Listen "Episode 511 - Semantic Kernel and File Shares"
Episode Synopsis
Cale and Sujit discuss their current projects in Azure as 2024 comes to a close. They also cover a ton of AKS updates.
Semantic Kernel makes it easier for developers to build Azure Open AI applications that can also include SLMs like Phi-4.
Azure has many options to use File Shares and Volumes, and we walk through the process of figuring out which one is right for your needs.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode511.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/dLfCJ6btKng
Resources:
Semantic Kernel - https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel
Journey with SK on OpenAI and AzureOpenAI
Ollama (running SLM local) - https://github.com/ollama/ollama
Ollamazure (running SLM that looks like Azure OpenAI) - https://github.com/sinedied/ollamazure
PhiSilica - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ai/apis/phi-silica
File Shares: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-introduction
Other updates:
Lots of AKS updates!
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/concepts-network-isolated
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/azure/azure-kubernetes/availability-performance/container-image-pull-performance
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/imds-restriction
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/use-windows-gpu
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/?id=471295
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/tutorial-restore-aks-backups-across-regions
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/app-routing-nginx-configuration?tabs=azurecli#control-the-default-nginx-ingress-controller-configuration-preview
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/automated-deployments
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/aks-extension-ghcopilot-plugins
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/containers/container-insights-logs-schema#kubernetes-metadata-and-logs-filtering
Semantic Kernel makes it easier for developers to build Azure Open AI applications that can also include SLMs like Phi-4.
Azure has many options to use File Shares and Volumes, and we walk through the process of figuring out which one is right for your needs.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode511.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/dLfCJ6btKng
Resources:
Semantic Kernel - https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel
Journey with SK on OpenAI and AzureOpenAI
Ollama (running SLM local) - https://github.com/ollama/ollama
Ollamazure (running SLM that looks like Azure OpenAI) - https://github.com/sinedied/ollamazure
PhiSilica - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ai/apis/phi-silica
File Shares: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-introduction
Other updates:
Lots of AKS updates!
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/concepts-network-isolated
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/azure/azure-kubernetes/availability-performance/container-image-pull-performance
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/imds-restriction
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/use-windows-gpu
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/?id=471295
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/tutorial-restore-aks-backups-across-regions
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/app-routing-nginx-configuration?tabs=azurecli#control-the-default-nginx-ingress-controller-configuration-preview
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/automated-deployments
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/aks-extension-ghcopilot-plugins
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/containers/container-insights-logs-schema#kubernetes-metadata-and-logs-filtering
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