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Azure HDInsight Tools for Visual Studio Code—Create, run, and debug notebook
This new release enables you to perform Jupyter-like notebook operations and boosts collaborations with one-click conversion between IPYNB and PY files.
New Azure Resource Manager templates capabilities released
Azure Resource Manager templates are widely used to manage deployments on Azure. It’s a way to intuitively describe your entire Azure environment using our template language. New capabilities that address key challenges at the time of doing deployments with Resource Manager templates are now available.
Azure HDInsight enterprise security enhancements
Target availability: Q2 2020
Azure HDInsight enterprise security enhancements include support for customer-managed key encryption with Azure Key Vault and a new feature, ID broker, which simplifies authentication setups.
March 2020
Updates to Azure HDInsight
Microsoft now fully supports distributions of Apache analytics projects in-house. Also, we’ll soon launch the next generation of HDInsight with improved provisioning and management experience, reserved instance pricing, low-priority virtual machines (VMs), and auto-scale.
January 2020
Azure HDInsight TLS 1.2 Enforcement
Target availability: Q1 2020
Starting on June 30, 2020, Azure HDInsight will enforce TLS 1.2 or later versions for all HTTPS connections. We recommend that you ensure that all your clients are ready to handle TLS 1.2 or later versions.
Azure HDInsight is now available in the UAE North region
Azure HDInsight is now available in the UAE North region.
Minimum virtual machine sizing for Azure HDInsight cluster head nodes
Beginning April 6, 2020, customers will be able to choose only 4-core or higher virtual machines (VMs) as head nodes for the new HDInsight clusters. Existing clusters will continue to run as expected.
December 2019
Azure Australia Central Region Changes
Effective 1 February 2020 , the pricing promotion for the Azure Australia Central regions will end and all services in Australia Central and Australia Central 2 will be price-matched to Australia East.
November 2019
Azure HDInsight—Simplify NSG rules management using service tags
Azure HDInsight now supports the use of service tags to simplify inbound network security group (NSG) rule management. Azure service tags group multiple IP addresses under a single user friendly tag. Administrators need to only create rules by referring to the tags while Microsoft takes the responsibility of keeping the IP addresses up to date. Administrators maintaining Azure HDInsight clusters can now benefit from this manageability improvement.
Azure HDInsight—Autoscale is now generally available
Autoscale for Azure HDInsight is now generally available across all regions for Apache Spark and Hadoop workloads. This feature makes it possible to operate your big data analytics workloads in a more cost-efficient and productive way, so you can drive higher use of your HDInsight clusters and pay only for what you need.
HDInsight HBase Accelerated Writes is now generally available
Target availability: Q4 2019
The accelerated writes feature in the HDInsight HBase cluster attaches a Premium SSD managed disk to every region server (worker node). Write ahead logs are configured to be written to Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) mounted on premium managed disks instead of standard Azure page blobs. Premium managed disks are SSD-based and offer excellent I/O performance with fault tolerance. Using premium managed disks for WALs allows us to separate write ahead log storage from Apache HBase data storage.
Azure HDInsight now enables you to customize Azure SQL Database for Ambari
A new Azure HDInsight capability enables you to customize and upgrade your Azure SQL Database for Apache Ambari during cluster creation.
Azure HDInsight—Restrict outbound network traffic by using Firewall
Target availability: Q4 2019
The integration of Azure HDInsight and Azure Firewall, in order to restrict outbound traffic from the cluster to unauthorized destinations, is now generally available.
September 2019
Azure HDInsight G-series VMs deprecation—Migrate before October 31, 2019
Target retirement date: October 31, 2019
Azure HDInsight will deprecate G-series virtual machines (VMs) on October 31, 2019. After this date, you won't be able to create any new clusters using G-series VMs or to scale up clusters having G-series nodes.
Azure CLI support for Azure HDInsight is now available
Azure CLI support for Azure HDInsight is now generally available. This enables administrators to easily manage their HDInsight clusters using simple Azure CLI commands.
August 2019
Azure Firewall feature updates for July 2019
Here are the Azure Firewall feature updates for July 2019.
July 2019
Apache Spark 2.4 and Apache Kafka 2.1 support on Azure HDInsight
Azure HDInsight now supports Apache Spark 2.4 and Apache Kafka 2.1. You can choose the Spark or the Kafka version that you want during cluster creation in the Azure portal. Both updates come with several new features, hundreds of bug fixes and improvements.
June 2019
Security Advisory: Patching Azure HDInsight clusters to address Linux Kernel TCP vulnerabilities
Azure HDInsight has updated against the vulnerabilities that affect the Linux kernel.
General availability: Azure Data Factory in China East 2
Azure Data Factory is now generally available in Azure China (China East 2).
HDInsight Tools for VSCode: Enhanced PySpark Interactive Query
We are pleased to announce the integration of VSCode Python extension to handle PySpark interactive for HDInsight in VSCode. The Azure HDInsight Tools for VSCode leverages the Python extension to…
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