Azure Snippets w/c 28/10/2024
By Jon Lee
Summary of Azure snippets for the week commencing 28th October 2024, grouped by Azure service.
GA = Generally Available
Public/Private Preview = as stated
RET = Service retirement
Azure services with highlighted updates this week:
API Center
- API Management & API Center Synchronization (Public Preview) : Link an APIM instance to API Center to sync the API inventory and keep it continuously up to date.
Azure Storage
- Live Resize for Azure Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disks (GA) : Increase your Premium SSD v2 and Ultra disks’ storage capacity without stopping your VM. Some limitations to this capability and unsupported regions, check the docs carefully.
Compute
- Azure Cobalt 100-based Virtual Machines (GA) : General purpose Dpsv6-series and Dplsv6-series and memory-optimized Epsv6-series VM series. These VMs run on Microsoft’s first 64-bit Arm-based Azure Cobalt 100 CPU, which has been fully designed in-house. Up to 50% better price performance than previous generation Arm-based VMs. Region availability expanding through the rest of 2024, UK South is coming soon.
Infrastructure as Code
- AzAPI version 2.0 released (GA) : The AzAPI provider is designed to expedite the integration of new Azure services with HashiCorp Terraform. It functions as a lightweight layer atop the Azure ARM REST APIs, and is a first class provider experience along with the AzureRM provider. Azure resources that might not yet be or may never be supported in AzureRM can be accessed by this provider, including private/public preview services and features. v2.0 now fully supports HCL (no more JSON) among other updates. Both Microsoft and Hashicorp have blog posts comparing AzureRM and AzAPI and scenarios where you might choose one over the other (they’re mostly the same post but with some additional stuff in each :-) There is also now a tool (aztfmigrate) that lets you migrate resources between the two providers.