Microsoft Build is annual and one of the biggest conference that always brings TONS of updates and announcements across the entire Microsoft technology stack with focus on developer tools, products and Azure cloud platform. The Build 2020 hadn’t been canceled and was transformed to a digital/online event that took place May 19-20.
Key news highlights (my favourite)
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) resource provider on Azure Stack preview
- New Azure extensions for Visual Studio Code
- Azure Container Registry support for Azure Private Link and firewall is now available
- Visual Studio Codespaces: New OS Support & GitHub integration
- Visual Studio Live Share now supports voice chat
- New network tier with routing preference is now available in preview
- Azure Kubernetes Service now supports Windows Server containers, private clusters and other features
- Windows Terminal 1.0 now available for enterprise use
- Windows Packager Manager Preview (a tool to search, install and view commonly used developer tools; available at Windows Store; for manual installation go to the official GitHub repo)
- Azure Resource Template enhancements (What-If Analysis and etc.). I’ve already tried What-If in my ARM templates during a private preview and really enjoyed it. What-if reminds me a Terraform plan which allows you to asses impact of a deployment to an environment before submitting any changes to the deployed resources (see my tweet with some notes)
Official guide to the key event announcements
UseIT | Roman Levchenko 