 Good morning, Jay. How are you? Good morning? I got us a little background music this morning. Oh, hopefully it's DMA or Absolutely The platform that we work with stream yard just added some cool background music Which I think it was really really neat. They put all this like love royalty-free stuff in here. So you can have a little Little mood Yeah, right in mornings exactly So good morning, everybody. Hey, well, welcome back to AZ update. Always good to see all of you dirt Yeah, this season Jared Andrew the rest of y'all that are in the chat. Thank you so much. We always appreciate it So Pierre what a another big week around here There's been so many goings on whether it's you know in our team specifically or You know even what's going on at Microsoft. So we we've had a really good week. I think and We've got some new Azure stuff to talk about. We've got some new stories plenty to talk about today Yeah, and you just mentioned those new new things coming on in our team. We are I think Rick Announced it on Twitter, but let's go through it here. We now have two new team members Amy Coilyer and Vinicius I Always mispronounced his last name Apollonario It's your multi-lingual tongue that makes it a little bit easier to do that than my Mangle mouth Brooklyn Staten Island sounding voice. So well, I'm I'm it's my French tongue. I always end up mispronunciating Names that are of a different Ethnicity than mine. I don't even know if it's called ethnicity or nationality or anyway, like and I always had problems with German names and Like Spanish slash Portuguese name. Oh lucky. I can say my own so you're you're already got a leg up on me Well, I I don't even do my own because I have a very French name and I work with a lot of Anglo Saxon or Anglophone. Sorry the People and my name doesn't nobody very few can actually pronounce it properly in English So I've just anglicized the whole thing and just kind of It's now Roman and we other got we got some other big news aside from some new people part of our team Microsoft cloud Really really big earnings report The big stuff that I took from it We'll scroll down a little bit was Definitely the the business the windows OEM revenue increasing and then you know The amount that came from Azure revenue, I thought was pretty incredible. We've got such a diverse list of products The revenue increased by 29% driven by Azure and other cloud services grew by 46% So there is a want need and love for Azure out there. Yeah But before we get to the news There was a bit of a like Announcements this week and I think you wanted to cover that's about your friend of ours Yeah, one of our our dear friends that was part of the cloud advocacy Organization that was a huge proponent of dev ops able Wang You may not know you may know but he did pass away last summer from Tragically from cancer and we all miss him very very much and as you can see he was There's a series of awards from a group called the dev ops dozens That went out and they picked all these different categories, you know best podcast best transformation But they also had this year the top dev ops evangelist and posthumously they have awarded able who had to be elected by a peers essentially who you know, we're given an opportunity and he He won and if you didn't know, you know, he was a principal program manager He and Donna then did a lot of work together. I know he and Jessica did a lot of work together just spectacular person overall and any accolades that he can get Since we've lost him is is just tremendous. So Just wanted to put it out there for everybody to know our buddy able is still in everyone's thoughts Absolutely, absolutely All right, so we have a Full show this week We how much you get us started what what are you getting talking about today? Sure so Azure dev ops has had a few new releases of updates to the program the software and one of the new Releases is put out there the ability to copy a dashboard to a different team the same team or a different team project and Team and query configuration is updated in that new dashboard This minimizes work to build similar dashboards from scratch for multiple teams which save time save effort There's been some updates to pipelines YAML pipelines Setting a deny access to all pipelines is the default protected for default that for as the default Let's try that one more time setting deny access to pipelines as the default for protected resources Azure pipelines will also post a neutral status back to GitHub when it decides not to run validation because of a path exclusion rule so Pipelines has automatic retries consume inputs From another task in a decorator improvements to service connections usage history Important if you're doing some auditing default agent specification Which is now Windows 2019 for the classic pipelines Access to all pipelines like I said off by default and protected resources Deprecation is going to happen for Windows 2016 hosted images. So if you need to still test Your your Windows 2016 based builds you've got to use a a Provided agent you can't use one of good sorry for the the hosted images Isn't that just the image of the worker be that's basically executes? Yeah, yeah, yeah So it really has very little impact on the operation is mostly that like the machine So if you unless you were using something that was specific to 2016 You may have to retest some of your pipelines You'll have to potentially either change the version if you need to or if it's something that's specific To your software build and you have to do it on 2016 which I'll be honest with you I can't imagine now, but if that is the case you can set up a self-hosted pipeline with in Azure DevOps and Bring your own agent and essentially say all right builds are gonna go here. However, you know, the the Microsoft hosted agents tends to be one of the things that people really love about the service reducing the amount of work that you have to go into actually maintaining patching a build image and and like I said, there's some small Things like copy dashboard improvements and filter on null values in a burned-down chart widget so as your DevOps your place to organize deploy and Connect your work. I Know able would appreciate hearing all that and I know how hard that he and the rest of team worked on That product when it first got released Yeah, I'm especially Excited about the the new integration or the new way we're integrating with admin accounts because for from an operations 10 point, there's a couple things is Granting somebody access and To be an admin of a of a DevOps organization It becomes a little cumbersome when you when you have a lot of people or a large company But now I have been able to just put them into an AD group and having that AD group with all of the permission set already in GitHub Simplifies things really well plus it simplifies when somebody leaves where you remove them from AD and it automatically removes them from All of their github and and all of the other access. So I'm especially excited about that part Very very cool. So Improving your Azure DevOps experience always That team has always got something new to share You can check out the Azure DevOps blog on dev blogs if you want to keep up to date with all the new features that are Released. Yeah, and and it's DevOps. I've been working more and more with it I'm I'm seeing ops Like operations based in IT Usage with Azure DevOps more and more like Azure boards is as fantastic for keeping track of anything that needs to be done as your repo for anything that scripts or or Automation files or anything like that like And I'm started to kind of play around a little bit with pipeline to just kind of like Execute not deployments of things but execute like just code whether it's PowerShell or Azure CLI to affect my my endpoint but based on triggers based on web hooks based on a whole kinds of other things. So I've been looking at that and so I'm Optimistic that more and more Operations folks are gonna start looking at that because there's definitely a lot of value in there Yeah, absolutely, and we always need to find ways to automate make things easier and also be able to Keep track of our work, and I think that that's one of the the benefits of Azure DevOps. It's a pretty all in one type of situation that it's it's got a lot of things for a lot of different people who are either deploying software writing software auditing software securing you name it that there's all sorts of different Extensions plug-ins features that you can use to be able to maximize What Azure DevOps able to do? Yeah Okay, so next item on our list considering we're at almost a halfway mark is the Landing zone accelerators for Microsoft's Azure Arc enabled server This is not really a New or an announcement on the technical side, so there's no We're not announcing new functionality here, but we've were constantly being asked like What is the documentation for this scenario? What is the best approach or best that? best practice for for this scenario, so the landing zone is or accelerator is an area where you're actually Going to be able to go and look at all of the different Scenarios that they are so whether or not it's a hybrid first customer or Azure first customer or multi-cloud customer and look at all the documentation and all of the guidance on how you can organize and Configure Azure Arc enabled servers in that particular scenario to get the outcome that you're looking for so We are looking at Across multiple so I've seen some for Azure backup and I've seen some for Azure monitor and I've seen some like landing zone Where we're collecting all of that documentation in all of this like reference architectures and putting them into one single location That's easy to find because let's face it our documentation in the past has not always been the most straightforward Thing to navigate so let's go here and go here and refer to here and but now This is with this accelerator landing zone. This is getting much much better And this is all part of that cloud adoption framework for Azure the the ability to look at these types of pieces of documentation and Making determinations on what your best road for cloud adoption is. There's a lot of different scenarios use cases Strategic moves Tactical moves like the actual migrate so there's all and then of course Managing governing all your different deployments all super important and I just thought Any more information we give people on why they should move to Azure or how they should make their Their servers that are maybe in a data center Some sort of other cloud to make them available so that you can have them all within your Azure view Super super useful a great great product and in great bed We've tried to get documentation in one place for everybody. Yeah documentation is always very important and for the audience out there if you find something in a document on docs or anywhere else for From Microsoft on the upper right corner There's always a little button that says edit or feedback. Please press it and tell us what it is Considering that the way the documentation is all organized now on github What used to take six months to run a change through our documentation can now be turned turned on in a matter of days, so if you see something that That you're Not concerned about but you see something that's wrong a tie even if it's a typo Just hit that button and let us know and we try and very very hard to make that documentation better Absolutely, so we got another news item here for a new service or service improvement with in Azure which is general availability for Azure Key Vault increased service limits to all its customers so One of the things that you needed to be concerned with for your secrets and your software keys Was a limitation on how many you can do per 10 seconds It used to be 2,000 but now there are 4,000 get transactions per 10 seconds Allowed which changes the service quota just a little bit If you want to take a look at all your different service limits, there's the documentation on the Azure page And you can learn more about these Key Vault insights and so what you can Get out of this that that's huge is that the look into your Key Vault insights so you're able to see Utilization latency availability how many authentication Sessions have happened and which are successful which have failed and to be honest with you It's really really super useful because you want to be able to keep an eye for your auditing purposes how often certain secrets and keys are being used and then The monitoring overview page in the portal shows you total requests average latency success ratio metrics for API live latency Vault availability vault saturation API hits and API results all all really useful so make it your make it your Challenge to be able to use this service and Improve what your security posture is within your applications or your server deployments I think it's real important and you should always consider How to protect the secrets that you use in the best way possible Yeah, because if any of our audience right now is hard-coded Admin credentials in any of their automation scripts or deployment scripts Stop it. Stop it now It's not it's not a good idea It's it really isn't and Key Vault is a really great tool to allow you to basically save everything in one location and then when you're done with When you need that credentials you just retrieve it you use it and then it evaporates, so it's gone. Oh Yeah, yeah Christos Christos Mastakas he does some really great things with his 425 show on Twitch so He's got his Identity hackathon going on. Yep. I know that We we've got some people that have moved over into that part of the the organization and have really started enjoying What there is? To offer about look showing people how identity is best Or I say managed identities are best used within Azure. So take a look at the 45 show I think it's really really useful and Christos is just a really nice guy yep, and Shannon used to be on our team moved over to start working with Christos and just just wonderful person very knowledgeable and A DJ which I can appreciate All right last news bit of news for the week There's a new public preview for and I if you watch this show before you know, I'm a huge fan of Azure monitor I'm a huge fan of anything where I can collect as much information about my environment and build a way to be able to monitor it Display the status of the health and and react to it through alerts and so much For all of my machines regardless where they may be now as your monitor the new agent which uses data collection rules to Send the data to the log analytics workspace Can send it to multiple workspace if you have multiple rules for that particular agent that covers that scope One of the things that our customers have told us is when that machine is running Let's say on an arc server that's on-prem or in somebody else's cloud the The agent had to send the data over open Internet It was still encrypted With the long long key and and and very secure But some of the requirements that some of these customers have customers had in in terms of using that in Environment that requires isolation has prompted us to Enable the agent to connect to Azure private links So another way of improving that security posture keeping things off the public Internet as much as you can exactly so now with the agent you can connect to an Azure private link and if Essentially create a site-to-side VPN in which that encrypted information is going to go through so And it's going to connect to because it's a private link It connects to the closest endpoints to Azure and then uses the Azure backbone to get to your workspace, so again bypassing the the internet if you want to bypass the internet completely then we have to look at Express route Yeah, so like you said just more and more ways to Secure your platform and your environment and make sure that the data that you that is so critical to you remains yours Absolutely, absolutely So we've got some things that are going to be going on around the community that we probably like you to check out and see if It's something that you want to learn more about these different subjects one of them is something I'll be taking part in which is a Session with Maddie Stratten and Kat Osgrove of Pulumi You can go to this link aka ms slash reactor pi Pulumi We're going to talk about using Azure to Deploy Python resources with Pulumi So is it deploying Python resources or deploying resources with my Deploying Azure resources with Python and Pulumi so that means using your Using the Python language to actually write your infrastructure is code Solutions so that's one of the benefits of using Pulumi is there's not a specific DSL That you're using or domain specific language. You're using the language as you already know so if you want to write your infrastructure as code and deployment code in TypeScript you can do that Python you do that. There's all sorts of different ways they've got a an Azure first kind of mentality where they're going against what API is a release and then allowing you to just basically connect to those API so and and Create the infrastructure that you need. It's a great tool their state management there is ease of deployment because like I said You're able to connect Azure directly with the software and write the language that you want to write to actually deploy your code And so you don't have to learn Something new like you do say with ARM or with bicep while they're great products That you could be in a multi-cloud situation where you need to do the deployments to more than one particular cloud And if that's the case having an agnostic tool that that still Takes a look at all the different APIs that you have and you don't have to necessarily wait Like one of the downsides of Terraform while it's a great product. You have to wait for them to create Different connectors and make updates to the ones they have in order to utilize certain services No, that's great. I'm actually I was this was one of the things that were in my calendar Hopefully the my calendar doesn't get too overloaded by a February 16th, so I can still so watch it Watch you and cheer you on also what we have Patch and switches on today the noon Eastern 9 Pacific and I can't do the math to say what it is across the pond But that's about it for our Community events hey and by the way if you have community events that you are participating in or that you Are interested in and that are coming and that are coming up in your neck of the woods Just drop us a line and we'll add them to this list because we don't have visibility into every community event and We want to make sure that this show Fits in with you and thank you Jared For 17 ETC is that what he said yep UTC All right the to end the show Our module learn module of the week is we should have like some dramatic music to like Module of the week How about All right, so the module of the week this week is introduction to Azure Arc and the reason we picked that is because of the announcement of the landing zone for Azure Arc, but also because It ties in with a lot of different Announcement that we've had such as the private links because if you're deploying your agents on Azure Arc You have to know how to configure it so that it reports its information to the right location So I highly recommend Everyone to go through the introduction to Azure Arc learning path on Microsoft learn It's not very long It'll take you probably less than half an hour But it does give you a great overview of Azure Arc and what it can do for you so become a on Microsoft learn wizard by using this you can turn gain your experience points and Compete with your friends if you you find that to be what you want some people are a little bit more competitive than others I know we've got some people within our team that have done like every single module I think like Warren and Warren and son, I believe yeah done all of the modules. Yeah, I'm not there. I'm no I'm no where there I try to pick up at least one or two a week Always great, especially like if I'm doing fun bites and I have a new subject. I want to cover I always think it's important. They're like, hey, let's just run to the learn module. Yeah, that's right Well, we're all coming up to the half hour Thank you very much Jay for another great episode of Azure update Have a great weekend buddy Thanks a lot you too I know you'll be back next week with Another host that'll be your guest to help people learn a little bit more about what's new in Azure But until then you know what you all have a wonderful weekend. Enjoy that Friday We'll see you soon. Take care everybody. Bye