Azure Weekly Newsletter Issue #348

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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

• The Azure Updates Team announces Azure Applied AI Services Azure Cognitive Search updates and Azure Cognitive Service for Language are both GA.
• Sethu Raman writes about New managed online endpoints features in Azure ML: Autoscaling, Debugging, MLflow and more
• The Azure Updates Team share the Azure Machine Learning public preview announcements Ignite, November 2021
• The Azure Updates Team announces Private preview: Azure OpenAI Service combines access to powerful GPT-3 language models with Azures enterprise capabilities and on the Redmond magazine site, John K. Waters blogs about Microsoft's New Azure OpenAI Service Provides GPT-3 Access
• The Azure Data Team blogs about Bringing Feature Store to Azure - from Microsoft Azure, Redis, and Feast Community
• Shivani Santosh Sambare talks about NVIDIA Triton Inference Server in Azure Machine Learning with managed online endpoints
• Nandakishor Basavanthappa talks about Azure Video Analyzer - Ignite Nov 2021
• Ornella Altunyan shares part 1 of how to Build an AI-enabled closet organization app with Power Apps and AI Builder

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 announces the General Availability of: Stream Analytics now offers support for Availability Zones with Dedicated Cluster, and Event Hubs Premium Azure Synapse Linked Service, and Event Hubs Premium, and New Azure Data Explorer output plugin for Telegraf, and announce the Public Preview of: Additional ML options for Spark on Azure Synapse and Azure Data Explorer is now supported as an output for Azure Stream Analytics job
• The Azure Updates Team announce Public preview: Industry-aware analytics with database templates in Azure Synapse
• Ashwin Patil discusses Hunting for potential network beaconing patterns using Apache Spark via Azure Synapse – Part 1
• Chi Nguyen asks Whats new: Large-scale security analytics with Azure Synapse and Microsoft Sentinel Notebooks
• Kaiser Larsen (@kaiserlarsen) shares 5 Reasons to Join Upcoming Webinar: Build a Unified Analytics Platform with Synapse and Power BI
• Santosh Balasubramanian announces Database templates in Azure Synapse Analytics
• On SQL Server Central, Diponkar Paul explains How to Recover a Corrupted Azure Data Factory Integration Runtime
• Somnath Ghosh explains how to Migrate on Premise HBase Cluster to HDInsight
• Somnath Ghosh covers Multifactor Authentication with ESP HDInsight Cluster

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

• On the Azure blog, Erin Chapple (@erinchapple) covers Powering all your applications from cloud to edge with Azure infrastructure
• The Azure Updates Team announces the General Availability of: New orchestration mode for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets, and Azure trusted launch for Virtual Machines, and New Azure Virtual Machines deliver increased performance for a broad range of workloads, and  Azure VMware Solution in the Germany West Central Azure region, and On-demand disk bursting for Azure Premium SSDs.
• The Azure Updates Team announces Public preview: Azure Virtual Machines DCsv3 and DCdsv3-series now available
• The Azure Updates Team announces New capabilities introduced for disk pool public preview for Azure VMware Solution
• The Azure Updates Team announces Limited preview: New Azure Virtual Machines deliver increased storage throughput for data-intensive workloads
• Shannon Kuehn covers Video 3 of the Azure VMware Solution Zero to Hero Series

Containers

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

• On the Azure blog, Brendan Burns (@brendandburns) explains how to Innovate with cloud-native apps and open source on Azure
• The Azure Updates Team announces the General Availability of: AKS support for Secrets Store CSI driver, and Azure Service Operator v2, and Open Service Mesh add-on for AKS, and Run IBM WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty on ARO and AKS and Run Oracle WebLogic Server on Azure Kubernetes Service
• MacKenzie Olson announces public preview of zonal container groups on Azure Container Instances ACI
• The Azure Updates Team announces the General availability: AKS support for Secrets Store CSI driver, and Public preview: AKS node pool user start/stop feature, and Public preview: gMSAv2 security policy support for Kubernetes workloads on Windows, and Public preview: NAT gateway integration with AKS, describes Public preview: Dapr extension for AKS and Public preview: Azure Container Apps
• Thorsten Hans (@ThorstenHans) shares an Introduction to Azure Container Apps, explains How to deploy Azure Container Apps with Bicep and blogs about Traffic split in Azure Container Apps
• Geert Baeke (@GeertBaeke) describes Taking Azure Container Apps for a spin
• Sam Cogan (@samcogan) blogs about WTH are Azure Container Apps
• On the Dapr Blog, the Dapr project maintainers announce Dapr joins CNCF as an incubating project!
• Thorsten Hans (@ThorstenHans) explains how to Distribute WebAssembly modules as OCI artifacts
• Steve Buchanan (@buchatech) explains how to Get started with Argo CD & Azure Kubernetes Service
• Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) explains how to Modernize Applications with Windows containers and Kubernetes
• Srini Padala covers Security considerations for Azure Kubernetes Service
• Walter Myers blogs about Considerations for Migrating .NET Applications to App Service or Azure Container Instances ACI

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

• The Azure Updates Team announces the General Availability of: Cost saving recommendations in Azure Advisor for Azure Cosmos DB, and Provisioned throughput spending limit for Azure Cosmos DB, and New indexing metrics for Azure Cosmos DB, and Azure Cosmos DB: Partial document update.
• The Azure Updates Team announces Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra service now generally available
• The Azure Updates Team announces Public preview updates to Azure SQL Managed Instance boosts performance, scale, and flexibility
• The Azure Updates Team announces Azure Cosmos DB: Server side retries for Cassandra API in public preview
• The Azure Updates Team announces Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB: Custom partitioning support in public preview
• The Azure Updates Team announces Link feature in Azure SQL Managed Instance now in limited public preview
• On SQL Server Central, Arjun Sivadasan discusses Azure Cosmos DB – HTAP using Azure Synapse Link
• The Azure Updates Team announces Azure Cache for Redis: Redis 6.0 supported in general availability
• The Azure Updates Team announces Azure SQL—general availability updates for early November 2021
• On the SQL Server Blog, Peter Carlin announces SQL Server 2022 preview: Azure-enabled with continued performance and security innovation
• The Azure Updates Team announces Azure SQL: Public preview updates for early November 2021
• On the MSSQL Tips site, Mohammed Moinudheen talks about Options to Export of Azure SQL Database Part 2
• Bashar Hussein explains how to Achieve up to a 50% performance boost in Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server using thread pools
• Maria Zakourdaev blogs about Cosmos DB Data Migration Between Containers using Databricks and PySpark

Developer Tools

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

• The Azure Updates Team explains how to Install Azure Service Operator via Visual Studio Code extension for AKS
• On the Visual Studio blog, Andy Sterland writes about Visual Studio 2022 Launch Event Agenda
• On Channel 9, Matt Wojo talks about WSL: Mount USB devices Tabs vs Spaces
• Omar Khan writes about 3 ways to enhance your cloud journey: break, prepare, and optimize your apps in Azure
• Chase Wilson talks about Azure CLI Microsoft Ignite Highlights

DevOps

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

• On the endjin blog, Barry Smart says Flex Your DevSecOps Muscles With Bicep (and get started with our FREE cheat sheet)
• Adam Bertram (@adbertram) discusses Getting Started with Azure Bicep Step-by-Step
• On the Azure Medium blog, Ivan Porta provides A side-by-side comparison of Azure DevOps and GitHub
• On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Alison Yu blogs about Putting Tools in Your Hands to Improve Developer Productivity
• Richard Fennell (@richardfennell) describes How to fix Azure Pipeline YAML parsing errors seen after renaming the default Git branch
• On the Microsoft BI Tools blog, Joost van Rossum (@ssisjoost) writes about ADF Release - Create YAML CICD Pipeline - part 2 and  ADF Snack: Set global params during deployment
• Sonia Yu writes about Your target end-state: Azure landing zones conceptual architecture
• Jeffrey Chilberto covers GitHub Actions - Azure Function Apps zip deployment - ERROR: 'str' object has no attribute 'value'
• On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Samit Jhaveri explains how to Build secure apps on hardened dev environments with secure DevOps workflows
• .NET Rocks episode 1764 focuses on Azure Infrastructure as Code with Eduard Keiholz, Erwin Staal and Henry Been
• The Azure Updates Team announce the Public preview: OpenID Connect integration between Azure AD and GitHub Actions

Hybrid

Covering: Azure Arc, Azure Stack

• On the Azure blog, Kathleen Mitford writes about Your hybrid, multicloud, and edge strategy just got better with Azure
• The Azure Updates Team writes about General availability: Azure Monitor container insights for Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes, and Public preview: New Azure Arc capabilities in November 2021 and Private preview: New Azure Arc capabilities in November 2021
• The Azure Updates Team announce HCI Azure Machine Learning - Ignite, November 2021 public previews
• Ben Armstrong writes about AKS on Azure Stack HCI - October 2021 update
• Harpreet Kaur explains how to Update to Azure Stack HCI, version 21H2 using new update experience
• On Channel 9, Paul Secord talks about Armchair Architects: Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Architectures - Observability Azure Enablement Show
• Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) blogs about Microsoft Ignite Ask the Experts: Protecting Azure Data, Easier than Ever and writes about Deep Dive on AKS on Azure Stack HCI at Microsoft Ignite
• Hanli Ren talks about App Service on Kubernetes with Azure Arc

Identity

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

• The Azure Updates Team writes about General availability: Bastion Standard SKU and Azure Automation support for Managed Identities is now generally available
• Alex Simons says Microsoft Authenticator app – easier ways to add or manage enterprise accounts, and a cool new icon
• Stephane Lapointe (@s_lapointe) discusses Looking for activities triggered only by humans in Azure Activities in Kusto or Log Analytics

Integration

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

• The Azure Updates Team writes about General availability: API Management and Event Grid Integration, and Azure Service Bus large message support reaches general availability, and Logic Apps Standard Plan updates in general availability and Azure Cosmos DB Logic Apps Standard Connector in public preview
• The Azure Updates Team announces Azure Backup: Multi-user authorization for Backup is now in public preview
• Drac Zhang explains how to Create CSV files with BOM marker in Logic App
• Mohammed Barqawi discusses Logic App Http pagination deeper look, build custom paging wrapper without loop

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 announce Public preview: Azure Container Registry connected registry for IoT Edge and General availability: IoT Central - Organizations
• On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman, Toddy Mladenov, and Jeanine Burke talk about how to Enable advanced IoT Edge scenarios with ACR connected registry Azure Friday
• Saravanan Varadharajan writes about Hierarchical Deployment of IoT Edge with ACR Connected Registry
• On Code Project, Matt Scarpino talks about Developing for Azure Sphere, Part 1: Getting Started and Part 2: Building High-Level Applications
• Kaushik Roy explains how to Deploy video workflows on the edge using Azure IoT and AVA

Learning

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

• Sandeep Bhanot explains how to Learn, connect, and explore your future at Microsoft Ignite
• On the Azure podcast, Kendall Roden, Evan Basalik, Sujit D'Mello give an Ignite 2021 Wrap-Up on Episode 401 of the Azure Podcast
• Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine chat about Digesting announcements from Microsoft Ignite in November 2021 - Ctrl+Alt+Azure Episode 106

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

• The Azure Updates Team talks about Public preview: Azure Chaos Studio - Systematically improve resilience with controlled chaos
• The Azure Updates Team announces the General Availability of EventHub action in Azure Monitor action groups, and Log Analytics Workspace Insights in Azure Monitor, and  Near real-time analytics for telemetry, time series, and log data on Azure Synapse and Azure Site Recovery now supports failover of multiple IP configurations
• The Azure Updates Team announces the Public Preview of: Manage your Log Analytics data export rules in Azure portal, and Self-service Access Management in Azure Purview, and  Near real-time analytics for telemetry, time series, and log data on Azure Synapse, and Azure Purviews Integration with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and Metrics and Metric alerts for Azure Backup, and Explore your Amazon RDS data in Azure Purview, and Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Exporters and PowerShell 7.1 runbook support in Azure Automation
• Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) explains how to Automate Azure VMs Restore with Azure Backup
• Stanislav Zhelyazkov (@StanZhelyazkov) talks about Azure Monitor Log Alert V2
• Albert Cabello Serrano provides A data-driven approach to managing devices in your organization

Media

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

• Itai Norman blogs about Azure Video Analyzer for Media is now available as an Azure resource

Migration

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

• On the Azure blog, Tanuj Bansal writes about New investments to help you accelerate your Azure migration and modernization journey
• Anmol Varma explains how to Accelerate cloud migrations using Azure Migrate: Server Migration

Mobile

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

• Zachary Cavanell covers Power Apps Pay-as-you-go Model, Standalone Mobile App Packages & Azure Integration

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

• The Azure Updates Team announces General availability: New troubleshooting experiences in Network Insights for VPN Gateway & Azure Firewall, and Public Previews of ExpressRoute FastPath improvements, and Azure Virtual Network Manager and Gateway Load Balancer
• The Azure Updates Team discusses Public preview: ExpressRoute private peering support for BGP communities
• Rongxun Wang walks through Introducing Private Link in Hyperscale Citus for Postgres on Azure
• Joe Carlyle (@wedoAzure) describes How to – Build a Test Azure Network with Bicep

Security

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

• On the Azure blog, Mark Russinovich (@markrussinovich) discusses Key foundations for protecting your data with Azure confidential computing
• Thuan Nguyen blogs about Azure Sentinel Analytics Rule ARM Template, and Azure Sentinel custom alert named based on detected resource and Azure Sentinel near-real-time NRT Analytics Rule ARM Template
• Ron Marsiano blogs about Detection tuning – Making the tuning process simple - one step at a time.
• Sylvie Liu explains how to Detecting Emerging Threats with Microsoft Sentinel Fusion
• Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) describes Automation Rules inside Azure Sentinel
• Joe Carlyle (@wedoAzure) describes How to – Control Azure DDoS Plan Deployment using Azure Policy
• Zachary Cavanell explains how to Stop Cloud & Hybrid Apps from being Cyber Attack Entry Points

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 announces the General Availability of: Provisioned throughput increase for Azure Ultra Disk Storage, and Centralized management of keys for encrypting Azure disks, and the Public Preview of Live resize of Azure Disk Storage and Cross-region snapshot copy for Azure Disk Storage
• Anthony Watherston talks about Azure Policy Guest Configuration – Using Tags for Configuration of Features
• Hai Yue delves into Use Azure Notification Hub Lab tool to import/export registration.
• Silvio Di Benedetto blogs about Azure File Sync v14

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 the General Availability of Native support for WebSocket APIs, and Azure App Service - Diagnostic settings feature, and Azure App Service Environment v3 support for Windows Containers and the Public preview of GraphQL passthrough support in Azure API Management
• Tobias Zimmergren (@zimmergren) writes about Quickly discover any expiring certificates for Azure App Services

Azure Virtual Desktop

Covering: Azure Virtual Desktop

• The Azure Updates Team announces Autoscale public preview is now available for Azure Virtual Desktop and Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI public preview is now available

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.
• Azure CNAB Quickstarts Library - You can deploy to the Cloud, on Prem and on the Edge using CNAB & Porter. This library provides a number of quickstart templates to help you get started, fast!
• Power BI Weekly - Interested in Power BI? Sign up to our sister newsletter Power BI Weekly to receive all the week's Power BI news.
• Azure Resources - A fantastic collection of resources contained in this repo. Issue a PR if you have resources to share. Managed by Azure MVP Gregor Suttie.
• 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"!