Azure updates

General Availability: Share VM images publicly with community gallery - Azure Compute Gallery feature

Target availability: Q3 2023

With community gallery, you can now share VM images with the broader Azure community.

• Management
• Features
• Gallery
• Open Source

Public preview: Share images across subscriptions and tenants with new Compute Gallery feature

Target availability: Q3 2022

Using direct shared gallery, a feature of Azure Compute Gallery, you can now share VM images directly with other subscriptions and tenants.

• Features
• Gallery

General availability: FIPS enabled node pool in Azure Kubernetes

You can now create FIPS 140-2 enabled node pools in AKS

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Features
• Gallery

General availability: Azure Sphere version 21.10

Version 21.10 is a feature update for the Azure Sphere OS, the SDK, supporting tools, and customer documentation.

• Azure Sphere
• Operating System
• SDK and Tools
• Gallery

Public preview: Azure Purview powered search in Azure Synapse Analytics workspaces

Enable effortless discovery of trustworthy, valuable data with an Azure Purview powered search within Synapse Studio.

• Azure Synapse Analytics
• Microsoft Purview
• Management
• Features
• Gallery

How to start with Azure Data Explorer—A new online course

A new online course that offers a comprehensive overview of data analytics with Azure Data Explorer is now available for free.

• Azure Data Explorer
• Services
• Management
• Gallery

Azure Service Health—Emerging issues now available

Service Health now surfaces new widespread Azure service issues which were previously only available on the Azure Status page.

• Azure Service Health
• Gallery

Flatcar Container Linux available in Azure Marketplace

Flatcar Container Linux by Kinvolk is now available in the Azure Marketplace. Flatcar is an immutable Linux distribution for containers, and a compatible fork of CoreOS Container Linux.

• Pricing & Offerings
• Operating System
• Gallery

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Bring-Your-Own-Subscription Gold Images now Generally Available in Azure

Target availability: Q1 2020

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) bring-your-own-subscription (BYOS) images, also referred to as RHEL Gold images, are now generally available in Azure with a simple automated sign-up process. This new automated sign-up process provides faster and simpler access to the gold images.

• Virtual Machines
• Linux Virtual Machines
• Red Hat Linux
• Services
• Pricing & Offerings
• Operating System
• Gallery
• Open Source

Egress lockdown in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now generally available

Achieve additional security by restricting outbound (egress) traffic for cluster nodes to a limited number of ports and addresses.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Security
• Features
• Gallery
• Open Source

New PowerShell scripts to streamline Azure Monitor Logs query and data collection

Two new scripts are available now in PowerShell Gallery to streamline the query and collection of logs into Azure Monitor Logs.

• Azure Monitor
• Gallery

Lenovo XClarity Integrator for Azure Log Analytics

Lenovo XClarity Integrator for Azure Log Analytics is available in the Azure Marketplace.

• Log Analytics
• Azure Monitor
• Gallery

Start/Stop VMs during off-hours in Azure Automation has been updated

Start/Stop VMs during off-hours in Azure Automation has been updated in the areas of email functionality, dependent modules, and runbooks.

• Alerts
• Automation
• Gallery

Announcing the new Azure Marketplace experience

The new Azure Marketplace experience will help you discover and deploy products, deep dive for more info, and get hands-on experience.

• HDInsight
• Marketplace
• Storage Accounts
• Virtual Machines
• Virtual Network
• Web Apps
• Services
• Features
• Gallery

Automation Runbook Gallery update

The Azure Automation Runbook Gallery supports script content from the PowerShell Gallery.

• Automation
• Services
• Features
• Gallery

Azure Automation: Graphical and PowerShell runbooks added to Gallery

To help with common automation tasks, four new graphical runbooks and two new PowerShell runbooks are available in the Automation gallery.

• Automation
• Gallery

MyGet available in the Microsoft Azure Store

MyGet provides hosted NuGet Servers. Developers can use their own packages to create and host NuGet feeds, or use another package source (such as NuGet.org).

• Gallery