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Azure Extended Zones in Perth

· 5 min read

Azure Extended Zones are small-footprint extensions of Azure placed in metros, industry centers, or a specific jurisdiction to serve low-latency and data-residency workloads. Azure Extended Zones supports virtual machines (VMs), containers, storage, and a selected set of Azure services and can run latency-sensitive and throughput-intensive applications close to end users and within approved data residency boundaries.

Recently announced Azure Extended Zones in Perth, Australia, provide a new option for customers to run their workloads (make note only a subset of resources are compatible) closer to home.

This is particularly beneficial for industries that require low latency and data residency, such as finance, healthcare, and government.

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Azure Container Registry Continuous Patching for Security

· 10 min read

Last year, I blogged about Container Patching with Azure DevOps, Trivy and Copacetic, and how to use Azure DevOps to automate the patching of your container images using Trivy and Copacetic. This was a great solution, but it required a lot of manual work to set up and maintain. Today, I am going to take a look at Continuous Patching with Azure Container Registry (ACR) and how to use it to automate the patching of your container images.