>> You might have got some of the announcements at
Microsoft Ignite in the past couple of weeks.
However, there's a lot new in
Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance.
Learn all about it from Lior this week on Data Exposed.
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>> Hi. I'm Anna Hoffman and welcome
to this episode of Data Exposed.
Today I'm joined by Lior from the Azure Arc Jumpstart team.
Lior is no stranger to Data Exposed.
Thanks so much for coming back on the show.
>> Thank you for having me Anna.
This is my happy place.
>> I'm glad to here that.
Today we're going to be talking about some of
the new things in Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance.
Let's just start there. What's new?
>> Anna you know we've been busy at work.
Ignite is upon us
and with Ignite we always have
some cool things that we're coming up with.
In the past few months, we've been working on
the new Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance landings
on accelerator as part of the Cloud Adoption Framework.
This is just a continuation to our journey
with Azure Arc and providing our customers with a way
to understand what is the really the seal
of approval when it comes to how to
design architectures and environments
that are involved around the Azure Arc technologies.
Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance has only
been generally available for a while now.
It was only obvious for us to create these accelerator.
Let me just going to show you what
we have and how does that look like.
I'm here in the Microsoft Docs
and as part of the Cloud Adoption Framework.
You'll be able to see that now we have a new accelerator here,
Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance.
Now with every accelerator,
we are coming up with what we called critical design area.
Those critical design areas are
covering different aspects of how do you want to
think about in architectural or how do you
want to think about the implementation of a certain technology.
Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance for
the landings and accelerator zone,
we have nine new critical design areas.
Those critical design areas will
cover the breadth of everything you
should take under consideration when it comes
to Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance.
Just as an example, if I go to
Identity and Access Management and that will
cover everything obviously under Identity and Access Management.
The level of depth that we are going to with when
it comes to these accelerators is very deep.
The explanations, the details,
the architecture diagrams are all designed
to make sure that you're coming up with more,
I should say, exclamation marks than question marks.
That's really the accelerator and this is getting launched now.
>> Awesome. This looks really cool.
It is like there's a lot of great information in there.
Like you said, this is just like one-to-one content,
it looks quite deep.
This is the Cloud Adoption Framework
if I'm understanding correctly.
But you've also been on the show and talk to
us about the jump start
and some of these other ways that you can
easily get started actually hands on.
Are there any updates in that space?
>> Yeah, for sure. When it comes to the landings on
accelerators because Azure Arc is
such a unique set of technologies,
I always like to say that we're building Azure outside of Azure.
The reason that I'm bringing this up is
because when you want to provide customers with a way to
try things in an environment that they don't
need to have their own infrastructure,
they don't need to bring their own infrastructure
or their multi-Cloud environment,
we want to provide them with a way to
actually experience the technology.
The way to do that is by developing an automation that will
spin up a full-blown infrastructure
for them so they can try that technology.
With that, we created ArcBox DataOps edition.
This is again a continuation to
our development into jump start around Azure Arc technologies.
We already have three flavors in market ArcBox full,
ArcBox for IT pros,
ArcBox for DevOps and now the latest released ArcBox for DataOps.
You can see from the architecture that what we
are providing to our customers is basically
a fully automated environment for them to
spin up in their Azure subscription, that's all you need.
Everything is contained in a single resource group.
They're getting basically all the pieces that they need in order
to basically experience everything
that is Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance,
Active Directory litigation,
DR, business continuity,
and again simple application, Grafana,
everything that is around that in order for them to
enjoy that and that's also part of the accelerator.
>> This always blows my mind
how many things just you are saying like,
you just take arm, bicep or
terraform and we can just deploy all this for you.
>> Exactly. It's a great segue because I want to
show you how things looks like
after you actually go buy and deploy this things.
I'm here in Azure and this is ArcBox DataOps Resource Group.
Now, the first thing that you might pay attention
to is the number of resources that gets created.
After the environment is fully deployed, the automation is done,
you're getting a lot of resources and those resources
is everything that you need in order to enjoy the environment.
Maybe to make things a bit simpler here
because I can just do a bit of filtering,
let's filter based on the things that we
have that's got to do with Azure Arc.
I'll basically select few things here and I think we're
good with that in your SQL Managed Instance and let's apply that.
Now, you can see right off the
that that we have three data controllers.
We have the custom locations,
we have three Arc-enabled Kubernetes clusters
that obviously that's
the fundamental building block in order for you to enjoy
Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance
and data services in general.,
those AKS clusters that we're
arc enabling in order to provide that simulation,
three Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance in order for you
to do everything that we
are sharing with you that you can do with this deployment.
It's a very deep,
but also very vast solutions so you can go ahead and get started.
>> Awesome, that's great.
Once people take a look at
the new landings that are in accelerator and this ArcBox DataOps,
what do you recommend people do next?
How do we recommend people who get
started and get a handle on for this stuff?
>> If you go today to the landings
and accelerator and under Implementation options,
you will see they start with
Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance landings
on accelerator sandbox.
Wow, that was a mouthful.
You can see that we are
providing you with the guidance on how to get started.
This will point you in to the Jumpstart webpage and
all the instructions on how to go by
and deploy ArcBox for DataOps.
This is really the recommended way
for us to tell customers how to get started
with Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance
and all the goodies that are coming with that.
It's not just that,
it's also a way for you to keep your environment
intact while you still ramping up on the technology.
You will not have to touch your production workloads.
But when your ready,
we are providing you with the solutions on how to do that with
a very comprehensive Azure resources automations in order
for you to apply those on top of
your current infrastructure. That's how you get started.
>> Awesome. Cool. Well, thanks a lot Lior for
coming on Data Exposed again, sharing what's new.
I know folks are going to be
excited to see all of these different things.
To our viewers, if you like this episode,
go and give it a like, leave us a comment.
Check the description because we're
going to put links to some of the things
that Lior have mentioned and we hope to see
you next time on Data Exposed.
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