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Azure Advent Calendar #4: Azure Lighthouse

04/12/201907/01/2025
by Martin Ehrnst

Door #4

Behind door number four of the Azure Advent Calendar 2019, we find Azure Lighthouse. Lighthouse provides simplified resource management in Azure cross tenants.
This makes it very interesting for larger enterprises, who often separate their user directory from the services. And for managed service providers, who deliver services to multiple customers, seeking the utopia of single-pane management.

You can find my video here, and all other contributions on the YouTube channel.

Azure Lighthouse resources

If you want to read more about Azure Lighthouse and it’s capabilities, I recommend the official documentation and the official GitHub repository
For more community-related content, I suggest you check Wesley Haakmans blog.

Azure Advent Calendar is such a great initiative from Gregor Suttie and Richard Hooper. I really dig how the Azure community put together all this content- thank you.
I am sure it will be a great success and hopefully continue in the years to come.

Thank you for having me on.

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Microsoft Ignite 2019 announcements and news

04/11/201907/01/2025
by Martin Ehrnst

It is Monday morning and Ignite announcements are coming in fast. The releases itself aren’t that groundbreaking as previous years, but looking at them from 10.000 feet they represent something very interesting in my opinion.

At Microsoft Ignite in 2015, we were pitched that everyone should run in the public cloud only.
Over the years, Microsoft has invested heavily in the hybrid scenario, introducing Azure stack and other services. With the announcements from Ignite 2019, I feel like we are completing the circle. Azure Arc lets us manage on-premises as we do with Azure, using ARM. Azure Functions are getting more hybrid/local benefits, and the same goes for many of the other services.

Below you can find what I find particularly interesting. Expect this list to evolve and change throughout the week.

For all announcements from Ignite 2019 read the Microsoft Ignite Book of news

Azure Arc

If you think Microsoft all over your infrastructure already. Azure Arc extends Azure management to any cloud and on-premises. I am really looking forward to testing this out! ARM templates on-premises?

Azure Monitor

Azure monitor itself doesn’t get any new features. But all other services get better integration with Azure Monitor. Prometheus support is GA, and hybrid monitoring for containers (kubernetes) is announced as a preview.

Azure Functions

As with the announcement of Azure Arc. Support for multi-cloud and hybrid cloud continues to evolve with Azure Functions. Premium support is now GA, as well as PowerShell. With Powershell support in functions, and Premium plan with hybrid support. I am keen to hear about the future of Azure Monitor.

Azure Cost Management for CSP

Finally. If you know the struggle you are probably as excited as I am, that Azure Cost Management now is available for CSP subscriptions. This means that we can provide cost management seamlessly across all subscription models, and leverage the same APIs

Tags for subscriptions

A long-awaited feature. The ability to add tags to subscriptions is finally available.

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Ignite 2019 session tips

04/11/201907/01/2025
by Martin Ehrnst

Ignite 2019 is just around the corner, and we have a lot to look forward to. According to the session builder, there are almost 2000 sessions to choose from. Even Monday has 321!

In this post, I will share what I think you should look out for and what sessions to attend.

Keynotes

First things first. Monday is packed with keynotes. Satya Nadella’s vision keynote will tell us how Microsoft sees the future and sets the mood for the coming week. We can also expect a few announcements coming as well.

After the vision keynote, each product team has their own technology keynote. These are usually really good and packed with demos.
For Ignite 2019 I am not sure which I will attend. But it will be one of these two:

Breakout sessions

One hot tip that I have, is the ability to chose a learning path. This lets you add all breakout sessions within the learning path, and with that have consistency in your sessions. If you’re going à la carte, I think these sessions look interesting.

Hallway sessions

Ignite 2019 have a great option called Expert Connect. Here you can schedule to meet subject matter experts and discuss your real-world challenges.

Personally, I have cut down on the number of sessions that I attend each day. And instead, I am prioritizing side meetings and the occasional “hallway session”.
Most of the breakout sessions are available on-demand when you get home.
If you want to meet, let me know!

Azure Advent Calendar #4: Azure Lighthouse

Door #4

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