Azure Weekly Updates - 21st May 2022 - Part 2

Introduction

Azure updates are point-in-time or release notes announcements about Azure products, features, APIs, and tools. These include items under development, previews, general availability, retirements, and events information.

This week's azure have released more updates to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and also we have news about Azure Virtual Machines, Azure IoT Central, Azure Stream Analytics and Azure DNS.

Let's go!

Azure Weekly Updates - 21st May 2022

1. Azure Weekly Updates - 21st May 2022 - Part 1
2. Azure Weekly Updates - 21st May 2022 - Part 2

Generally available: Open Service Mesh extension for Azure Arc

Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes allows us to attach and configure Kubernetes clusters running anywhere. Open Service Mesh (OSM) is a lightweight, extensible, Cloud Native service mesh that allows users to uniformly manage, secure, and get out-of-the-box observability features for highly dynamic microservice environments. The Open Service Mesh (OSM) extension is a managed service mesh for Arc-enabled Kubernetes clusters that is lightweight and extensible.

Learn more.

Public preview: HostProcess Containers

HostProcess containers (also referred to as privileged containers) extend the Windows container model to enable a wider range of Kubernetes cluster management scenarios. HostProcess containers allow users to package and distribute management operations and functionalities that require host access while retaining versioning and deployment methods provided by containers.

Learn more.

Generally available: Industrial IoT Connectivity Partners integrate with Azure IoT Central

With this update comes the integration of Industrial Connectivity Partners - CloudRail and Omnio. With seamless integration for both greenfield and brownfield scenarios these partners are simplifying the connectivity of assets and the onboarding of data to the Azure Cloud via Azure IoT Central.

Get started with industrial scenarios today here.

Public preview: Additional support for managed identity authentication in Azure Stream Analytics

Stream Analytics now allows us to use managed identities as an authentication mode when connecting to Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Service Bus. Managed identities eliminate the limitations of user-based authentication methods, like the need to reauthenticate because of password changes oruser tokenexpirations that occur every 90 days. When we remove the need to manually authenticate, our Stream Analytics deployments can be fully automated.

To learn more, visit:

Connect to Azure Cosmos DB using Managed Identity
Connect to Azure Service Bus using Managed Identity

Public preview: Azure DNS Private Resolver Hybrid name resolution and conditional forwarding

Azure DNS Private Resolver is a new service that enables us to query Azure DNS private zones from an on-premises environment and vice versa without deploying VM based DNS servers. It provides a simple, zero- maintenance, reliable, and secure Domain Name System (DNS) service to resolve and conditionally forward DNS queries from a virtual network, on-premises, and to other target DNS servers without the need to create and manage a custom DNS solution.

Read the documentation and review the Azure DNS product page.

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