This week, we have hotpatching, VM deletion magic, some Spring Cloud and cross region restores. I'm
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The best part of IaaS, is rebooting your Windows Servers after installing a path or update - said
no one ever. You know what I mean. Rebooting any computing device is a bit annoying, but when it
comes to servers that run your critical business processes, it can get downright hairy. The wait
for everything to come back up, the anxiety of critical patches, the late night scheduling
of downtime, and so much more. Now there is hotpatching though. Yeah, you can patch and
update Windows Server Azure Edition core virtual machines on Azure without requiring a reboot.
I know! It works by patching code in memory of the running processes. You will need the hot
patches from Microsoft. And so far, it only works on Windows Server 2022 Datacenter, Azure Edition,
but it is a start. This should improve the protection, deployment times, and availability for
all your Server 2022 VMs. Combining this with Azure Automanage and Azure-orchestrated patching,
managing VMs is now even easier. One thing to note is that when you still...As
well as other installer...One thing to note is that when you, sorry.
One thing to note is that you will still need to reboot VMs when you are installing updates that
aren't "hotpatched", as well as after installing what Microsoft calls "baseline" updates happening
roughly once a quarter. Get all the details and how to set up hotpatching using the link
in the description. I dunno if you wanna put a little label or something tip of the week or not.
Or minor update of the week, I dunno, something, you figure it out. This week's small, but hugely
helpful improvement. You can now automatically delete discs, NICs and public IPs associated
with a VM when you delete that VM. Only took us a decade, but well, it's finally here. Yay.
To be honest, this story is not my strong side. I haven't used the Spring Cloud
with VMWare on Azure, but if you have, you might also have got the benefits and that
let you focus on apps instead of security patching, scaling and monitoring. In fact,
Spring Cloud has been so popular that Azure has created a new Enterprise tier. At least
that's what they claim. I'm sure it has nothing with being able to charge more. Anyway, the new
Enterprise tier "includes commercially supported Spring runtime components to help Enterprise
customers ship faster and unlock Spring's full potential" as Microsoft marketing puts it.
This is the next step in the collaboration between Microsoft and VMWare. The plan is to eventually
let you deploy polyglot applications that are inherently portable across any Azure service,
any cloud and any on-premises system. Big claim. I like it. If you're a fan of Spring Cloud on Azure,
the new Enterprise tier is now in preview. So go try it out. Is 2022 the year of
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I'll include links in description below. You can now create VM restore points in any public
region of your choice, irrespective of which region the VM is deployed to.
Let's say you have a workload running on a VM in east US which you want to protect from disasters.
Now, while this is uncommon, it could potentially bring down the entire region. Oh. You can now
periodically create VM restore points in a target region far, far away from your source region, like
North Europe. If your workloads deployed in east US becomes inaccessible due to
any kind of disasters or failures, you can use one of the restore points, you know,
created in North Europe to create a failover VM with minimal data loss and downtime. Neat.
But that isn't all. You can also copy restore points between regions for added flexibility.
So much VM goodness this week. I love that hotpatching feature. Well, what do you think?
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Next week we have another new face on the show. So take good care of Ace. He is...well,
an Ace! I'll see you in the cloud. Keep being awesome Cloud Gurus. And a backwards one.