Essential Microsoft Resources for MVPs & the Tech Community from the AI Tour
Unlock the power of Microsoft AI with redeliverable technical presentations, hands-on workshops, and open-source curriculum from the Microsoft AI Tour! Whether you’re a Microsoft MVP, Developer, or IT Professional, these expertly crafted resources empower you to teach, train, and lead AI adoption in your community. Explore top breakout sessions covering GitHub Copilot, Azure AI, Generative AI, and security best practices—designed to simplify AI integration and accelerate digital transformation. Dive into interactive workshops that provide real-world applications of AI technologies. Take it a step further with Microsoft’s Open-Source AI Curriculum, offering beginner-friendly courses on AI, Machine Learning, Data Science, Cybersecurity, and GitHub Copilot—perfect for upskilling teams and fostering innovation. Don’t just learn—lead. Access these resources, host impactful training sessions, and drive AI adoption in your organization. Start sharing today! Explore now: Microsoft AI Tour Resources.Using Keycloak with Azure AD to integrate AKS Cluster authentication process
Integrating Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with Keycloak through Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) as an intermediary leverages Azure AD’s support for OpenID Connect (OIDC) to handle authentication and authorization. This integration enhances security, streamlines user management, and simplifies the authentication process for users accessing the AKS cluster.The FlixOne Bookstore Journey - WIN AN EBOOK PART 2: Hands-On Microservices with C# and .NET Core
This is a second post of the series, in the last post WIN AN EBOOK - Hands-On Microservices with C# 8 and .NET Core 3, Ed Price announced the survey. I would like to share a small story about the application we developed in the book. Our imaginary organization FlixOne Inc. is into an eCommerce business and they run an online store in the name of FlixOne Book Store. The FlixOne Book Store has a classic software built with monolith architecture.Lift, shift, and modernize using containers on Azure Service Fabric
Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that is the foundational technology powering core Azure infrastructure, as well as other Microsoft services such as Skype for Business, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL Database, Dynamics 365, Cortana, and many more. It makes building and managing scalable microservices and container applications for Windows and Linux easy. Service Fabric has supported container orchestration for production scenarios for several months now with the general availability announcement for Windows Server 2016 at Microsoft Build and Ubuntu Linux 16.04 at the Ignite conference. At Ignite, we demonstrated the scheduling, placement of a million containers on a cluster spanning 3500 nodes in under two minutes, which meant that you never have to worry about performance and scale with Service Fabric. We’ll have a more detailed post on this coming soon. In this post, we’ll call out some of the container orchestration capabilities in Service Fabric along with a peek at what’s coming soon. Many customers are looking at lift-and-shift followed by modernization of their applications, and Service Fabric provides first-class support for either scenario. Read about it in the Azure blog.Announcing Azure Service Fabric 5.5 and SDK 2.5
Customers around the world are delivering their mission critical business applications as always-on, scalable, and distributed services built using Azure Service Fabric. Last week we rolled out Azure Service Fabric 5.5 to Azure clusters in 26 regions across the world. We’re excited to announce the release of version 2.5 of the Azure Service Fabric SDK and the corresponding 5.5 release of the Azure Service Fabric runtime and standalone Windows Server installer. If you're using Visual Studio 2017, the Service Fabric tools are built in, so you'll only need to install the Microsoft Azure Service Fabric SDK. If you're using Visual Studio 2015, install the Microsoft Azure Service Fabric SDK and Tools. Learn more on the Azure blog.
