoding, Live and On-Demand Streaming, Media Analytics, Media Services, Video Indexer

• The Azure Updates Team covers Azure Communication Services UI Library available in public preview, blogs about  Calling SDK for Windows Apps in public preview and Traversal Using Relays Around NAT TURN is now in public preview for Azure Communication Services
• On The Azure Podcast, episode 379 covers Azure for Operators (products and services for telecommunications industry)

Migration

Covering: Azure Database Migration Service, Azure Migrate, Data Box

• Nick Rimmer explains How to Prep a Hyper-V VM with the Azure Migration Assessment Tool and How to Move a Hyper-V VM to Azure with Azure Migrate Guide

Mobile

Covering: App Service (Mobile), Mobile apps, Notification Hubs, Visual Studio App Centre, Xamarin

• On the Xamarin blog, Rachel Kang She/her covers The Journey to Accessible Apps: Screen Readers
• Jeffrey Raymond Kitt covers Friday Five: Power Platform, Xamarin Tips, More
• Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) describes David Ortinau on Multi-Platform App Development Using .NET MAUI - Episode 142

Networking

Covering: Application Gateway, Azure Bastion, Azure DNS, Azure ExpressRoute, Azure Firewall, Azure Firewall Manager, Azure Front Door, Azure Internet Analyzer, Azure Private Link, Content Delivery Network, Load Balancer, Network Watcher, Traffic Manager, Virtual Network, Virtual WAN, VPN Gateway, Web Application Firewall

• No content this week

Security

Covering: Azure DDoS Protection, Azure Information Protection, Azure Sentinel, Key Vault, Security Center

• The Azure Updates Team announces Azure Security Center integration with GitHub Actions, in public preview
• Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) blogs about Azure Defender for Key Vault in Azure Security Center
• Tobias Zimmergren Jussi Roine writes about Microsoft Build 2021 announcements and news on episode 83 of Ctrl+Alt+Azure
• Jeffrey Raymond Kitt discusses Friday Five: All Things Azure: Logic, Sentinel, VM
• On Azure Sentinel blog, Nayef Yassin announces 15+ New Azure Sentinel Data Connectors
• On Azure Sentinel Blog, Matt Lowe writes about Who Watches the SOC Team Enabling Audit/Risk Teams to Monitor the SOC
• Tiander Turpijn talks about Azure Sentinel PowerShell Module Az.SecurityInsights has been released to GA
• Tobias Zimmergren (@zimmergren) explains how to Visualize Log Analytics data ingestion using Azure Sentinel

Storage

Covering: Archive Storage, Avere vFXT for Azure, Azure Data Lake Store, Azure FXT Edge Filer, Azure HPC Cache, Azure NetApp Files, Blob Storage, Disk Storage, File Storage, Managed Disks, Queue Storage, Storage Accounts, Storage Explorer, StorSimple

• The Azure Updates Team describes Azure Storage Blob inventory public preview is now available in all public regions
• Jose Moreno (@erjosito) discusses Using Trident to Automate Azure NetApp Files from OpenShift
• Silvio Di Benedetto talks about Azure File Sync v12.1

Web

Covering: API apps, API Management, App Service (Web), Azure Cognitive Search, Azure SignalR Service, Azure Spring Cloud, Web apps

• The Azure Updates Team announces App Service Managed Certificates now generally available
• Aaron Powell (@slace) discusses Leveling Up Static Web Apps With the CLI
• On the DEV site, Abhishek Gupta (@abhi_tweeter) covers Redis Streams in Action: Part 1 Intro and overview
• David Ramel (@dramel) blogs about Analyst Says 'Tide May Be Changing' for PWAs, a Target of Blazor
• Jame Maguire describes Cloud with Chris: Tales from The Real World
• Madhura Bharadwaj talks about Azure App Service Environment ASE quick reference

Windows Virtual Desktop

Covering: Windows Virtual Desktop

• Ramya Chitrakar discusses Whats New in Microsoft Endpoint Manager - 2105 May Edition

Useful Links

• Azure Resource Inventory - Azure Resource Inventory is a powerful script written in PowerShell to generate an Excel report of any Azure Environment you have read access
• Azure Quickstart Templates - Learn how to deploy to Azure using ARM Templates. Over 850 examples in this repo.
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• Azure Charts - Azure Charts is a set of auto-rebuilt charts to keep you updated on Azure changes, news, stats. Public updates, RSS channels and web pages are used as data sources
• The Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Azure (2nd Edition) - ebook from Microsoft showcasing architectural approaches and common design patterns you face when building modern applications.
• Azure Virtual Datacenter - ebook from Microsoft highlighting an approach to isolation, security, and trust in the Microsoft cloud.
• Cyber Security Demystified - ebook from Microsoft describing how to keep your organisation safe.
• Microsoft's What is Azure poster - a visual overview of Azure's services and features.
• Microsoft Azure Essentials: Fundamentals of Azure - a free ebook from Microsoft Press, by Michael S. Collier and Robin E. Shahan.
• Data Science in the Cloud with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning and R - a free ebook on Azure Machine Learning, by Stephen F. Elston.
• Protecting Data in Microsoft Azure - a whitepaper that describes the various mechanism you can you can leverage for managing sensitive data in the Azure platform.
• Azure Architecture Center - guidance from the Patterns & Practices team covering API Design, API implementation, Autoscaling, Background jobs, CDN, Caching, Data partitioning, Monitoring and diagnostics, Retry, Scalability and availability.
• Azure Architect's Reference - if you are an architect responsible for building an application on Azure, or are trying to figure out how you could migrate an application and need to dig deep into the workload, cost, security, capacity, availability, deployment and operational modelling this invaluable resource should be your first stop. An open source project, with contributions from several experienced architects, it gathers data from many different references into a single, useful guide that is constantly updated by the community.
• Azure Table Storage Design Guide - a guide from the storage team.
• Azure infrastructure services implementation guidelines - key design and implementation guidelines for deploying an IT workload in Azure infrastructure services.
• Azure Speed Test - a simple web tool that measures the latency between you and Azure Datacenters to suggest which might be fastest for you location.
• Azure Websites Cheatsheet - everything you need to know about configuring & managing Azure Websites on a single page.
• Data Migration Assistant - enables you to upgrade to a modern data platform by detecting compatibility issues that can impact database functionality on your new version of SQL Server and Azure SQL Database. It recommends performance and reliability improvements for your target environment.
• Azure SQL DTU Calculator - a tool to help you determine the number of DTUs for your existing SQL Server database(s) as well as a recommendation of the minimum performance level and service tier that you need before you migrate to Azure SQL Database.
• Microsoft Azure Symbol/Icon Set - a set of Visio and PowerPoint shapes for use in architecture diagrams / presentations.
• Service Bus Explorer - a free and open source tool for managing and exploring Azure Service Bus(including Event Hubs).
• Best practices for designing Azure Resource Manager Templates - guidance based on the whitepaper 'World Class ARM Templates Considerations and Proven Practices'.
• Microsoft Cloud Networking for Enterprise Architects - a downloadable guide to Azure networking, covering topics such as cloud migration and networking for PaaS and SaaS services
• Whitepapers for Power BI - numerous whitepapers ranging various Power BI topics
• Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook - ebook from Microsoft, including use cases, hands-on steps, and tutorials for quickly configuring your own serverless environments.
• Executive Summary: Enterprise Cloud Strategy - executive summary of the 140-page e-book from Microsoft. Learn about the basics of adopting a cloud computing strategy for your enterprise.
• Migrating SQL Server to Azure SQL Database Managed Instance—A Step-by-Step Guide - ebook from Microsoft providing breakdown of tactical steps for implementing a quick, simple, and low-impact data migration with Azure SQL Database Managed Instance.
• Azure Backup Deep Dive Whitepaper - a deep dive by Adin Ermie and Charbel Nemnom describing Azure Backup
• Azure Stack: An extension of Azure - whitepaper from Microsoft detailing how you can extend Azure Stack to make Azure services available on-premises
• Azure Strategy and Implementation Guide - For Azure users - ebook from Microsoft outlining recommended general architecture and cloud design principles, DevOps, approaches to service management, and overall governance.
• Azure Data Factory: SSIS in the Cloud - eBook from Microsoft explaining why you would want to migrate your existing SSIS workloads to Azure Data Factory and addressing common considerations and concerns. Includes technical details of creating an Azure-SSIS IR and then walk-throughs of how to upload, execute, and monitor your packages through Azure Data Factory
• Parallel Virtual File Systems on Microsoft Azure - ebook from Microsoft documenting the results of a series of performance tests on Azure to see how scalable Lustre, GlusterFS, and BeeGFS are
• Build and deploy a multi-container application in Azure Service Fabric - ebook from Microsoft which shows how to create a sample multi-container application using ASP.NET Core and Docker and deploy it on an Azure Service Fabric cluster.
• Azure ebook/whitepaper resources - White papers, analyst reports, and e-books landing page with an abundance of extra resources.
• Farmer - This is a DSL for ARM template creation - "Making repeatable Azure deployments easy"!