Interesting announcements at Ignite 2018

I thought I'd share some of the announcements at Microsoft Ignite 2018 that I found really interesting. Obviously this is a subset of announcements, related only to products I've used or am planning to use in the future.

IoT Hub/Edge:
  1. There’s a Jenkins plugin for edge modules that enables builds and deployments to the devices: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/developer-tooling-improvements-for-azure-iot-edge/
Cosmos DB:
  1. Support for multiple masters (which allows scaling writes across regions): https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-cosmos-db-database-for-intelligent-cloud-intelligent-edge-era/
Containers/Container Registry/K8s:
  1. The Registry now has support for Helm Chart Repos, Docker Content Trust and ACR tasks: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-container-registry-public-preview-of-helm-chart-repositories-and-more/
  • ACR tasks are pretty cool – if you have multiple images dependent on a certain base image, you can trigger updated builds for all the images when you update the base image.
    Also – I think it can do a lot of what pipelines can?
  • Azure Container Instances (ACI) can be deployed into existing VNETs: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/aci-vnet/
  • K8S is available on Stack in preview
Ops:
  1. As you may have already heard me say elsewhere, Azure Pipelines is AMAZING: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-pipelines-is-the-ci-cd-solution-for-any-language-any-platform-any-cloud/
Misc:
  1. Recommendation system for models based on your dataset. I’m assuming this will work well for generic problems. Definitely something interesting to play around with!: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-automated-ml-capability-in-azure-machine-learning/
  2. HDInsight supports Hadoop 3.0:
    https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-hdinsight-brings-next-generation-hadoop-3-0-and-enterprise-security-to-the-cloud/
    https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/deep-dive-into-azure-hdinsight-4-0/
  3. Azure CDN is GA: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-s-content-delivery-network-is-now-generally-available/
  4. Functions V2 is GA: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-azure-functions-2-0/
  • Support for Java and Python is still in preview
  • Consumption plan for Linux is in preview
  • Event Hubs is available on Azure Stack
  • Service Fabric is available on Azure Stack

As always, feel free to reach out to me @rohchak if you have any questions!