Episode 174 – Azure Web App for Containers

In Episode 174, Ben and Scott dive into Azure App Service for Linux and Azure Web App for Containers as a hosting option for microservices and more. Transcript Email Download New Tab - [Ben] Welcome to episode 174 of the Microsoft cloud IT Pro podcast recorded live on April, 16, 2020. This is the show about Microsoft 365 and Azure from the perspective of IT Pros and end users. Where we discuss the topic or recent news and how it relates to you. In this episode, we talk about Azure services for Linux and Azure Web Apps for containers as a hosting option for microservices. - [Scott] You've made it to another Friday. - [Ben] Is that what day it is? - [Scott] It is, as Rebecca Black, do you remember that song Friday? - [Ben] Oh no, please, please - [Scott] Yes, no. - [Ben] No, no!!! - [Scott] I asked her, Well hold on. As she taught us, Friday is the day that comes after Thursday, right? Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday, today it is Friday, Friday partying, boom. - [Ben] But that would assume that I knew that yesterday was Thursday. - [Scott] Yeah, well, I'm just telling you like, "Hey, Rebecca Black could help you get through COVID-19." - [Ben] No, it hurts. - [Scott] Just to throw, Just to throw that out there for you. - [Ben] Well, we're almost through it, we have our escape plan now right? As of yesterday? - [Scott] Yeah. - [Ben] Although there's no timeline on our escape plan, it's just a plan. This is how we're going to escape at some point on time. - [Scott] Well It's phased and it's gated. It's very devopsy. They got that going for them, - [Ben] Yes. - [Scott] But, you know beaches are reopening today. We got that going for us. - [Ben] They are. But only for a few hours right? Cause I saw they're opening today at five but then it was like five to 8 p.m. And then 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. - [Scott] Yes, yeah. - [Ben] Which means-- - [Scott] Six hours a day. - [Ben] They are essentially trying to avoid people going out and hanging out all day because let's face it in Jacksonville nobody goes to the beach from eight till eleven, unless you're gonna go for a walk or run or something like that. And same thing from five to eight. It's hey, you can go take a walk, you can go take a run, you can go exercise, but you're not gonna go lay out and party at the beach all day. - [Scott] Yeah, no, it's one of those I go kinda like two ways about it. Cause you know people are gonna abuse it. - [Ben] Right. - [Scott] No matter what. There's gonna be lawn chairs and things out there now people have to patrol it and all those kinds of things but I am genuinely looking forward to just going back to the beach and being able to like stick my feet in the ocean again. Like that's one of the advantages of living here. - [Ben] Right. - [Scott] And being close to all of that, so... Yeah, I'm sad I can't take a lawn chair with me, but I'm not gonna be one of those people. But I am totally gonna go stick my feet in the ocean. - [Ben] Oh did they say no lawn chairs too? - [Scott] Yeah, they don't want you, like you said, congregating or any kind of chance of that going on. - [Ben] I missed that part. It was interesting though because of the-- - [Scott] It was in like the Sheriff's webcast about it. - [Ben] Okay. - [Scott] So it's not in the official thing but they did call it out in the Sheriff's one so I think they're gonna be kinda going by and talking to people. - [Ben] So did you read the whole article, this made me laugh. Primarily because it's so interesting to me. I have family in other states and everybody has their different definition of essential activities when they put these stay at home orders in place. It's like, hey you can only go on the beach for essential activities. And in Florida, based on governor, the governor's executive order, essential activities include, participating in recreational activities consistent with social distancing guidelines such as walking, biking, hiking, fishing, running, swimming, taking care of pets and surfing. - [Ben] So if you're in Florida, surfing, swimming, I mean I get some of it's exercise based but then you look at places like Michigan where they're not even allowed to do any residential or commercial construction projects. Those are considered nonessential. In Florida surfing is essential. - [Scott] As it should be. I have a weather reporting app. So I don't surf but I go out and go paddle boarding, and the weather reporting app follows all the cameras up and down the beaches and the inner coastal here just so, sometimes it's not about even like wind speed or tide or things like that, it's really just about how calm it is out there cause there's some parts of the inner coastal and things that are-- - [Ben] Do you ever go paddle boarding in like six foot waves? - [Scott] You know sometimes I would, but my paddle boards and inflatables so just so its a little bit more implorable for me to get around. And it needs to be like really calm and really flat in the ocean, just to kinda keep the stability needed. It's not a paddle board that you wouldn't necessarily surf in on - [Ben] Got it. - [Scott] You know if I went out and bought like an eleven foot board that was a hard deck, then I could do some different things, but, yeah. I'm looking forward to having the ability to have just at least one extra option for something to do. - [Ben] Yeah. No I get it, like, I totally wish we lived closer and who knows. If this goes on much longer we may just drive out there some morning just to let the kids go run around and walk on the beach for a little bit. Because we are starting to get a little stir crazy. - [Scott] Just bring your bikes, you park at my house, you make the kids ride their bikes to the beach and then make them ride back and they're all good and tired, you know. - [Ben] Oh, except then they fall asleep in the car on the way home, and then they don't want to take a nap. - [Scott] Well it just means you get to drive the car around longer. It needs to be run anyway, you know, it's not like you're going out every day anymore. - [Ben] We were talking the other day, we couldn't even remember the last time we put gas in the car. - [Scott] It's been a while so I had to run an errand yesterday or at least I thought I had to run an errand, where I was just gonna go pick up my dog's medication, like flea and tick stuff right, we were in and out. - [Ben] Yep. - [Scott] And so I was walking out of the house and my wife said, oh don't worry about it. I've got to go out later to pick up groceries so I'll go do it. And I thought to myself, you know, I'm already like halfway out the door. I put my keys in my pocket you know, I got like my wallet in my pocket, this hasn't happened in a long time, this is oh exciting. So I kinda stood there in the garage with the garage door open, looking at my car and I said, all right well I'm just gonna start it up, cause it's gotta be started anyway. And then that turned into, well I should really just drive it around the neighborhood. So one friend I used to like lazy roll, just kinda like basically around the long block which you know takes like 10 minutes to drive around the neighborhood and do all that. And I was like yeah, I got to drive a car today. That was crazy. - [Ben] Did you put your seat back, roll down your windows and crank up your music too? - [Scott] No, I really should have though. You know everybody likes to see that Malibu rolling through. - [Ben] You know you gotta show it off. Oh here is your new quote Scott, this came from Michigan's governor. Speaking of quotes from governors, ''It is better to be six feet apart right now than six feet under.'' - [Scott] Yes. True statement, your outlook on things, yes, that is absolutely true. - [Ben] All things that make us laugh. Yeah I have all kinds of those. I will say the memes out of all this have been great. So, with all of that, all that said, should we talk about other stuff, like cloudy, cloudy stuff - [Scott] Yeah. - [Ben] Since its, is it cloudy today? It supposed to be raining this week. That's the only downside of the beaches opening it's supposed to rain all weekend. - [Scott] I will make do. - [Ben] All right, take an umbrella. - [Ben] Outlook Add-Ins are a great way to improve productivity and save time in the workplace. And Sperry Software has all the Add-Ins you'll ever need. The save as PDF Add-In is the a best seller and is great for project back ups, legal discovery and more. This Add-In saves the email and attachment as PDF files. It's easy to download, easy to install and Sperry Software's unparalleled customer service is always ready to help. Download a free trial at sperrysoftware.com, s-p-e-r-r-y-s-o-f-t-w-a-r-e.com and see for yourself how great save as PDF is. Listeners can get 20% off their order today by entering the code cloudIT. 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