The Azure Podcast Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young and Sujit D'Mello

Mark Eisenberg joins Cale and Sujit to dissect the Azure-related updates announced at the Ignite Conference in November 2023. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode480.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/bbt4wTjo7G4 Resources: https://news.microsoft.com/ignite-2023-book-of-news/ Mark Russinovich - Inside AI Innovations

Today the team chat to Keith Howling, a Principal Technical Specialist at Microsoft, on the topic of Platform Engineering with Radius, an open source app deployment engine. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode479.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/JWCaXfTf77A Resources: Radius: RadApp Introducing Radius: A new open-source application platform for cloud-native apps Other news: General availability: Rate limit rules for Application Gateway web application firewall Export cost using focus Azure support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 will end by 31 October 2024 Experiment templates now available in Azure Chaos Studio General availability: Start and stop load testing faults in Azure Chaos Studio General availability: Azure Functions supports .NET 8 in the isolated worker model App Service end-to-end encryption for Linux multi-tenant (preview) Azure Monitor Logs archive provides up to 12 years of retention

The team catches up with Nithya Sivam and Joshua Min who explain how Azure is democratizing access to the self-help content accessible in the Azure Portal. The Help API makes it easier to integrate this self-help into your own workflow.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode478.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/Depmijm4YUg Resources: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/help/?view=rest-help-2023-09-01-preview   Other updates: Realize the full potential of your cloud investment with Azure optimization https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/realize-the-full-potential-of-your-cloud-investment-with-azure-optimization/   Building for the future: The enterprise generative AI application lifecycle with Azure AI https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/building-for-the-future-the-enterprise-generative-ai-application-lifecycle-with-azure-ai/   Join Microsoft at Azure Day & KubeCon North America 2023 in Chicago! https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/join-microsoft-at-azure-day-amp-kubecon-north-america-2023-in/ba-p/3958610   Azure Elastic SAN updates: Snapshots, Security, and Usability | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Preview: Azure Container Storage in AKS | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure   Public preview: Application Gateway IPv6 support | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure  General Availability: Azure Advisor recommendation improves the reliability of Azure Disks with Zone Redundant Storage | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Software Engineers Ian Jensen and Michael Litman from Microsoft's ISE group, explain the other 'clouds' in Azure. They dive into the Power Platform and Dynamics 365 suite and explain the use-cases for each of them and how you can use low-code or high-code to take advantage of these clouds without having to worry about specific resources in Azure.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode477.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/9EAl_tCAoMs Resources: Power Platform Terraform Provider: https://aka.ms/PowerPlatTerraformQuickstarts SolutionOps Playbook: https://playbook.microsoft.com Power Platform Pipelines: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/alm/pipelines ALM Accelerator for Power Platform: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/guidance/alm-accelerator/overview Updated ERP Development Experience: https://aka.ms/ERPDevDeploy , then https://aka.ms/ERPDevConfig ERP Git guidance: https://aka.ms/XppGit   Other updates: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-update-channel-for-basic-standard-and-premium-caches/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-builtin-azure-monitor-alerts-for-azure-site-recovery/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-bastion-developer-public-preview/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-default-rule-set-21-for-regional-waf-with-application-gateway/

Balaji Sankaran, General Manager of Azure HDInsight, joins us to share the latest announcement from HDInsight - an updated, managed HDInsight service that runs on AKS, giving a better experience for hosting opensource analytics workloads in the cloud.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode476.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/RiQzpkZeT9c Resources: HD Insight on AKS: Manage your big data needs with HDInsight on AKS Enterprise scale open-source analytics on containers (Video) Get started with HDInsights on AKS Get in touch - Ask HDInsight Other news: Announcing Microsoft Playwright Testing: Scalable end-to-end testing for modern web apps The Microsoft Azure Incubations Team launches Radius, a new open application platform for the cloud

Alice Gibbons, Customer Success Engineer and Kendall Roden, Product Manager, both from Diagrid, talk about the companies SaaS offering that allows easier monitoring and management of DAPR installations on AKS and any Kubernetes service.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode475.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/iIjUs1Z-g4I Resources: Conductor links: 5 min intro: https://www.diagrid.io/conductor#video-section book a demo: https://www.diagrid.io/conductor Run Dapr in production with Confidence webinar: https://youtu.be/88VJZ0K09PM?feature=shared   Other Updates: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-data-explorer-addon-for-splunk/