Overview of updates to the Microsoft Azure platform in August
The news digest of the Microsoft Azure cloud platform contains key announcements and content for developers, IT professionals, and all professionals interested in cloud technologies and the Azure platform. Previous editions of the digest can always be found at the following link . This digest has a lot of loud news and interesting content!
Announcements
Now you can test websites without creating an Azure account ! - Without specifying a credit card, without creating an Azure account. All you need is a Microsoft Account.
The version of the legendary Process Explorer in the cloud - now on the management page of each website in Azure Websites, you can enable Process Explorer and watch what is happening with the processes. For obvious reasons, the inclusion of Process Explorer will lead to greater workload, but you just see how beautiful it is.
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Preview : DocumentDB is a cloud (and, therefore, highly scalable) service giving Document DB as a service with schema-free.
Azure Backup has become available in Japan East and West - if you want to back up something to Japan using the convenient Azure Backup service (which integrates into either Windows Server Backup backup equipment or DPM), you can proceed.
On the new portal, SQL Database management functionality has been added - interface update - over time, the functionality continues to migrate from the old portal to the new one . In the interface update, there are firewall configuration elements for SQL DB, auditing, and, probably, the favorite functionality of all users - resetting the administrator password.
General Availability : Mobile Services . NET Backend - sometime backend for applications and platforms that support HTTP (we officially support Windows Phone, Windows 8/1, Android and iPhone with all instructions and SDKs, but you can easily create a custom REST API using Mobile Services , of course, used with any more or less HTTP-supporting and basic client principles, it was possible to configure scripts only on Node.js. In this update, .NET support came out of the preview - write API call handlers to .NET and ASP.NET Web API.
VM Readiness Assessment tool is a utility for automatic inventory of local infrastructure and creating a report based on the inventory of what and how to migrate to Azure. Extremely useful.
Azure Search : preview - search-as-a-service that can be integrated into the application. No need to use full-text search, deploy and manage infrastructure. It looks like a “search unit” with a certain benchmark queries-per-second and document count. In the content section there is a link to the introduction.
CustomScript extension and VMA access extension - extensions for virtual machines with Linux on board. They enable you to perform various scripts and actions, for example, resetting a password, SSH configuration, etc.
Meanwhile, a new template has appeared in the virtual machine templates on the new portal - SQL Server AlwaysOn . Full Automation of AlwaysOn Deployment is a powerful tool. Instead of wasting time on deployment, create and get a ready-made environment from a template.
Service Bus Explorer - new version . Used by many developers to simplify working with the Service Bus. The new version adds support for Windows Server Service Bus, Event Hubs, Notification Hubs, and more.
WebJobs on the new portal - another interface update - WebJobs are available on the new portal . You can read more about how to use it from the development guru - SychevIgor and another guru Scott Hanselman . And about what was new in the latest update - here .
The new version of the client library for Azure Storage - in the latest version of a whole bunch of news, not only for .NET, but also for versions of the library for Java, Android and Node. There are many changes, changelog can be read on the link.
New version of AzCopy v2.5.0 - AzCopy is a utility with which you can quickly and with different settings upload content to Azure storage. The new version supports downloading an unlimited number of files at the same time, as well as the installation of SAS (Shared Access Signature, content signature to regulate access to it). Download here . Read detailed instructions here .
Open Source News
There was no open source news in August. :(
Useful content
Backup Notes - a selection of materials, links and small tips on the issue of backups on Microsoft Azure.
How to migrate applications from one region to another from the experience of real customers - says Senior PM Shaun Tinline-Jones, who is in the Azure Customer Advisory Team, working with large and complex projects.
Website features that you might not know about, but knowing about them is useful - from the Bilal Alam development manager about Azure Web Sites PDF generation features using SQL Server Reporting Services and support for downloading PFX certificate files so that applications can These client certificates are used for authentication on other HTTP services.
Solving problems with throttling in Azure applications - our architect Kirk Evans broadcasts patterns of throttling control solutions.
How to do wonders using the Azure Resource Manager Tools Preview - how to use the Visual Studio 2013 Resource Manager, with which you can create deployment templates in JSON, describing what you need to deploy, thereby greatly simplifying management, says Sr. SDET Matt Sampson.
And this is for Linux lovers. How to automate some tasks for virtual machines on Linux with the help of custom scripts. Here .
Sr.PM Lead Atul Sikaria will tell you how to migrate large amounts of data to the Azure Files service . The Azure Files service solves issues with connecting data stores in the cloud via SMB - like network storage.
Using the Redis service on Azure
Encrypting a Virtual Machine Disk with CloudLink SecureVM — Senior PM Bryon Surace, a guru of Hyper-V, talks about how to encrypt a virtual machine disk in the cloud using BitLocker, Linux native encryption, and much more. Video on the same topic - YouTube : “CloudLink SecureVM for Microsoft Azure“ and TechEd : “Security and Microsoft Azure IaaS”.
In the same piggy bank security - architectural guide for Microsoft Antimalware for Azure, on the security aspects for Cloud Services and virtual machines.
Setting up idle timeout for Azure Load Balancer is one of the new features. They talk about TCP support for Keep-Alive and in general about how to act with the balancer in situations with long connections.
Best practices on using Azure websites from Hanselmann and colleagues - how to avoid risks from falls, how to properly prepare a website design and in general about issues of an architectural plan.
Web Site Deployment Slots - Hanselman and PM Daria Grigoriu are discussing a new feature of web sites - deployment slots - development, testing and preproduction.
Azure Search — an introduction — an introduction to a search-as-a-service that is already used in a real loaded environment to improve search — on Channel 9 itself.
Bundle of links to content related to Docker and Kubernetes, including the Microsoft-developed tool for visualizing Kubernetes:
http : // channel 9. msdn . com / Shows / Edge / Edge - Show -117- Docker - on - Azure
http : // channel 9. msdn . com / Shows / TechNet + Radio / TechNet - Radio - Part -11- Accelerate - DevOps - with - the - Cloud - Bringing - Docker - Online - using - PowerShell - DSC
azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/08/28/hackathon-with-kubernetes-on-azure
msopentech.com/blog/2014/08/28/docker-containers-on-microsoft-azure-with-kubernetes-visualizer
Introducing Azure RemoteApp - a video on how to use RemoteApp. RemoteApp simplifies the task of deploying software in the cloud, which is accessed through a client. That is such an analogue of RDS, only as a service. You deploy the application, users download the client for any popular platform, launch it, launch the application (which runs on the server in the cloud) and use it. Mobility!
Below you will find links to resources that will help you in using the Microsoft cloud platform:
Free 30-day trial of Microsoft Azure;
Free access to Microsoft Azure resources for startups , partners , teachers, MSDN subscribers ;
Microsoft Azure Development Center (azurehub.ru) - scripts, tutorials, examples, recommendations on the choice of services and development on Microsoft Azure;
Latest Microsoft Azure News - Twitter.com/windowsazure_ru .
We will be happy to answer your questions at azurerus@microsoft.com . And we are waiting for you in the Microsoft Azure Community on Facebook . Here you will find experts (don't forget to ask them questions), photos, and lots and lots of news.
That's all! Thank you and see you soon.
Announcements
Now you can test websites without creating an Azure account ! - Without specifying a credit card, without creating an Azure account. All you need is a Microsoft Account.
The version of the legendary Process Explorer in the cloud - now on the management page of each website in Azure Websites, you can enable Process Explorer and watch what is happening with the processes. For obvious reasons, the inclusion of Process Explorer will lead to greater workload, but you just see how beautiful it is.
')
Preview : DocumentDB is a cloud (and, therefore, highly scalable) service giving Document DB as a service with schema-free.
Azure Backup has become available in Japan East and West - if you want to back up something to Japan using the convenient Azure Backup service (which integrates into either Windows Server Backup backup equipment or DPM), you can proceed.
On the new portal, SQL Database management functionality has been added - interface update - over time, the functionality continues to migrate from the old portal to the new one . In the interface update, there are firewall configuration elements for SQL DB, auditing, and, probably, the favorite functionality of all users - resetting the administrator password.
General Availability : Mobile Services . NET Backend - sometime backend for applications and platforms that support HTTP (we officially support Windows Phone, Windows 8/1, Android and iPhone with all instructions and SDKs, but you can easily create a custom REST API using Mobile Services , of course, used with any more or less HTTP-supporting and basic client principles, it was possible to configure scripts only on Node.js. In this update, .NET support came out of the preview - write API call handlers to .NET and ASP.NET Web API.
VM Readiness Assessment tool is a utility for automatic inventory of local infrastructure and creating a report based on the inventory of what and how to migrate to Azure. Extremely useful.
Azure Search : preview - search-as-a-service that can be integrated into the application. No need to use full-text search, deploy and manage infrastructure. It looks like a “search unit” with a certain benchmark queries-per-second and document count. In the content section there is a link to the introduction.
CustomScript extension and VMA access extension - extensions for virtual machines with Linux on board. They enable you to perform various scripts and actions, for example, resetting a password, SSH configuration, etc.
Meanwhile, a new template has appeared in the virtual machine templates on the new portal - SQL Server AlwaysOn . Full Automation of AlwaysOn Deployment is a powerful tool. Instead of wasting time on deployment, create and get a ready-made environment from a template.
Service Bus Explorer - new version . Used by many developers to simplify working with the Service Bus. The new version adds support for Windows Server Service Bus, Event Hubs, Notification Hubs, and more.
WebJobs on the new portal - another interface update - WebJobs are available on the new portal . You can read more about how to use it from the development guru - SychevIgor and another guru Scott Hanselman . And about what was new in the latest update - here .
The new version of the client library for Azure Storage - in the latest version of a whole bunch of news, not only for .NET, but also for versions of the library for Java, Android and Node. There are many changes, changelog can be read on the link.
New version of AzCopy v2.5.0 - AzCopy is a utility with which you can quickly and with different settings upload content to Azure storage. The new version supports downloading an unlimited number of files at the same time, as well as the installation of SAS (Shared Access Signature, content signature to regulate access to it). Download here . Read detailed instructions here .
Open Source News
There was no open source news in August. :(
Useful content
Backup Notes - a selection of materials, links and small tips on the issue of backups on Microsoft Azure.
How to migrate applications from one region to another from the experience of real customers - says Senior PM Shaun Tinline-Jones, who is in the Azure Customer Advisory Team, working with large and complex projects.
Website features that you might not know about, but knowing about them is useful - from the Bilal Alam development manager about Azure Web Sites PDF generation features using SQL Server Reporting Services and support for downloading PFX certificate files so that applications can These client certificates are used for authentication on other HTTP services.
Solving problems with throttling in Azure applications - our architect Kirk Evans broadcasts patterns of throttling control solutions.
How to do wonders using the Azure Resource Manager Tools Preview - how to use the Visual Studio 2013 Resource Manager, with which you can create deployment templates in JSON, describing what you need to deploy, thereby greatly simplifying management, says Sr. SDET Matt Sampson.
And this is for Linux lovers. How to automate some tasks for virtual machines on Linux with the help of custom scripts. Here .
Sr.PM Lead Atul Sikaria will tell you how to migrate large amounts of data to the Azure Files service . The Azure Files service solves issues with connecting data stores in the cloud via SMB - like network storage.
Using the Redis service on Azure
Encrypting a Virtual Machine Disk with CloudLink SecureVM — Senior PM Bryon Surace, a guru of Hyper-V, talks about how to encrypt a virtual machine disk in the cloud using BitLocker, Linux native encryption, and much more. Video on the same topic - YouTube : “CloudLink SecureVM for Microsoft Azure“ and TechEd : “Security and Microsoft Azure IaaS”.
In the same piggy bank security - architectural guide for Microsoft Antimalware for Azure, on the security aspects for Cloud Services and virtual machines.
Setting up idle timeout for Azure Load Balancer is one of the new features. They talk about TCP support for Keep-Alive and in general about how to act with the balancer in situations with long connections.
Best practices on using Azure websites from Hanselmann and colleagues - how to avoid risks from falls, how to properly prepare a website design and in general about issues of an architectural plan.
Web Site Deployment Slots - Hanselman and PM Daria Grigoriu are discussing a new feature of web sites - deployment slots - development, testing and preproduction.
Azure Search — an introduction — an introduction to a search-as-a-service that is already used in a real loaded environment to improve search — on Channel 9 itself.
Bundle of links to content related to Docker and Kubernetes, including the Microsoft-developed tool for visualizing Kubernetes:
http : // channel 9. msdn . com / Shows / Edge / Edge - Show -117- Docker - on - Azure
http : // channel 9. msdn . com / Shows / TechNet + Radio / TechNet - Radio - Part -11- Accelerate - DevOps - with - the - Cloud - Bringing - Docker - Online - using - PowerShell - DSC
azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/08/28/hackathon-with-kubernetes-on-azure
msopentech.com/blog/2014/08/28/docker-containers-on-microsoft-azure-with-kubernetes-visualizer
Introducing Azure RemoteApp - a video on how to use RemoteApp. RemoteApp simplifies the task of deploying software in the cloud, which is accessed through a client. That is such an analogue of RDS, only as a service. You deploy the application, users download the client for any popular platform, launch it, launch the application (which runs on the server in the cloud) and use it. Mobility!
Below you will find links to resources that will help you in using the Microsoft cloud platform:
Free 30-day trial of Microsoft Azure;
Free access to Microsoft Azure resources for startups , partners , teachers, MSDN subscribers ;
Microsoft Azure Development Center (azurehub.ru) - scripts, tutorials, examples, recommendations on the choice of services and development on Microsoft Azure;
Latest Microsoft Azure News - Twitter.com/windowsazure_ru .
We will be happy to answer your questions at azurerus@microsoft.com . And we are waiting for you in the Microsoft Azure Community on Facebook . Here you will find experts (don't forget to ask them questions), photos, and lots and lots of news.
That's all! Thank you and see you soon.
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