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

1. @BrisbaneAzureUG
meetup.com/Brisbane-Azure-User-Group

2. Microsoft Azure News
August 2019

3. Sponsorship Update

5. Upcoming Presentations
Month Presenter(s) Topic
December 2018 Various UNCONVENTION 2018.1
January 2019 Heinrich Braasch Low-and-slow Weber control from anywhere in the world using Azure IOT
February 2019 Troy Hunt Clouds, Codes and Cybers
March 2019 Ryan Davis How not to translate a videogame
April 2019 Errol Leboydre SignalR as a Service
May 2019 Adam Stephensen Exploring Container Offerings in Azure
June 2019 Dan Toomey
Ben Parker
ISE: Integration Service Environments
Azure Optimisations; Ask for your EOFY Bonus
July 2019 Bronwen Zande 50 Shades of Grey - Ethics In A World of Ever-Growing AI
August 2019 Sonia Cuff Governance & Compliance in Azure
September 2019 Todd Whitehead Azure, DevOps and the Commodore 64
October 2019 Namit Bhandari RPA and UiPath Azure Automation
November 2019 David Alzamendi Storing Information in Azure, from A to Z
Got Topic?
Send message on Meetup or email baug@outlook.com.au

7. GitHub Actions for Azure Preview
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/announcing-the-preview-of-azure-actions-for-github/
azure/actions (login): Authenticate with an Azure subscription.
azure/appservice-actions: Deploy apps to Azure App Services using the features Web Apps and Web Apps for
Containers.
azure/container-actions: Connect to container
registries, including Docker Hub and
Azure Container Registry,
as well as build and push container images.
azure/k8s-actions: Connect and deploy to a
Kubernetes cluster, including
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

8. Azure Data Share Preview
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/announcing-preview-of-azure-data-share/
Simple and safe data sharing with governance security and customer T’s and C’s

9. Azure Monitor for containers with
Prometheus (Preview)
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/azure-monitor-for-containers-with-prometheus-now-in-preview/
With the Azure Monitor integration, no
Prometheus server is needed. You just need
to expose the Prometheus end-point
through your exporters or pods
(application), and the containerized agent
for Azure Monitor for containers can scrape
the metrics for you.

10. Dedicated Host Preview
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/introducing-azure-dedicated-host/
Place Azure VMs on a specific and dedicated physical server.
Enables you to run your organization’s
Linux and Windows virtual machines on
single-tenant physical servers
They allow you to gain further control over:
• The underlying hardware infrastructure (host type)
• Processor brand, capabilities, and more
• Number of cores
• Type and size of the Azure Virtual Machines you want to deploy
“Updated Microsoft licensing terms for dedicated hosted cloud services.”

11. Bot Framework
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/conversational-ai-updates-for-july-2019/
Voice-first bot applications: Direct Line Speech preview
Direct Line Speech
Direct Line Speech channel is a native implementation of
speech for mobile applications and IoT devices,
with support for Text-to-speech, Speech-to-text,
and custom wake words.
Bot Framework SDK 4.6 preview

12. Azure Security Center for IoT (GA)
Azure Security Centre allows you
to protect your end-to-end IoT
deployment by identifying and
responding to emerging threats,
as well as finding issues in your
configurations before attackers
can use them to compromise
your deployment.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/announcing-general-availability-for-the-azure-security-center-for-iot/

13. Azure Archive Storage Pricing
Dropped Azure Archive Storage prices by up to 50 percent in some regions
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/pricing/details/storage/blobs/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/we-re-making-azure-archive-storage-better-with-new-lower-pricing/

14. Azure NVv4 VM’s (GA)
NVv4 offers unprecedented GPU resourcing flexibility, giving customers more choice than ever before.
Customers can select from VMs with a whole GPU all the way down to 1/8th of a GPU.
Customers can securely run workloads on virtual GPUs with dedicated GPU frame buffer.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/introducing-nvv4-azure-virtual-machines-for-gpu-visualization-workloads/

15. Azure NVv4 VM’s (GA)
45-50 percent more than comparable x86 alternatives and three times faster than what most HPC customers
have in their datacentres today.
Across a single virtual machine scale set, customers can run a single MPI job on HBv2 Virtual Machines at up to
36,000 cores.
For our largest customers, HBv2 Virtual Machines support up to 80,000 cores for single jobs.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/introducing-the-new-hbv2-azure-virtual-machines-for-high-performance-computing/

17. Azure Australia Slack Team!
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20. On Demand Training - Updates
https://aka.ms/learn/
•Azure Fundamentals
•Introduction to Azure
•Create Serverless Logic with Azure Functions
www.pluralsight.com
•Designing a Hybrid Cloud in Azure
•Docker for Web Developers
•Azure AD for Developers
www.opsgility.com
•Azure For AWS Experts
•Deploying Hybrid Identitity Solutions Using Azure AD
•Monitoring Apps with Application Insights

23. Governing Your Azure Environment
Sonia Cuff connects with worldwide technical communities, as a Senior
Cloud Advocate for Microsoft. She uses her 20+ years of IT Ops
experience in Enterprise, government and small business roles to
educate, empower and upskill IT professionals in Cloud operations &
captures feedback on how to make Microsoft Azure products even
better.
Sonia Cuff