This week A Cloud Guru turns five! Yes.
We're almost old enough for primary school. And because of that,
the cloud boss sent this. Hmm. Wonder what's in here?
Hmm. Another box. Hmm. Hang on.
Oh, cookies! Look llamas. Yay.
Apart from cookies, this week in Azure also has some news,
in particular Kubernetes, all the things. Yes.
There are several small updates for the container orchestration.
Microsoft uses AIOps to advance Azure Service quality and
a brand new platform for all of our students at ACG.
You've tuned into Azure This Week.
The show that you can listen to at a reasonable volume between nine and 11.
A bunch of new updates this week for Azure Kubernetes Services.
And I start with, Hmm, let me see.
Service node image upgrades! You can now update node-level components,
such as the container runtime or OS updates without going through a full
Kubernetes upgrade.
There is a new public preview of ephemeral OS discs for AKS
agent nodes.
This will give you a lower read/write latency and faster cluster operations like
scale or upgrade.
AKS now support Azure Resource Health in public preview.
Azure Resource Health reports on the current and past health of your resources
and give you a personalized dashboard of the health of your clusters.
And finally,
there is a public preview of Container Storage Interface,
CSI storage driver support on AKS,
a standard for exposing arbitrary block and file storage systems to
containerized workloads on Kubernetes.
So much Kubernetesing.
Microsoft is employing artificial intelligence to streamline the Azure outage
reporting.
Their own words is that the approach "includes working towards improving
automatic detection, engagement,
and mitigation of cloud outages." It will also trickle down to notify
customers and the aim is to both detect and notify much, much faster.
Generally within 15 minutes. If you want to take advantage of this,
you need to set up Service Health Alerts,
which will send the alert by the Azure Monitor Portal. AIOps for the win!
Back in December Linux Academy,
and A Cloud Guru came together as one company. And since then,
hundreds of people across both companies have worked super hard to combine
the two platforms, and it is done! Well,
phase 1 of the migration is done.
The new ACG platform has more courses, many,
many more Hands-on Labs, excellent llama graphics,
and so much more.
As our premium ultimate cloud CEO puts it "this is really just the beginning
by combining the two market leading companies,
we've been able to stop wasting time on building many of the same things,
and instead assign our larger combined team to build entirely new
content and innovative learning experiences." Lots more to come in this
space that is probably enough of me.
Next week, Daniel is back with Azure Level Up,
the monthly special episode of the show where we look deeper into the services
and features of the Azure news from the past month.
He also has more excellent dad jokes, or I hope. As we say,
on the A Cloud Guru team,
when all of your llamas have come home to roost at the same time,
seek and you shall cloud. So see you next week. Keep staying calm Cloud Gurus.