Ctrl+Alt+Azure
Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine
Weekly conversations for cloud architects, developers, CIOs, and CISOs navigating Microsoft Azure, cloud adoption strategy, security governance, identity, and agentic AI. Hosted by industry experts Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine.
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Dec 2, 2020 • 30min
058 - Azure Updates
Announcing ASP.NET Core in .NET 5 (Microsoft ASP.NET Blog)Azure Cache for Redis (Microsoft Azure)Azure Cosmos DB serverless (Microsoft Docs)Azure Advisor (Microsoft Docs)Azure Firewall DNS settings (Microsoft Docs)Use FQDN filtering in network rules (Microsoft Docs)Create Bing Search resource through Azure Marketplace (Microsoft Docs)At-scale migration automation support with Azure Migrate and Azure PowerShell (Microsoft Azure)Oracle WebLogic Server on Azure Kubernetes Service (Microsoft Azure)Azure Machine Learning updates (Microsoft Azure)QnA Maker Deep Learning (Microsoft Azure)Reduced vCPU VMs (Microsoft Azure)
Nov 25, 2020 • 31min
057 - Azure Policy and Azure Key Vault integration
Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Policy (Microsoft Docs)Built-in Azure Policies for Azure Key Vault (Microsoft Docs)
Nov 18, 2020 • 29min
056 - News in Azure, November 2020
Enforce a minimum required version of Transport Layer Security (TLS) for incoming requests (Microsoft Docs)Integrate Azure Key Vault with Azure Policy (Microsoft Docs)Visual Studio Code extension diagnostics + periscope (Azure Updates)App Service Discount for Premium Plans (Azure Updates)Generate a new function app from an OpenAPI specification (Azure Updates)Grant permission to applications to access an Azure key vault using Azure RBAC (Microsoft Docs)Monitoring Key Vault with Azure Event Grid (Microsoft Docs)Get notified of changes in Azure Key Vault by using Event Grid (Zimmergren)Azure Modular Datacenter (Microsoft)New datacenter: Taiwan, and Greece (Microsoft)SQL Server IaaS Agent Extension (Microsoft Docs)Soft delete for Azure File Shares is now generally available (Microsoft)
Nov 11, 2020 • 37min
055 - A few thoughts on event-based automation with Azure
Best Practices for building Azure Functions (Zimmergren)Reflections on Azure Logic Apps (Ctrl+Alt+Azure Podcast)Event Grid message delivery and retry (Microsoft Docs)Subscription and tenant limits / throttling (Microsoft Docs)
Nov 4, 2020 • 25min
054 - Linux on Windows with WSL 2
Sideloading a custom Linux distroBuilding a local WordPress test environment using Windows 10, Docker Desktop, and WSL 2 (Jussi)Installing WSL 2 (Microsoft Docs)
Oct 28, 2020 • 30min
053 - Backups using the new Azure Backup Center
Azure Backup Center announcement (Microsoft)Support matrix for Backup Center (Microsoft Docs)Overview of Azure Backup Center (Microsoft Docs)
Oct 21, 2020 • 28min
052 - Recommendations if we started working with Azure today!
Get Started Guide for Azure Developers (Microsoft Docs)Developing with Azure Resource Manager - Azure Resource Explorer (Zimmergren)Microsoft Architecture Center (Microsoft Docs)Microsoft Learn - Azure (Microsoft Docs)What is Azure Active Directory? (Microsoft Docs)
Oct 14, 2020 • 36min
051 - Digesting announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2020
.NET 5 RC1 (Microsoft Devblogs)Azure Private Marketplace (Microsoft Docs)Azure SQL Edge (Microsoft Docs)Azure Logic Apps updates (Microsoft Techcommunity)Azure Resource Mover (Microsoft Docs)022 - Getting Started with Azure Arc, the modern Group Policies (Ctrl+Alt+Azure episode)Azure Arc updates (Microsoft)Azure Backup Center (Microsoft Docs)Azure Backup Center Support Matrix (Microsoft Docs)
Oct 7, 2020 • 34min
050 - First look at Azure Communication Services
Overview of Azure Communication Services (Microsoft)Microsoft Mechanics video on the service (Youtube)Get a phone number (Microsoft)Events supported by ACS (Microsoft)Hero sample on group chat (Microsoft)
Sep 30, 2020 • 28min
049 - Security News from Microsoft Ignite September 2020
Azure Automanage (Microsoft)Azure Sentinel Updates (Microsoft)Microsoft Compliance Manager (Microsoft)Microsoft Compliance Manager Licensing and Terms (Microsoft)
