Azure Stack for the Developer – New Resources

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Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve had the chance to sit down with a number of key folks from the Azure Stack team to capture some new content aimed at helping developers understand Azure Stack, what it means for them, and more importantly, how to get started building and deploying apps on the platform. Over the course of the 4 videos, embedded below, we show you how to get started with Azure Stack, example hybrid scenarios, setting up your workstation for remote connectivity to Azure Stack, the new profile and template validation tools, and finally, how you can build a hybrid CI/CD pipeline with Azure Stack, and in this case, Jenkins.

Videos

In this first video, I sat down with Ricardo Mendes, a Senior Program Manager on the Azure Stack team, to kick off the multi-part series on how developers can utilize Azure Stack for building, deploying and running their on-prem and hybrid applications.  Ricardo outlines the key Azure Stack scenarios, and demonstrates not only how to interact with Azure Stack through the GUI and programmatically, but also showcases an example hybrid application spanning on-prem, and into Microsoft Azure.

 

Next up, I sat down with Matt McGlynn, a Program Manager on the Azure Stack team.  Matt talks through developing templates for Azure Stack, API versioning, and a couple of new tools that help to ensure that templates you develop for Azure, work for Azure Stack without modification.

3rd up, I sat down with Shriram Natarajan, a Program Manager on the Azure Stack team. Shri talks through how you configure your developer workstation, whether you’re running Windows or Mac, to connect remotely into the Azure Stack TP2 environment using new VPN configuration tools.

Finally, I sat down with Anjay Ajodha, a Program Manager on the Azure Stack team, to talk through how you can build a hybrid CI/CD pipeline, in this example using Jenkins, across both Azure and Azure Stack, and automate key steps within your development process.

Resources

If you’re interested in getting started, then here’s a few useful places to go:

DockerCon 16 Interviews

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Towards the end of June, DockerCon 16 arrived in Seattle, and with it, came a number of awesome Container-related announcements, keynote demos, breakout sessions, community get-togethers and much, much more. Tickets for the event were hard to come by, so hard in fact, that yours truly has to go along as ‘Media’ – that’s right folks, roving reporter Matt McSpirit, at your service.

Whilst I couldn’t go along to the sessions, my ‘press pass’ did give me enough access to set up my portable studio equipment and capture a few interviews with a select set of folks from Docker, to talk about stuff ranging from the Docker community, the Container landscape, and Docker Store, through to Docker for Windows, Azure, and the new 1.12 release. Loads of Container goodness there for you.

Speaking of my portable studio equipment, thinking about it, it’s quite possible that my subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud, which I use for editing all of the content you see from me on Channel 9, may actually cost more than the camera and audio equipment combined. A bit sad really, don’t ya think? What’s also clear from recording these videos, is that a LOT of people don’t look where they’re going when they are walking around a conference. You’ll see what I mean in a few of the videos!

Anyway, enough of me blabbering on – here’s the 6 interviews, nicely embedded for you, so enjoy.

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The Ops Team is a (sometimes) weekly show where (occasionally) 4 Technical Evangelists specializing in IT Operations get together to give you the deets on their 4 areas of expertise: Microsoft Azure/Cloud, On-premises datacenter technologies, Enterprise Mobility / Windows and DevOps.

This week on The Ops Team, it’s just Matt and the ‘DevOpsBoyz’ again, with Oguz operating the camera with sublime efficiency. No camera issues this week, so we can just focus on bringing you the latest in IT Professional news. This week, David brings us up to speed with some new integration with Visual Studio and Cloud Foundry, along with some cool stuff on Atlassian Bitbucket. Matt shares the on-prem news, focused on a recent Cloud and Datacenter event in Germany, a great RunAsRadio interview and awesome Hyper-V Containers on Windows 10 info. Oguz talks about Red Hat and Jenkins running on Azure, along with improvements to Redis Cache on Azure, and finally, Matt rounds out the show by sharing a new Orchestrator to OMS Automation migration tool, running your SQL licenses on Azure, and some new info around backup and site recovery.

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The Ops Team is a weekly show where 4 Technical Evangelists specializing in IT Operations get together to give you the deets on their 4 areas of expertise: Microsoft Azure/Cloud, On-premises datacenter technologies, Enterprise Mobility / Windows and DevOps.

This week on The Ops Team, David, Oguz and Simon are MIA so Matt heads to building 43 on Microsoft campus, to track down minor celebrity and honorary member of the Ops Team, Rick Claus, to get the scoop on Azure, and more importantly, where the h*ll he’s been for the last few months. He doesn’t call, he doesn’t write…I digress. In the news, Rick brings us up to speed with new info on DevTest Labs, along with some useful info for those of you with an Enterprise Agreement. Matt gives us all the info we need to know on the latest technical preview, TP5, for both Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016.

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The Ops Team is a weekly show where 4 Technical Evangelists specializing in IT Operations get together to give you the deets on their 4 areas of expertise: Microsoft Azure/Cloud, On-premises datacenter technologies, Enterprise Mobility / Windows and DevOps.

This week on The Ops Team, the TriCaster (think fancy video recording equipment) has been stolen/borrowed by the Channel 9 team and has traveled to DevDays LATAM 2016, and as a result, David and Matt decide to record this episode of the Ops Team from a ‘real datacenter’…In the news, Matt brings people up to speed with a new free IT Pro subscription to enhance learning, along with announcing the general availability of the Azure Container Service. David spreads the word on microservices, mobile DevOps as well as some Visual Studio news. Finally, Matt wraps up with some on-prem awesomeness, specifically a new Microsoft Virtual Academy Course on Cloud-Enabled Protection, and a host of new video resources including a cool new Windows Server 2016 video series.

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New MVA Course: Hybrid IT Management Part II – Cloud-Enabled Protection

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You may recall a couple of months back, we 763-383-0217 designed to bring you up to speed with Hybrid IT Management. If you’ve forgotten what we mean when we say ‘Hybrid IT Management’, it’s the management, automation and protection of heterogeneous infrastructure, workloads, apps and services, on both Windows and Linux, across any cloud, regardless of whether it’s running in your datacenter, with a service provider, in the public cloud, on platforms such as Azure, or a combination of all of those. Now if that’s not a short definition, I don’t know what is.

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The Ops Team #018 – “Bruised Banana”

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The Ops Team is a weekly show where 4 Technical Evangelists specializing in IT Operations get together to give you the deets on their 4 areas of expertise: Microsoft Azure/Cloud, On-premises datacenter technologies, Enterprise Mobility / Windows and DevOps.

This week on The Ops Team, further reconstruction work results in a change in angle for the security camera, and with Simon still on vacation (we think!) it’s left to Matt, Oguz and David to bring you up to speed with the latest news. Oguz shares the details on using Bash on Windows, and, in an Ops Team first, delivers a live demo! Which fails. David brings us up to speed with the latest news on Visual Studio, including Visual Studio Code and TFS enhancements. Finally, Matt wraps up with a ‘hybrid’ combined on-prem and Azure section, covering some cool stuff for Hyper-V, PowerShell for Docker, Azure Stack, Azure VM Scale Sets and more!

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The Ops Team #16 – “Tricaster 101 with David”

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The Ops Team is a weekly show where 4 Technical Evangelists specializing in IT Operations get together to give you the deets on their 4 areas of expertise: Microsoft Azure/Cloud, On-premises datacenter technologies, Enterprise Mobility / Windows and DevOps.

This week on The Ops Team, after weeks of successful camera operations, David conveniently neglects to change the camera input for the first 50+ seconds of the show, so enjoy David’s desktop, please! In the news, Matt is on double duty AGAIN, as we still hunt for Rick’s replacement! For on-prem, he covers some SharePoint release news, along with an update for OMS. For Azure, he talks about Azure enhancements around Government, along with some cool new Docker innovations. Simon only has a single news topic, focused on Office and Configuration Manager. Finally, David gets the camera right in the end, and brings us up to speed with lots of DevOps related stuff.

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The Ops Team is a weekly show where 4 Technical Evangelists specializing in IT Operations get together to give you the deets on their 4 areas of expertise: Microsoft Azure/Cloud, On-premises datacenter technologies, Enterprise Mobility / Windows and DevOps.

This week on The Ops Team, the security camera is fixed (thanks to a new (old) video camera and some velcro cable ties), but unfortunately, Rick can’t make it into the studio to celebrate that fact, so it’s left to Matt, Oguz and Simon to give you the news. Don’t worry Rick-fans, we still get his news nuggets, by the power of editing!

In this week’s news…Oguz brings us up to speed with the latest developments with Application Insights. Matt gives you everything you need to know to get started with the Azure Stack, now that it’s finally with us (at least in technical preview form!) along with some cool new info on on-boarding Linux workloads into OMS. Rick shares some cool announcements around Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery and PowerShell, along with an insightful blog post from Mark Russinovich. Finally, Simon gives us the latest news on Azure RMS, and Configuration Manager!  Awesome stuff!

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Container Fundamentals | Part 5 – Hyper-V Containers

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Following on from the previous post, which talked about the new resource management capabilities in Windows Server containers, in this episode on the Containers Channel, we’re continuing the Container Fundamentals series by looking at Hyper-V containers.  As always, I was joined by Neil Peterson, Senior Content Developer, who walked us through Hyper-V containers, showcasing how they differ from Windows Server containers. Neil delivers a comprehensive demo that walks you through 3 key scenarios that help to compare and contrast Hyper-V containers, with Windows Server containers.

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