Microsoft Azure News - October 2024 - BAUG

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

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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 Wayne Hoggett Azure Tools You Might Not Have Heard Of November 2024 Vivek Rao Using AI & Automation for Application Assurance December 2024 Adam Stephenson Title Accelerating building AI apps using Azure Open AI Got Topic? Send message on Meetup or email [email protected]

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8. Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Linux OS) (Preview) Site Recovery replicates workloads running on physical and virtual machines (VMs) from a primary site to a secondary location. This private preview is available for Azure Trusted launch VMs running Linux OS. Azure Site Recovery support for Trusted launch VM running Windows OS is already generally available. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/private-preview-azure-site-recovery-support-for-azure-trusted-launch-vms-linux-os

9. Logic Apps Standard – Low Code document parsing and chunking (Preview) Ingest documents or files, including both structured and unstructured data, into AI Search without writing or managing any code! https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Low-Code-RAG-ingestion-with-built-in-document-parsing-and-chunking-in-Logic-Apps-Standard

10. Java on Azure Container Apps (GA) leverage managed Java components for seamless app-to-app communication. Enhance your monitor and diagnostic experience with managed Spring Boot Admin, dynamic logger, and embedded Java metrics in Azure Monitor. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Java-on-Azure-Container-Apps

11. Azure Web PubSub – MQTT support (GA) Azure Web PubSub now supports MQTT capabilities (in public preview). https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Azure-Web-PubSub-MQTT-support-now-available-in-public-preview

12. Azure AKS Virtual machines node pools support (preview) Long-term support for version 1.27 and 1.30 (GA) FIPS mutability support (GA) With virtual machines node pools, Azure Kubernetes Service directly manages the provisioning and bootstrapping of every single node. AKS now supports 1.27 version as well as 1.30 version in LTS. When you update an existing node pool, the node image will change from the current image to the recommended FIPS image of the same OS SKU. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Virtual-machines-node-pools-support-in-AKS https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Long-term-support-for-version-1-27-and-1-30-in-AKS https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/FIPS-mutability-support-in-AKS-GA

13. Azure Functions .NET 9 support in Linux plans (GA) Azure Functions now supports .NET 9 preview 7 for applications using the isolated worker model and running on Linux plans. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Azure-Functions-NET-9-support-in-Linux-20plans

14. Azure App Service – Extended support for PHP 8.1 (GA) PHP has updated their release cycles to include the extension of security support for PHP 8.1 which will now be supported until December 31 2025. See PHP supported versions for more information. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Php-81-extension

15. Azure confidential VMs with NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs (GA) These VMs combine the hardware-based data-in-use protection capabilities of 4th generation AMD EPYCTM processor based confidential VMs with the performance of NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs. By enabling confidential computing on GPUs, Azure offers customers more options and flexibility to run their workload securely and efficiently on the cloud. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/GA-confidential-VMs-with-NVIDIA-H100-Tensor-Core-GPUs

16. Application Gateway for Containers – gRPC and frontend mTLS (GA) Mutual Transport Layer Security (MTLS) is a process that relies on certificates to encrypt communications and identify clients to a service. This enables Application Gateway for Containers to further increase its security posture by only trusting connections from authenticated devices. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/grpc-and-frontend-mutual-authentication-available-on-application-gateway-for-containers

17. Azure Cache for Redis - Smaller Enterprise tier cache (GA) Get started with Azure Cache for Redis with the E1 cache instance. This option gives you a lower cost starting point to use the expanded features of Redis Enterprise, including vector search and storage. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Smaller-Enterprise-tier-cache-instance-for-Azure-Cache-for-Redis

18. Azure PostgreSQL - Single Server to Flexible Server (GA) You can now use the online migration option to migrate from Azure Database for PostgreSQL –Single Server to Flexible Server. Online migration is the ideal choice when you have large databases and require limited application downtime. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Online-migration-from-Azure-Database-for-PostgreSQL-Single-Server-to-Flexible-Server

19. Azure Database for PostgreSQL Latest PostgreSQL minor versions (GA) PostgreSQL minor versions 16.4, 15.8, 14.13, 13.16, 12.20, and 17 Beta 3 are now supported by Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Latest-PostgreSQL-minor-versions-supported-by-Azure-Database-for-PostgreSQL

20. Azure Functions support for PowerShell 7.4 (GA) You can now develop apps using PowerShell 7.4 locally and deploy them to all Azure Functions plans. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Azure-Functions-Support-for-PowerShell-7-4

21. Azure SQL Database Hyperscale (GA) Azure SQL Database Hyperscale elastic pools are now generally available. Hyperscale elastic pools enable software as a service (SaaS) developers to optimize the price performance ratio for a group of databases, while delivering predictable performance and elasticity for each database. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/Azure-SQL-Database-Hyperscale-elastic-pools

22. Azure IoT Edge (GA) Azure IoT Edge now supports new version releases of Ubuntu Server, Debian, and Yocto . Ubuntu Server 24.04, Debian 12, Yocto Scarthgap https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/v2/IoT-Edge-support-for-Ubuntu-Server-24-04-Debian-12-and-Yocto-Scarthgap

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29. Azure Tools You Might Not Have Heard Of Wayne Hoggett In this talk you will discover community and Microsoft-provided tools that make working with Azure just that bit easier. Tools that can help you architect, plan, design, and learn Azure. Wayne Hoggett is a Senior Author at Pluralsight. Wayne creates courses, hands-on labs, and assessments for the Azure hybrid cloud and related technologies, including topics on cloud adoption, certification, networking, infrastructure as code, and application deployment. Wayne has about 20 years’ experience in Microsoft infrastructure and Cloud and is a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT).