Azure Daily News for Tuesday, May 23 2023

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  • Unleash Your AI Potential: Join the Microsoft OpenAI Hackathon!
      We are thrilled to extend an exclusive invitation to the Microsoft OpenAI Hackathon, a unique developer experience hosted by Microsoft. Taking place online on June 15-16, 2023, this event offers an immersive opportunity for teams and organizations to collaborate with Microsoft subject matter experts in solving AI-related use cases. Join us for two days of ideation, design, and hands-on...
    Source: Azure Developer Community Blog
  • Extend the capabilities of your AKS deployments with Kubernetes Apps on Azure Marketplace
    We're excited to announce that Kubernetes Apps in the Azure Marketplace is now Generally Available. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) provides a robust and scalable managed Kubernetes platform for organizations running their most mission-critical applications on Azure. With Kubernetes Apps, teams can further extend the capabilities of their AKS deployments with a vibrant ecosystem of tested and...
    Source: Apps on Azure Blog
  • What's New for Azure App Service at Build 2023
    Welcome to Build 2023! Welcome to this year's Build 2023 roundup of What’s New for Azure App Service! Build is in-person for the first time in many years (/woo-hoo!) and product group members will be in-person at Build 2023 in Seattle this year!    This link to Application Innovation sessions at Build 2023 includes a comprehensive list of ten separate breakout sessions, demo sessions, and...
    Source: Apps on Azure Blog
  • Introducing Azure App Spaces: Getting your code into the cloud as fast as possible
    We are excited to announce Azure App Spaces (preview), one of the fastest and easiest way to deploy and manage your web apps on Azure. Azure App Spaces is a portal-based experience that takes an app-first approach to building, deploying, and running your apps. App Spaces makes it easier for developers to get started using Azure, without needing to be an expert on the hundreds of different...
    Source: Apps on Azure Blog
  • Azure Kubernetes Service Build 2023 announcements
    Welcome to Microsoft Build 2023.  The evolution of the Kubernetes platform has not stopped over the past year, and the Azure Kubernetes team has continued to drive innovation and features to help our customers keep up to date and make the adoption and use of Kubernetes on AKS as seamless as possible.   The value Kubernetes provides for you to ship faster, react to customers’ demands quicker...
    Source: Apps on Azure Blog
  • Introducing Azure API Center for Centralized API Discovery and Governance
    Today we are announcing the preview of Microsoft Azure API Center – a new Azure service and a capability of the Azure API Management platform that enables tracking APIs in a centralized location for discovery, reuse, and governance.   In today's fast-paced digital world, APIs are critical for businesses as they seek to create digital products, integrate systems, and increase developer...
    Source: Integrations on Azure Blog
  • GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps public preview starts now!
    In October of last year we announced that GitHub Advanced Security was coming to Azure DevOps, starting with a private preview in November. Since then, we’ve been working hard on the product and incorporating feedback from our private preview customers. Today, The post GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps public preview starts now! appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.
    Source: Azure DevOps Blog
  • Unleash Spring apps in a flex environment with Azure Spring Apps Consumption and Dedicated plans
    In March, we introduced the Consumption pricing plan for Azure Spring Apps allowing you to start from zero and scale to zero vCPU. Today, we are thrilled to announce the public preview of the Standard Dedicated plan! The Standard Dedicated plan provides a fully managed, dedicated environment for running Spring applications on Azure. This plan offers you customizable compute options (including...
    Source: Apps on Azure Blog
  • Cloud-native at Build 2023
    Cloud-native at Build 2023 Cloud-native development is a paradigm that aims to deliver scalable, resilient, and adaptable applications that can run on any cloud platform. Microsoft's cloud-native products, such as Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Functions, and Azure DevOps, provide the tools and services to help developers build, deploy, and manage cloud-native applications with ease. We have...
    Source: Apps on Azure Blog
  • Confidential containers on Azure Container Instances General Availability
    We are proud to announce the general availability of confidential containers on Azure Container Instances (ACI) – a serverless platform for deploying Linux containers within a hardware-based and attested Trusted Execution Environment (TEE). As customers collect larger sets of sensitive data, they require a solution that provides defense in depth, helping them keep their data secure. Since our...
    Source: Apps on Azure Blog
  • Azure Container Apps service management just got easier! (preview)
       Demo showing Azure Container App Add-ons and bindings in action.   Today we’re announcing the preview release of two new features for Azure Container Apps (ACA) related to service management   An alternative hosting option for runtime services Prior to today's announcement user's options for runtime services was a choice between Azure managed services (such as Azure Cache for Redis), or...
    Source: Apps on Azure Blog
  • Azure Container Apps now supports Buildpacks and Patching for .NET 7 (preview)
    Testing application changes rapidly is often a catalyst to delivering on business requirements quickly. That’s why we so often spend so much effort to optimize the time between “File Save” and “Browser Reload”. A lot of time this loop happens entirely on our workstations, and we forgo the true end-to-end test of reviewing our changes on the platform that will later run the application --...
    Source: Apps on Azure Blog
  • Azure Functions for Cloud-native Microservices: Public Preview Launch
    Cloud-native applications are rapidly becoming a mesh of microservices, event driven serverless functions and services running on public cloud and on-premises, integrated and linked with real-time events. Cloud-native apps are often composed of distributed microservices hosted in containers for solutions that are loosely coupled, resilient, manageable, and observable as defined by the Cloud...
    Source: Apps on Azure Blog
  • Introducing jobs for Azure Container Apps
    Azure Container Apps, a service for running serverless containers and microservices, is excited to announce the public preview of jobs. With this new feature, Container Apps now supports two types of compute resources: Apps are generally available and are the first type of compute resource in Azure Container Apps. They are services that continuously process input. Common examples of apps...
    Source: Apps on Azure Blog
  • Easily create Dapr components and connect to Azure services
    We’re excited to announce that authoring Dapr components for Azure services in the Azure Container Apps portal just became significantly easier!   With this new feature, you no longer need to worry about Dapr OSS concepts and required component metadata. Now, you can create a Dapr component by simply: Choosing the Dapr building block/API for which you’ll create the component (for example,...
    Source: Azure Developer Community Blog
  • Reimagining Developer Workstations with Microsoft Dev Box
    In August 2022, we announced the public preview release of Microsoft Dev Box: self-serve, ready-to-code, cloud-based developer workstations for teams of any size. Over the last year we worked closely with more than 50 organizations across financial services, retail, automotive, and other industries that provided indispensable feedback and recommendations. Internally, we deployed Dev Box to...
    Source: Azure Developer Community Blog
  • Azure Cache for Redis at Microsoft Build 2023
    Introduction  We are excited to announce that Azure Cache for Redis is receiving a major upgrade announced at Microsoft Build 2023, with several new features and enhancements that will help developers improve the performance and scalability of their applications. This release includes many significant improvements, such as integration with Azure Functions, a new Azure Marketplace template for...
    Source: Azure Developer Community Blog
  • Azure Deployment Environments is now generally available
    Last year at Build, we announced a new product called Azure Deployment Environments, a service that enables developers to quickly spin up app infrastructure with project-based templates. Since then, we’ve worked closely with over 30 organizations from industries like financial services, retail, automotive, and more. Thanks to their indispensable feedback, we’ve added several valuable features...
    Source: Azure Developer Community Blog
  • Announcing the public preview of the devtunnel CLI
    Dev tunnels are a powerful tool to securely open your localhost to the internet and control who has access, so you can easily test and debug your web apps and webhooks from virtually anywhere. With dev tunnels, you can also share your local work in-progress with colleagues or clients to get feedback asynchronously without the hassle of deploying. Previously, the only way you could use dev...
    Source: Azure Developer Community Blog
  • Azure Functions – May update for Microsoft build
    Azure Functions – May update With Microsoft Build happening, the team wanted to give an update on the latest releases in Azure Functions since the previous update in early January Azure Functions 2022 recap and 2023 sneak peek - Microsoft Community Hub. We have been getting great feedback from customers and the community and I wanted to thank everyone for the continued growth of Functions and...
    Source: Apps on Azure Blog

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Azure Daily News for Tuesday, May 23 2023