187 posts tagged with "Azure"

A recent release to Azure API Management is - MCP server support, the ability to expose a REST API in API Management as an MCP server.

Today we are going to look at hosting a Container in Container Apps, which is used to host a Container that has a VNC server installed, running DOSBox.

Why would you do this? Could be a few reasons, but common reasons might be looking at running legacy applications that require a GUI (Graphical User Interface) in a more modern and isolated environment, allowing for quick internal access to resources, or just for fun.

Partner Admin Link (PAL) tool is a .NET application that helps Microsoft partners link their Partner Admin Link (PAL) to all accessible Microsoft Entra tenants, enabling proper partner recognition and revenue attribution.

Partner Admin Link (PAL) enables Microsoft to identify and recognize partners who drive Azure customer success. By linking your Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program (Associated PartnerID) to customer tenants, Microsoft can:

✅ Attribute revenue from your customers' Azure consumption to your organization ✅ Recognize your impact on customer success and business outcomes ✅ Provide insights into your partner engagement effectiveness ✅ Enable partner incentives based on customer growth

Chat Modes are predefined configurations that enable you to tailor the AI chat behavior in Visual Studio Code for specific tasks, such as asking questions, making code edits, or performing autonomous coding tasks. You can switch between chat modes at any time in the Chat view, depending on the task you want to accomplish. Chat Modes enable us to customise the response from GitHub Copilot, providing more specific tools and commands.

Very much like custom Copilot Instructions, which can work alongside the custom chatmodes, the chatmodes allow more specific structure, in this example, we will create a custom chat mode, that can assist us with writing and editing documentation for Microsoft Learn, aligned to the Microsoft Writing Style.

Microsoft recently unveiled Service Groups in Azure, now available in limited public preview - sign up for the preview and test it out! You need to have been enrolled in the public preview to provision them, either through the Portal or via the API (i.e., Terraform, Bicep, PowerShell, REST API calls, etc.).

If you’ve ever struggled with managing sprawling applications across multiple resource groups, subscriptions, and teams, Service Groups are designed with you in mind.

Where Azure Policy, Resource Graph, Tags, and Management Groups give you compliance, visibility, and hierarchy, Service Groups add an entirely new dimension: flexible, application-centric grouping of your Azure resources, without being limited by deployment boundaries.

Imagine being able to view, report on, and manage an entire application or workload, regardless of where its resources reside. Whether you’re in FinOps trying to track costs, in Ops trying to view health, or a security lead wanting to understand exposure, Service Groups give you the lens you’ve been missing.

Today we are going to look at using the Terraform AzAPI to deploy Service Groups in Azure.