Microsoft Azure News - August 2024 - BAUG

Monthly Azure news roundup as compiled and delivered to the Brisbane Azure User Group by Damien Berry

1. @ BrisbaneAzureUG meetup.com/Brisbane-Azure-User-Group For those joining online – the presentations will commence shortly after 6pm QLD time

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3. Microsoft Azure News August 2024

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5. getting involved

6. Upcoming Presentations Month Presenter(s) Topic January 2024 Todd Whitehead Building your own copilot with Microsoft Copilot Studio February 2024 Jia Ji Explore Azure Integration March 2024 Bernie White Everything you need to know about Bicep in 2024 April 2024 Todd Whitehead Dan Toomey Creating Chaos in Azure Copilot for Logic Apps? May 2024 Alastair Wilkinson IaC - An Intro to Azure Networking and Terraform June 2024 Damien Berry Getting your Blazor Out the Front Door with App Service July 2024 Bernie White Running with Azure Deployment Stacks August 2024 Sebastian Gräf Dan Toomey Deploy Azure OpenAI with Azure Verified Modules INTEGRATE 2024 session September 2024 Bronwen Zande From Dormant to Dynamic: Upcycling Documents with AI October 2024 November 2024 December 2024 Got Topic? Send message on Meetup or email [email protected]

7. updates

8. .NET 8 in Azure Functions (GA) The in-process model for .NET applications on Azure Functions now supports .NET 8. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Azure-Functions-supports-NET8-using-in-process-model

9. Redis extension for Azure Functions (GA) The Redis extension for Azure Functions is now generally available. The extension can be used as a trigger in Azure Functions, allowing Redis to initiate a serverless workflow. The Redis extension also supports Azure Functions input and output bindings https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Redis-Extension-Azure-Functions

10. Admin for Spring in Azure Container Apps (GA) You can use managed Java components to access platform features for your apps that you would otherwise have to manage yourself. Allowing you to monitor and manage your Spring applications with ease. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Preview-Managed-Java-component-in-Azure-Container-Apps

11. Managed identity for scaling rules in Azure Container Apps (GA) You can now use managed identities in your scale rules to authenticate with supported Azure services. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Preview-Managed-identity-support-for-scaling-rules-ACA

12. Azure Container Apps support for peer-to-peer encryption (GA) Support for environment level peer-to-peer Transport Level Security (TLS) By enabling the peer-to-peer encryption feature, all network traffic within the environment will be TLS encrypted with a private certificate that is valid within the Azure Container Apps environment scope. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/GA-ACA-support-for-peer-to-peer-encryption

13. Key Vault certificates in Azure container Apps (GA) Support for Key Vault certificates in Azure container Apps is now generally available. You can now use Azure Key Vault to store and manage your own TLS/SSL certificates for Azure Container Apps at the environment level. You can do so using the Azure portal as well as the Azure CLI. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Support-for-Azure-Key-Vault-certificates-ACA

14. App Configuration references on App Service (GA) With App Configuration, you can centrally manage configuration and feature settings for multiple services in a single configuration store and seamlessly access them through references in your environment variables. @Microsoft.AppConfiguration(Endpoint=https://myAppConfigStore.azconfig.io; Key= myAppConfigKey ) https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/app-config-ref-ga

15. Auxiliary Logs Plan (Preview) $5.112 per GB $1.110 per GB $0.222 per GB https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Azure-Monitor-Auxiliary-Logs

16. Azure Monitor Basic Logs – new features (GA) Extending the included interactive retention period from 8 days to 30 days. Adjusting the supported query language capabilities on Basic Logs from: reduced KQL to full KQL on a single table lookup of additional data in Analytics tables. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Azure-Monitor-Basic-Logs-Updates

17. resources

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20. On Demand Training - Updates

21. Azure Blog: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/ Scott Hanselman’s Blog: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/azure-friday/ John Savill https://www.youtube.com/@NTFAQGuy Blogs

22. tonight

23. Running with Azure Deployment Stacks Dan Toomey will give us a helicopter view of all the changes in Logic Apps, Service Bus, Event Hubs, API Management, and API Center . Then Microsoft’s Sebastian Gräf will teach us how to deploy Azure OpenAI with Azure Verified Modules (AVM) using Bicep and Terraform.