Azure Container Storage offers highly scalable, cost-efficient, and performant storage, built natively for containers. Azure Container Storage simplifies management, deployment, and orchestration of storage volumes seamlessly across volume types including Azure Disk Storage, Azure Elastic SAN, and ephemeral disks. Vybava Ramadoss joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can scale up to multiple users in real time on JupyterHub with Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure Container Storage. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 02:23 - Why Azure Container Storage? 04:10 - Inside Azure Container Storage 06:15 - Demo setup 07:45 - Demo 16:10 - Wrap-up Recommended resources What is Azure Container Storage? Transforming containerized applications with Azure Container Storage—now in preview Quickstart: Use Azure Container Storage Preview with Azure Kubernetes Service Public preview: Azure Container Storage Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter: @Azure Contact the team

Socket.IO is a library for building low-latency, bidirectional and event-based communication between a client and a server. Now you can build real-time apps with Azure Web PubSub for Socket.IO and say goodbye to using adapters. Kevin Guo and Chenyang Liu are here to show Scott Hanselman how it works, today on Azure Friday. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:03 - What is Socket.IO? 02:19 - What pain point does this eliminate? 06:00 - Azure Trivia Game example app 13:05 - Scott peels back the cover 15:32 - Simple code change to implement 16:49 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Socket.IO on Azure blog post Overview Socket.IO on Azure Quickstart: Incorporate Web PubSub for Socket.IO in your app Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter: @Azure

Katherine Lu joins Scott Hanselman to explore the new capabilities of Elastic SAN, a new storage offering that offers a scalable, cost-effective, high-performance, and comprehensive storage solution for a range of compute options. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:41 - What is Azure Elastic SAN? 03:05 - Azure Elastic SAN capabilities 05:15 - Azure Elastic SAN demo 12:23 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Azure Elastic SAN What is Azure Elastic SAN? Deploy an Elastic SAN Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter: @Azure

Tom Kerkhove joins Scott Hanselman for a hands-on experience to demonstrate how enterprises can make the transition to API-first architectures and microservices in a hybrid, multicloud world with the self-hosted gateway in Azure API Management. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:03 - Concepts 06:38 - Demo setup 10:46 - Demo self-hosted gateway 23:09 - Wrap-up Recommended resources API gateway in Azure API Management Self-hosted gateway overview Guidance for running self-hosted gateway on Kubernetes in production Azure / api-management-self-hosted-gateway Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Tom Kerkhove | Twitter: @TomKerkhove Azure API Management | Twitter: @AzureApiMgmt Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter: @Azure

Harold Campos joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can use Azure Logic Apps to build native integration solutions for mainframes and midranges, including IBM DB2, Host Files, CICS, IMS, MQ, 3270 systems, and many more. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:27 - A brief history of mainframes and midranges 03:21 - Mainframe modernization 04:28 - Azure Logic Apps for legacy modernization 07:24 - Demo: Azure Logic Apps workflow and mainframe connectors 15:13 - Wrap-up Recommended resources What is Azure Logic Apps? What is HIS (Host Integration Server) Azure Integration Services Blog Azure Logic Apps: Cloud Native Capabilities to Integrate with Mainframe and Midranges Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Harold Campos | Twitter: @hcamposu Azure Logic Apps | Twitter: @logicappsio Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter: @Azure

Ben Murphy joins Scott Hanselman to walk through Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Insights, which is a native monitoring solution that gives you visibility into connection characteristics and optimization opportunities for your AVD environment. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:50 - Macro and micro analysis 01:33 - Overview tab 03:33 - Connection Diagnostics tab 04:44 - Connection Performance tab 05:37 - Utilization tab 12:20 - Clients tab 14:57 - Configuring AVD Insights 16:30 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Use Azure Virtual Desktop Insights to monitor your deployment Estimate Azure Virtual Desktop monitoring costs Autoscale scaling plans and example scenarios in Azure Virtual Desktop Azure Virtual Desktop Insights glossary Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter: @Azure

Liam Cavanagh joins Scott Hanselman to explain vector search in Azure Cognitive Search. Vector search is a method of searching for information within various data types, including image, audio, text, video, and more. It determines search results based on the similarity of numerical representations of data, called vector embeddings. Unlike keyword matching, vector search compares the vector representation of the query and content to find relevant results for users. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:55 - What vectors are 06:37 - How vector search works 12:06 - Vector search discussion 17:26 - Hybrid search 19:23 - Multi-modal: text and images 20:24 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Announcing Vector Search in Azure Cognitive Search Public Preview Azure Cognitive Search Vector search within Azure Cognitive Search Azure Cognitive Search AMA: Vector search, Azure OpenAI Service, generative apps, plugins & more Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Liam Cavanagh | Twitter: @liamca Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter: @Azure

Olivia Al Joundi and Sudhanva Huruli join Scott Hanselman to discuss the recently announced Azure Linux for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Azure Linux is Microsoft's Linux distribution and is Generally Available for use as an OS option in AKS. It provides added security, performance, and quality benefits for your Linux based Kubernetes workloads. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:38 - Why Azure Linux? 02:11 - Demo - az aks create 04:53 - Demo - kubectl debug 07:00 - Demo - add a new Azure Linux node pool to an existing cluster 12:48 - The Azure Linux difference 13:57 - Wrap-up Recommended resources What is the Azure Linux Container Host for AKS? Introducing the Azure Linux container host for AKS Core concepts for the Azure Linux Container Host for AKS Azure Linux: A container host OS for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Q&A Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Sudhanva Huruli | Twitter: @HuruliS Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter: @Azure

Rong Zhang and Tatsat Mishra join Scott Hanselman to talk about the latest updates for the AKS extension in VS Code that provides a fully integrated developer experience with Azure Kubernetes Services. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:00 - Overview with Rong 02:30 - Demo with Tats 11:22 - Content to get started 12:45 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Extension for Visual Studio Code Visual Studio Code AKS Tools docs Visual Studio Code AKS Tools installation Visual Studio Code AKS Tools features Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Related episodes Watch the previous episode Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Rong Zhang | Twitter: @RongZhang817 Tatsat Mishra | Twitter: @Tats_innit Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter: @Azure

Sean Noyes, Senior Cloud Solutions Architect from Redis, joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the latest advancements in Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise. Developers can enhance their applications with efficient index searching and global backups for cached data, all while reducing costs. Learn more about these new capabilities, including Active-Active, Persistence & CMK, Reserved Pricing, and RedisJSON. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 02:00 - Quick tour of what's new 06:22 - Scale and cache types 09:46 - Discussion of all things Redis 15:58 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Azure Cache for Redis Use Redis modules with Azure Cache for Redis Azure Cache for Redis Documentation Azure Cache for Redis pricing Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter: @Azure