Reading Time: 2 minutes Azure Network Watcher’s Connection Monitor feature is now GA. It is a very handy feature that helps you identify any connection problems and diagnose network issues spanning from Azure to on-premises networks.
Many new features for Azure VPN Gateway
Reading Time: 3 minutes Microsoft announced a number of new and exciting features for Azure VPN Gateway resource. A couple of them, at least to me, are very important and will make our life easier in the trenches.
New features for Windows Server containers in Azure Kubernetes Service
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Several new features for Windows Server containers in Azure Kubernetes Service are now available. The following summarizes these new features:
Diagnostics support for Windows Server containers in AKS: Azure Kubernetes Service diagnostics (preview) now supports Windows Server containers. Learn more.
Node auto-repair for Windows Server containers in AKS: Azure Kubernetes Service node auto-repair now detects unhealthy Windows Server nodes and automatically repairs them when issues are encountered (GA). Learn more.
Constrained vCPU capable Azure VMs
Reading Time: 2 minutes This offering of constrained vCPU capable VMs has been around for quite a while in Azure. Use it for your SQL Server or Oracle servers that are not CPU intensive but need the rest of the resources RAM, IO, network to be of a larger VM but with a lower price because of fewer cores to license.
New Azure Resource Manager templates capabilities released
Reading Time: < 1 minute New capabilities for Resource Manager templates are now available to help address some key challenges. Check the useful links.
