Microsoft Azure 2017 年 12 月の Update

2017 年 12 月のAzure の Update の情報です。
最新のUpdateの情報は、下記のサイトを参照ください。

■Azure Update
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/

■Azure Blog > Announcements
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/topics/announcements/

■Azure Blog > Update
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/topics/updates/

■Azure App Service Team Blog
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/appserviceteam/

■Azure Logic Apps – Release Notes
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/logicappsupdate/

■Bot Framework Blog
https://blog.botframework.com/

■Azure DevTest Labs Team Blog
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devtestlab/

■Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/machinelearning/

■Cloud Platform News Bytes Blog
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/stbnewsbytes

■Azure Service Fabric Team Blog
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/azureservicefabric/

 

Portal

[Portal]

• 12/6 Azure portal update for classic portal users

Application Platform

[Virtual Machine]

• 12/5 Announcing the Lv2-Series VMs powered by the AMD EPYC™ processor
• 12/5 Announcing the general availability of B-Series and M-Series
• 12/6 cloud-init for RHEL 7.4 and CentOS 7.4 preview
• 12/12 Microsoft Azure preview with Azure Availability Zones now open in France
• 12/19 VMware virtualization on Azure

 

[Azure DevTest Labs]

• 12/1 Azure DevTest Labs: Enable custom images with licensing terms
• 12/7 Using PowerShell to deploy DevTest Lab Artifacts
• 12/18 Feature update: Set up Internal support information for your Lab
• 12/19 Azure DevTest Labs: Set up internal support information for your lab

 

[Azure Contaner Services]

• 12/6 Connect your applications to Azure with Open Service Broker for Azure
• 12/6 Azure brings new Serverless and DevOps capabilities to the Kubernetes community
• 12/7 Java: Manage Azure Container Service (AKS) and more
• 12/7 Partners enhance Kubernetes support for Azure and Windows Server Containers

 

[Service Fablic]

• 12/1 Service Fabric 6.0 Second Refresh Release Roll-out Completed
• 12/4 Lift, shift, and modernize using containers on Azure Service Fabric

 

[App Services]

• 12/1 PHP updated to latest versions
• 12/2 PHP stacks updated to the latest versions
• 12/5 Announcing Azure Functions Runtime preview 2
• 12/12 November 2017 App Service Update
  ・Functions on Linux App Service Plans
  ・Support for HTTPS Only
  ・Quick Start refresh
• 12/14 PHP updated to latest versions for App Service
• 12/14 PHP Minor Version Update for January 2018

 

Data Store

[SQL Database]

• 12/5 Resumable Online Index Rebuild is generally available for Azure SQL DB
• 12/5 Database Scoped Global Temporary Tables are generally available for Azure SQL DB
• 12/12 How cloud speed helps SQL Server DBAs

 

[Azure Database for PostgreSQL]

• 12/6 Performance best practices for using Azure Database for PostgreSQL

 

[Redis Cache]

• 12/4 GUID migration: Azure Redis Cache US Government

 

[Stroage]

• 12/13 Cloud storage now more affordable: Announcing general availability of Azure Archive Storage
• 12/14 GUID migration: Managed Disks and Blob storage

 

[CosmosDB]

• 12/19 Azure #CosmosDB: Entry point for unlimited containers is now 60% cheaper and other improvements

Network

[Virtual Network]

• 12/13 Cloud storage now more affordable: Announcing general availability of Azure Archive Storag
• 12/14 General availability: Azure CNI plug-in

 

Operation Management

[Automation]

• 12/7 Automation runbooks available in action groups to take actions from alerts

 

[Backup]

• 12/21 Azure Backup now supports BEK encrypted Azure virtual machines

 

[Azure Site Recovery]

• 12/13 General availability of Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner for VMware and Hyper-V

 

[Monitor]

• 12/12 Azure Monitor: Send monitoring data to an event hub
• 12/20 New Alerts (preview) in Azure Monitor

 

IoT

[IoT Hubs]

• 12/5 Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service is generally available

 

[IoT Edge]

• 12/22 December update for Azure IoT Edge

 

[Media Services]

• 12/8 Media Services SDKs for Java and PHP support Azure Active Directory Authentication

 

Security

[Azure Active Directory]

• 12/14 Azure Active Directory Domain Services supports Azure CSP subscriptions

 

[Azure Security Cener]

• 12/20 How Azure Security Center detects vulnerabilities using administrative tools
• 12/21 Announcing the public preview for Adaptive Application Controls

 

BigData

[HDInsight]

• 12/5 HDInsight Tools for VSCode supports Azure environments worldwide
• 12/18 Azure HDInsight Integration with Azure Log Analytics is now generally available
• 12/18 Announcing Apache Kafka for Azure HDInsight general availability
• 12/18 Azure HDInsight announcements: Significant price reduction and amazing new capabilities
• 12/18 Enterprise Security Package preview for Azure HDInsight
• 12/20 Azure HDInsight Performance Benchmarking: Interactive Query, Spark and Presto

[Azure Data Factory]

• 12/20 New connectors available in Azure Data Factory V2

AI

[Bot Services]

• 12/13 Announcing the General Availability of Azure Bot Service and Language Understanding, enabling developers to build better conversational bots
• 12/13 Conversational Bots Deep Dive – What’s new with the General Availability of Azure Bot Service and Language Understanding
• 12/14 Build Great Conversational Bots Using Azure Bot Service & LUIS (Both Services Now Generally Available)
• 12/19 Bot State Service will soon be retired on March 31st, 2018
• 12/22 ICYMI: Recent Microsoft AI Platform Updates, Including in ONNX, Deep Learning, Video Indexer & More

 

[Machine Learning]

• 12/6 Music Generation with Azure Machine Learning

[Cognitive Services]

• 12/18 Bring your own vocabulary to Microsoft Video Indexer

 

DevOps

[Visual Studio Team Services]

• 12/7 What’s brewing in Visual Studio Team Services: December 2017 Digest

 

Other

[Media Services]

• 12/8 Media Services SDKs for Java and PHP support Azure Active Directory Authentication

 

[CDN]

• 12/6 Control how your files are cached on Azure CDN using caching rules

 

[Tools]

• 12/5 Azure SQL Data Warehouse: Support for SQL Operations Studio
• 12/21 Preview: Azure SDK for Go 12.0.0

 

[Other]

• 12/5 Don’t build your cloud home on shaky foundations
• 12/7 Free eBook – The Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Azure now available
• 12/7 Azure Application Architecture Guide
• 12/11 Azure Marketplace – New offers in November 2017
• 12/12 Microsoft expands scope of Singapore MTCS certification
• 12/13 New Azure management and cost savings capabilities
• 12/13 Azure ARM API for consumption usage details
• 12/19 Reference Architecture and automation for Financial Services web applications
• 12/19 Announcing the preview release of subscription level budgets via ARM APIs
• 12/21 Benefits of migrating IaaS to Azure Resource Manager

[Summary]

• 12/6 Cloud Platform Release Announcements for December 6, 2017
  ・Open Service Broker for Azure | Disclosure
  ・Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances | GA
  ・Microsoft IoT Central | Preview
  ・Azure IoT Hub | Device Provisioning Service—GA
  ・Azure Virtual Machines | M-series—GA
  ・N-series virtual machines | NCv2 and ND—GA
  ・Project Honolulu | Preview
  ・Announcing R3 on Azure—Strengthening our partnership
  ・Azure Cosmos DB | Extending IP firewall in preview
  ・Azure Cosmos DB | Graph API Improvements—GA・
  ・Azure Location Based Services Preview | Disclosure
  ・Power BI Desktop | GA
  ・Power BI service | GA
  ・Azure SQL Database | Three new features now available
  ・Visual Studio 2017 | Update
  ・Visual Studio for Mac | Update
  ・System Center Configuration Manager | Co-management disclosure—GA

Azure Stack

[Azure Srtack]

• 12/5 Bringing hybrid cloud Java and Spring apps to Azure and Azure Stack

 

まとめ

最近、Azure Stack をとっても触ってみたいのですが、HW 等の準備が大変だなーって思ってます。これも試してみたいっす。
あと、Data Platform 周りも面白そうですし、DevOps / AKS も面白そう。

試してみたいこともあるし、時間が取れないのでひとまず短時間でやれそうなことを試してみたりと、今年は去年以上に Azure を触りたいなって思います。