A new Azure certification. Yup. But more than that in a sec.
You're watching Azure This Week with me Lars Klint, and this week
there's also a new service to make your VM image building tasks much
easier, and you can turn your phone into an IoT Azure device. Now,
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Yep. There is no other way to say it. There is a new Azure certification.
While the numbering still doesn't make any sense, AZ-700?
The aim of the cert is very relevant.
AZ-700 is the Azure Network Engineer Associate exam,
which covers topics such as hybrid networking, core network infrastructure,
routing, and secure networks.
This exam has been missing for quite some time.
Networking skills have so far been covered by a mix of AZ-104 Azure
Administrator, AZ-204 Azure Developer, and AZ-303
Azure Architect. But topics such as Web Application Firewall,
Azure Traffic Manager profiles,
Azure Front Door and point-to-site VPN connections were either not covered in
depth, or very well, or not at all. So if you're keen,
you can start studying for the exam now, as the full outline is published.
The exam will be available late July in a beta format,
which usually means it is very cheap to sign up for as well. I know I will.
Yeah.
Building an image for a Virtual Machine is a common,
yet quite complex process. You have to gather the requirements from users,
create a standard configuration, test the image,
maintain it and much more.
The new Azure VM Image Builder seeks to make that process much,
much simpler.
Using a single template lets you focus on the requirements gathering from the
users rather than learning the tooling and the processes.
Microsoft also promises that version nightmares between OS instances,
infrastructure complexities, and much more, has gone away.
Yeah, let's see, ay?
Now Azure VM Image Builder service supports both Windows and Linux,
patching of existing images, integration with Chef,
Puppet and other config servers,
pipeline integration and minimum security implications.
If this n, n, n....
If this new service works as well as promised,
it could save organizations lots of time.
Let me know in the comments what your experience is with Azure VM Image Builder.
Azure IoT Central, or IoT Hub,
are the SaaS and PaaS offerings for creating very large IoT projects on Azure.
In the disjointed and "everything is a standard" world of IoT,
the Azure services attempt to make some sense of it all.
To add even more devices to IoT Central and Hub,
you can now use the new IoT Plug and Play mobile app for Android and
Apple devices. This will let you send telemetry data,
see device properties such as, you know, manufacturer and model,
execute commands, and upload media to Azure Storage.
This could be an efficient way to use existing devices as part of an IoT
deployment.
I'm sure the version for Windows phone is coming soon too.
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