Hello Folks,
We are back with AzUpdate. We took some time off the last couple of weeks in support of the Ukrainian people. This week we are back, but still, carry them in our hearts.
Vinícius Apolinário (@vrapolinario) is joining me this week to cover some of the news around Microsoft Azure. This week we will cover Azure Backup, Azure Cost Management, Container Runtime, and Azure Monitor
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Azure Backup support for trusted launch Azure Virtual Machines
Trusted launch protects against advanced and persistent attack techniques such as Firmware rootkits, boot kits, kernel rootkits, driver rootkit, etc. by leveraging several, coordinated infrastructure technologies that can be enabled independently.
These technologies, such as secure boot, vTPM, VBS, and others, are available as part of Gen2 VMs on Azure and now you can use Azure Backup with Enhanced Policy to backup Azure VMs with trusted launch.
Azure Backup with Enhanced Policy protects Azure VMs with newer Azure offerings, such as Trusted Launch VM, UltraSSD, Shared disk, and Confidential Azure VMs – not available on the default policy.
Using containerd with Windows Server node pools on Azure Kubernetes Service
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) has been following the Kubernetes community with the shift from Docker to containerd as its default container runtime. In fact, since Kubernetes 1.19, containerd has been the default container runtime for Linux node pools. With Kubernetes version 1.23 and newer, containerd is now the default container runtime for Windows node pools.
Customers with existing Windows node pools on version 1.22 an older can use the following command
“az aks nodepool upgrade” with the “--aks-custom-headers WindowsContainerRuntime=containerd” flag
to upgrade their existing node pools to containerd.
Azure Cost Management - Schedule automated emails of your saved cost views
Cost analysis is used to explore costs and get quick answers for things like finding the top cost contributors or understanding how you're charged for the services you use. As you analyze cost, you may find specific views you want to save or share with others.
Now, with this preview service, you can stay informed about changes to your cost in Azure Cost Management and Billing with scheduled emails.
From cost analysis, select a private or shared chart view, click the subscribe command to manage all emails for this view, then click +add to configure a new email alert. That way you can subscribe to daily, weekly, or monthly updates and can even share those views with people outside the portal. That’s a great way of staying on top of things.
Azure Monitor
You can now define export rules for unsupported tables, and the data will automatically populate as they get supported. Data export is designed for scale and can support Terabytes of logs per day for each of your workspaces. Data export flow relies on destination resources that you own and manage, and you must assure sufficient ingress capacity for proper export operation and prevent failures.
When you configure an export rule, new ingested data to specified tables in your workspace is also sent to your destination from Azure Monitor pipeline, as it arrives, and without any filter on data.
We will gradually add more streams to the export infrastructure, excluding the classic custom logs functionality. The new generation of custom logs, including many new capabilities such as transformation and filtering at ingestion time, will be supported instead.
There is more information on the Azure Monitor Blog. Check it out.
MS Learn Module of the Week
This week considering we covered some cost management and billing we thought it would be a great idea to review the Control Azure spending and manage bills with Azure Cost Management + Billing leaning path and Learn how to monitor and control your Azure spending and optimize the use of Azure resources..
Check it out!
Have a great weekend and we’ll see you online. Please no not hesitate to comment below. We would love your comments and suggestions.
Cheers!
Pierre