Ignite was held last week, and there were a bunch of amazing announcements from our product teams. The list would be to big to list here. Microsoft did release an e-book with a list of all the announcements. You can read about all announcements here. One of the updates that caught my eye was the […]
Author: nillsf
Istio – Meetup report
Yesterday, I had to privilege to attend a meetup on Istio, presented by Dan Ciruli, the PM for Istio at Google. It was a great presentation on an interesting topic; and I wanted to share my take-aways from the meetup via this blog post. What follows is (after my own introduction to the topic) mainly […]
Azure Files integration with Azure Backup
Azure Files offers a managed SMB 3.0 file share. Inside Azure Files, it was possible already to take file share snapshots to have a backup/retention solution. With the integration with Azure Backup, managing those snapshots has become a lot easier. The functionality is in public preview right now, so you can go ahead and try […]
VNET Service Endpoints
A long awaited functionality of multiple of our PaaS services was to link them to a virtual network. At Ignite, Microsoft announced Service Endpoints. This finally met this popular request, at least for storage accounts and SQL DBs. Endpoints allow you to secure your critical Azure PaaS resources to only your virtual networks. Traffic from […]
FUSE adapter for blob storage
Earlier this week, Microsoft launched a new Linux driver into public preview: the FUSE adapter for blob storage. Obviously this is an open source driver (hosted on github). The driver allows you to mount blob storage into your VMs and read/write from blob directly. What does this mean? It is a very easy way to […]