Melbourne Azure Nights User Group February 2018 - Update slides http://www.azurenights.com

1. Proudly Sponsored by

2. Todays Topic:
Azure Container Services (AKS) - Kubernetes
Jorge Arteiro – Azure MVP | Senior Application DevOps container specialist
• House keeping
• The News
• Todays Breakout Session:
AGENDA

3. MEET THE TEAM
Michael Frank Lace Lofranco Adam Simmonds Janaka Rangama

4. The News

5. Over 200 News items since our last Meetup in November 2017
My Highlights:
• Spectre and Meltdown happened – All Azure Servers have been updated in the first 2 weeks of 2018
• New Azure SKU NCv3 - powered by a NVIDIA Tesla V100GPUs
• New VM SKU Lv2 – powered by AMD’s EPYC processors
• Designed for storage intense workloads will deliver higher IOPS
• Azure Reserved VM Instances are GA
• one or three year term – up to 72% cost savings vs pay-as-you-go
• VMware virtualization will be available in Azure
• bare metal solution that runs co-located with other Azure services
• Azure Migrate is GA
• help to ensure your VM will run in Azure, what size it should be and how much it will cost
• Augmented rules for NSGs are now available
• making managing NSGs a lot easier
NEWS IT PRO

6. SERVICE BUS DEV
Created Service Type Note Context Reference
2/12/2018 SQL Database Preview Features Here are the latest updates to the public preview of Azure Database
Migration Service: Support for additional regions. You can now provision
Azure Database Migration Service in the Southeast Asia and West India.
Also, provisioning in a specific resource group, auto-pause functionality, and
improved guidance on exceptions and failures.
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2/09/2018 App Services Updated Features Monthly update to App Services has landed including refreshed UX for App
Settings, MySQL in app data import, a new FAQ in blade and web apps on
linux support for .net core 2
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2/08/2018 Virtual Machines Region Update Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) customers can now take advantage of the
Azure M/V3/B-series of VM sizes available in the UK South region. We’re
also excited to announce that Azure is the first hyperscale cloud provider to
offer VMs optimized for large in-memory workloads such as SAP HANA in
the UK.
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2/08/2018 SQL Database General Availability Virtual Network Service Endpoints for Azure SQL Database is now generally
available in all Azure regions. By using Virtual Network Service Endpoints,
you can allow traffic only from selected virtual networks and subnets,
creating a secure network boundary for your data. Traffic from your virtual
network to the services will always remain on the Microsoft Azure network
backbone. With the GA, we now support SQL service endpoints on the App
Service Environment subnets.
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2/07/2018 CosmosDB General Availability Azure Cosmos DB Graph API is the first cloud database to provide graph
functionality over a globally distributed managed service. This has enabled
users to explore new ways of consuming their data with the use of the
Gremlin language while still benefitting from global distribution, elastic
scalability in storage and throughput, guaranteed low latency, consistency
models, and enterprise-ready SLAs of Azure Cosmos DB. In December,
Azure Cosmos DB Graph API became generally available. This release
includes several critical updates to the performance and latency, as well as
expanding the application platforms that can be used with it.
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2/07/2018 Search Updated Features Today we are happy to announce performance upgrades to all newly
provisioned services in all paid service tiers in Azure Search. For the exact
same price, these upgraded Azure Search services have roughly double the
compute power of the previous hardware configuration that backed Azure
Search. Additionally, services in the Standard tier began using SSD storage
under the hood, compared to HDD storage used previously.
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2/07/2018 App Services New Features The App Service team have been hard at work creating a new create and
deploy experience for Azure App Service. We released a new Azure CLI
extension that adds a new command called new. The new command
enables the user to create and deploy their Node.js app using a single
command, we check for the existence of a package.json file in the code root
path to indicate it is a Node.js app.
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2/07/2018 API Management Retiring Features After April 1st, 2018, the Azure API Management Publisher portal will largely
be no longer be accessible. Please use the Azure portal to perform all
administrative tasks after this date. The developer portal will remain
available. All content management capabilities of the developer portal, in
addition to Analytics and Applications, will also remain available to
customers.
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2/07/2018 API Management Preview Features We are launching a public preview of the capability to have tags applied to
your APIs and operations. This enables the organization of large lists – both
in terms of management and presentation on the developer portal. Tags can
be applied during manual editing or they can be imported as part of an
OpenAPI Specification. When exporting, only tags that are set on operations
will be part of the specification, as tags on the API are not supported by the
standard.
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2/06/2018 Automation Updated Features The Azure Automation service has been upgraded to support PowerShell
modules that have a dependency on .NET Framework 4.6 or lower running
from the service. This will not have any impact on existing runbook jobs.
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2/06/2018 Azure Active
Directory
Retiring Features Azure Active Directory B2C UserJourney reports, currently in preview, are
now deprecated. In their place, the AAD Audit Events, B2C category have
been enriched to provide more timely updates in a common approach for
audit events that is cross-compatible across all Azure Active Directory.
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2/06/2018 Cognitive
Services
Preview Features We are delighted to announce a new capability in Microsoft Video Indexer:
Brand Detection from speech and from visual text! If you are not yet familiar
with Video Indexer, you may want to take a look at a few examples on our
portal. Having brands in the video index gives you insights on names of
products and organizations, which appear in a video or audio asset without
having to watch it. Particularly, it enables you to search over large amounts
of video and audio. Customers find Brand Detection useful in a wide variety
of business scenarios such as contents archive and discovery, contextual
advertising, social media analysis, retail compete analysis and many more.
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Will be published on the meetup site tomorrow

7. Global Azure Bootcamp 21st April 2018
AGL - 699 Bourke Street
Registration Opening Later this month:
Call of Content is LIVE till the end of the month:
https://sessionize.com/global-azure-bootcamp-melbourne-2018
UPCOMING EVENTS

8. Roadmap:
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/roadmap/
Blogs:
http://www.azurenights.com
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog
http://blog.azure.com
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu
http://www.hanselman.com/blog
http://www.azurefieldnotes.com
http://www.empired.com/blog
Virtual Academy:
http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com
Yammer:
http://www.yammer.com/ITProNetwork
Current and historic issues:
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/status
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/status/history
ARM Templates:
http://github.com/Azure/azure-powershell
http://github.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates
Podcasts:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Azure-Friday
http://azpodcast.azurewebsites.net
http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Cloud+Cover
http://www.microsoftcloudshow.com
KEEPING UP TO DATE

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Next Meetup:
March 14th, Microsoft Freshwater Place
Scott Holden (Azure Technical Solution Professional – Microsoft)
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THANK YOU

10. BREAK OUT SESSION
Azure Container Services (AKS) - Kubernetes
Jorge Arteiro - Azure MVP
Senior Application DevOps container specialist