First of all, Happy New Year! As usual, here you have the latest innovations all around Microsoft Azure. December was not as busy as other months, but still plenty of interesting stuff such as the new Lv2 VMs, lots of innovation around containers including the Open Service Broker and exciting new features in HDInsight. Enjoy reading! Please go to https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/topics/announcements/ for an updated list of Azure anouncements.
Azure generic
Management
- New Azure management and cost savings capabilities
- Java SDK v1.4: Manage Azure Container Service (AKS) and more
- Dedicated URL for Azure Shell (Bash and PS): https://shell.azure.com
IaaS
- General availability of Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner for VMware and Hyper-V
- Compute:
- Networking:
- Storage:
Containers
- Connect your applications to Azure with Open Service Broker for Azure
- Azure brings new Serverless and DevOps capabilities to the Kubernetes community
- Virtual Kubelet
- Open Source of the “Open Service Broker for Azure”: Open Service Broker API
- Kashti: New dashboard and visualization tool for Kubernetes pipelines
- Partners enhance Kubernetes support for Azure and Windows Server Containers
- Heptio for Kubernetes DR
- Tigera for Windows Container Security
- Windows Server Containers beta support in Kubernetes 1.9
Security and IAM
Apps
- Free eBook – The Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Azure now available
- Bringing hybrid cloud Java and Spring apps to Azure and Azure Stack
- Pivotal Cloud Foundry in Azure Stack (beta)
- Lighter Image for PCF in Azure Marketplace
- Azure Services in Spring Initializr
- Using Visual Studio Code to develop and debug Java Functions
- Spring Boot extensions for Visual Studio Code
- Designing, building, and operating microservices on Azure
Data
- SQL DB:
- HDInsight:
IoT
AI
Thanks for reading!
Cloudtrooper 