Summary of Azure snippets for the week commencing 2nd December 2024, grouped by Azure service.

It’s been a little while since I posted, and this one is a bit of a bumper one with MS Ignite having finished recently - a lot of Azure updates have dropped, along with other products. AI is unsurprisingly a big theme once again :-) Check out the Ignite 2024 Book of News for all the details.

Summary of Azure snippets for the week commencing 5th August 2024, grouped by Azure service.

GA = Generally Available
Public/Private Preview = as stated :-)

Azure services with highlighted updates this week:

• Azure Extended Zones
• Azure Kubernetes Service
• Azure Storage

Azure Extended Zones

• Azure Extended Zones (Public Preview) : Extending Azure into a small-footprint deployment (for specific services) where latency or data residency for workloads is a primary concern. Looks like the first Extended Zone is in Los Angeles.

Azure Kubernetes Service

• Leveraging Azure Copilot for AKS : More and deeper integration to make cluster management simpler.
• The latest AKS release is now rolling out :
  • AKS patch versions 1.30.3, 1.29.7, 1.28.12, 1.27.16, are now available (so check your cluster versions for any that now fall into ‘N - 3’ or lower).
  • The AKS extension for Visual Studio Code now supports the ability to attach an ACR to your cluster, generate Kubernetes deployment files, generate Dockerfiles, and generate GitHub Actions

Azure Storage

• Customer Managed Planned Failover for Azure Storage (Public Preview) : Finally, the ability to failover storage endpoints while they’re still healthy is coming! Definitely a boon for DR testing, moving regions if there’s a problem with a different service, etc. Very limited set of regions supported at the moment.