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Azure Virtual Networks use private IP addresses which aren’t routable on public networks. To enable support networks that exist both in Azure and on-prem environments, we need to configure IP addressing for both networks. Public IP addresses allow resources on the internet to communicate with Azure, and also enable outbound communication for Azure resources to public-facing services on the internet. In Azure, we can create public IP addresses and assign them to specific resources. ...

Azure Virtual Networks (or VNETs) are the fundamental building block for private networks in Azure. We can built Azure VNETs that are similar to on-prem networks, with the benefit of Azure infrastructure. We can create VNETs with their own CIDR block, and link them to other Azure VNETs and on-prem networks (providing that there’s no overlap with CIDR blocks). We can also control DNS server settings, segmentation of VNETs into subnets, and more. ...

Azure Container Apps allows your apps to secure sensitive configuration values as secrets. Once you define your secrets, you can pass them as configuration to revisions of your Container Apps, and as secured values to your scale rules. In this article, I’ll discuss what secrets are, where we can define secrets, and how we can reference them in our application’s environment variables. If you want to watch a video that talks about these concepts, check out the video below! ...

Earlier on this week, I gave a presentation to two user groups on the Radius project. If you want to check them out you can view them here: This one is from Coding Nights NZ, run by Microsoft MVP Marcel Medina: The other is from the Azure Community Enthusiasts User Group, run by Microsoft MVP Nicholas Chang: ...

In Azure AI Search, semantic ranking improves our searches by using language understanding to rerank search results. Semantic search is a collection of query capabilities that improve the quality of search results using text-based queries. Using semantic search we can: Improve Search Results by adding a ranking over initial search results using advanced algorithms that consider the context and meaning of the query, resulting in more relevant search outcomes. Provides Additional Information by extracting and displaying captions and answers from search results, which can be used to improve the user’s search experience. In this article, we’ll talk a little about Semantic Search is in Azure AI Search, its advantages and limitations, how to set it up in Azure AI search, and how we can perform semantic searches using C#. ...