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Service Fabric applications and services running in a Service Fabric cluster have then own first-class identity in Azure Active Directory so that they can securely communicate with Azure services.

Enable more granular upgrades than just standard five Upgrade Domain (UDs), so that individual nodes or UDs of different sizes can be chosen when performing application and cluster upgrades.

Azure Resource Manager (ARM) application and service deployment is currently in preview. This feature https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/service-fabric/service-fabric-application-arm-resource will be Generally Available in the v6.5 runtime release of Service Fabric.

Achieve higher reliability and resiliency by using Availability Zones (AZ)

Azure File volume disk is currently in preview. Using Azure Files for remote state storage for containers. For more details see https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/service-fabric/service-fabric-containers-volume-logging-drivers

Investigate suspicious requests, collect statistics, monitoring alerts and track who initiated and applied changes to the Service Fabric cluster via Azure AD accounts

Low Priority VM Scale Sets have no SLA, so are suitable only for scenarios where workloads can handle virtual machines being removed from the cluster with short/no notice at the…

Get started today with Windows Virtual Desktop in public preview. Deploy and scale Windows desktops and apps on Azure in minutes.

Azure Container Registry now supports container registries that can be placed within a Virtual Network , eliminating the public endpoint and enabling firewall rules for specific external resources access.

Effective April 1, 2019, the names for Container Registry will change.

Effective March 1, 2019, the resource GUIDs for Azure Container Instances Memory Duration and vCPU Duration will change.

Learn about updates made to the Azure portal for January 2019.

The serverless Azure Service Fabric Mesh Fall refresh is now available with improvements such as auto-scale and network and gateway resources in addition to storage improvements and fixes.

Azure Service Fabric runtime version 6.4 with the corresponding SDK and tooling updates is now available with many enhancements.

Using Bosh as the deployment mechanism provides a way to define the deployment, monitor the cluster and auto-heal the infrastructure.

ACI now allows developers to choose GPU enabled containers. GPUs are ideal for compute and graphics-intensive workloads. This enables developers to run intensive jobs required for machine learning.

Azure Container Instances supports Linux and Windows container groups in Canada Central.

Service Fabric, a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices and containers, is now available on Azure Stack.

With Virtual Network support, Azure Container Instances now supports deploying containers to new or existing Azure virtual networks. Azure Container Instances containers can have secure communication with other resources, such…

Azure Container Instances announces the public preview of managed identity support in all Container Instances regions.

The Azure portal received updates in October 2018.

Azure Container Instances supports Linux and Windows containers in two new regions: Central India (Pune) and South Central US (Texas).

You can now provision Linux containers into new or existing virtual networks with Azure Container Instances. This support is in preview for Linux in two regions: West US and West…

Windows Virtual Desktop enables you to get the best virtual desktop with the full Windows 10 and an optimized Office 365 ProPlus experience. It enables you to stream the full…

Azure Service Fabric announcements at Ignite

Azure Container Registry tasks, previously known as Azure Container Registry build, enables inner-loop development in the cloud with on-demand container image builds.

As customers deploy multi-container applications, Helm has evolved as the defacto standard to describe Kubernetes-based applications. With Helm repositories, customers can push their Helm Charts to Azure Container Registry, providing…

Azure Container Registry now supports OCI image format. Using projects like BuildKit, build and push OCI formatted container images.

Use Azure Container Registry tasks, now in preview, to define a series of steps to build, test, and validate your containers before they're deployed.

Azure Container Instances is available in three new regions. This change is in addition to new Azure CLI updates and moving to GA pricing.

Here are the latest new or enhanced capabilities for Azure Batch.

Azure Container Instances enables multiple features in the newest API release, such as YAML support for deployment/export via AZ CLI 2.0, Log Analytics integration, secure environment variables, and liveness probes.

Azure Container Registry provides a managed Docker registry service to store and manage private container images.

Azure Container Instances offers an on-demand compute service delivering rapid deployment of containers with no virtual machine management and elastic cloud scale.

Azure Service Fabric is a microservice platform for business critical applications.

Container Instances is now available in the West US, West US 2, East US, West Europe, North Europe, and Southeast Asia regions. Starting July 1, 2018, the global GUIDs will…

Azure Container Instances is generally available, with a decreased price, an improved Azure portal experience, new features, and expanded regions.

We have simplified creating secure Service Fabric clusters in the portal, and removed the option to create unsecure Service Fabric clusters.

Virtual Machines B-series naming will change on May 1, 2018, in all Azure Government regions.

Recent updates for Azure Container Instances include DNS name label support, streaming logs, and setting restart policies.

Effective January 1, 2018, the billing meter name for the Chaos Group V-Ray software will change to reflect the correct name of the software.

Starting November 15, 2017, Virtual Machines and Cloud Services will be available only in the Azure portal.

Service Fabric version 6.0 of the runtime and .NET SDK 2.8 are available. Service Fabric is generally available as a container orchestrator on Linux.

Learn about recent Batch updates for custom images, virtual networks, low-priority GA, and more.

Microsoft routinely maintains and updates Azure Cloud Shell, including the addition of new CLI tools to improve your productivity. Learn about the CLI tools we recently added.

Use mssql-scripter, an open-source command-line interface, to generate database scripts in Azure Cloud Shell.

Recent Batch updates for rendering, job task counts, and exposing ports on pool nodes.

Application packages can be used with VirtualMachineConfiguration pools, new metrics are available for low-priority VMs, and new template and file transfer capabilities are available in the Azure CLI for Batch.

Here's a summary of recent updates to Azure Batch.

Low-priority VMs are now available at a large discount compared to regular on-demand VMs.