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At Microsoft, building a future that we can all thrive in is at the center of everything we do. On January 16, as part of the announcement that Microsoft will be carbon negative by 2030, we discussed how advances in human prosperity, as measured by GDP growth, are inextricably tied to the use of energy. Microsoft has committed to deploy $1 billion into a new climate innovation fund to accelerate the development of carbon reduction and removal technologies that will help us and the world become carbon negative. The Azure IoT team continues to invest in the platforms and tools that enable solution builders to deliver new energy solutions, customers to empower their workforce, optimize digital operations and build smart, connected, cities, vehicles, and buildings.

Earlier, Microsoft committed $50 Million through Microsoft AI for Earth that provides technology, resources, and expertise into the hands of those working to solve our most complex global environmental challenges. Challenges like helping customers around the world meet their energy and sustainability commitments. Our partnership with Vattenfall illustrates how we will power new Swedish datacenter locations with renewable energy and our partnership with E.ON who manages low-voltage distribution grids is challenging the limits of traditional technology for low-voltage distribution grids through an inhouse IoT platform based on Microsoft Azure IoT Hub.

Over the past few years, our engineers have had the pleasure to connect with and learn from a large ecosystem of energy solution builders and customers that are proactively shifting their consumption priorities. Transmission system operators (TSOs) are focused on transforming grid operations while distribution system operators (DSOs) and utilities are approaching their customers with new solutions, and all participants are requesting better, more accurate, more secure data.

As millions of new electric vehicles are entering our roads, new challenges arise around the transformation of the energy grid that moves us in our daily commutes. At the heart of these transformations are solutions that help energy providers get connected, stay connected, and transform their businesses through devices, insights, and actions.

Late 2019, we announced updates to Azure IoT Central to help solution builders move beyond proof of concept to building business-critical applications they can brand and sell directly or through Microsoft AppSource. Builders can brand, customize, and make their own apps using extensibility via APIs, data connectors to business applications, repeatability, and manageability of their investment through multitenancy and seamless device connectivity. Two IoT Central energy app templates for solar panel and smart meter monitoring already help energy solution builders accelerate development.

Azure IoT Central Energy App Templates.

DistribuTECH 2020

DistribuTECH International is the leading annual transmission and distribution event that addresses technologies used to move electricity from the power plant through the transmission and distribution systems to the meter and inside the home. Held January 28 to January 30 in San Antonio, Texas, we invited 8 leading Energy solution builders to join us at DistribuTECH to demonstrate how they have leveraged Azure IoT to deliver amazing innovation. These partners will join Azure IoT Experts who are available to discuss your business scenarios or get more specific on IoT devices, working with IoT data and delivering a secure solution from the edge to the cloud.

Partners fueling intelligent energy

NXP EdgeVerse™ platform: intelligently manage grid load securely at the edge

The shift to vehicle electrification requires a completely different fueling infrastructure than gas-powered vehicles. Drivers of electric vehicles need to trust they can fuel for every occasion—everywhere, anytime and not get stranded. Every electric utility vehicle in a managed fleet, for example, must be authorized to charge without overloading the grid during peak times.

To manage grid load intelligently, edge computing and security becomes vital. NXP and Microsoft have demonstrated “Demand Side Management” of a smart electric vehicle charging grid and infrastructure running on NXP’s EdgeVerse™ using Azure IoT Central. This solution helps reduced development risk and speed time to market. NXP EdgeVerse includes the NXP Layerscape LS1012 processor and i.MX RT 1060 series, integrated in Scalys TrustBox Edge, to provide best-in-class power efficiency and the most secure (portable) level of communication solution that connects to Azure IOT Central. As the fueling model shifts from petroleum to electric, intelligent management of grid load balancing is key.

OMNIO.net: Danish IoT connectivity startup onboarding devices and unifying data

OMNIO.net, a Danish Industrial IoT connectivity startup, is partnering with Microsoft Azure IoT to solve two of the biggest hurdles in Industrial IoT: onboarding of devices and unification of data.

OMNIO.net is helping companies of all sizes who have outfitted their campuses with solar panels. The OMNIO.net solution connected these panels to Azure IoT Hub to gather real-time data that will help optimize energy production and limit downtime. Companies look to OMNIO.net to overcome challenges connecting industrial devices and getting the most from their data. What may have taken months in the past, with the combination of OMNIO.net’s energy expertise and Azure IoT offers device connection for partners in less than 24 hours, so customers can focus on using their data to solve pressing business challenges rather than on IT.

iGen Technologies: a self-powered heating system for your home

iGen Technologies’ i2 is a self-power heating system for residential homes. With its patented technology, i2 sets a new benchmark in home comfort and efficiency, by generating, storing and using its own electricity, keeping the heat on, even during a grid outage. The system delivers resilience, lower operating costs, efficiency gains, and greenhouse gas emission reductions. The fully integrated solution offers a dispatchable resource with fuel switching capability, providing utilities a valuable tool to manage peak load and surplus generation situations. iGEN has partnered with Microsoft Azure IoT Central to develop a smart IoT interface for the i2 heat and power system. The integration of iGEN’s distributed energy resource (DER) technology with Microsoft’s robust IoT app platform offers an ideal solution for utility Demand Response programs.

The i2 self-powered heating system.

Agder Energi, NODES: scaling a sustainable and integrated energy marketplace

Distributed energy resources, digitalization, decarbonization, and new consumer behavior introduce challenges and opportunities for grid system operators to maintain reliable operation of the power system and create customer-centric services. The NODES marketplace relies on Azure to scale its flexible marketplace across 15 projects in 10 different European countries. The focus is on the use of flexibility from the distribution grid, transmission and distribution coordination, and integration with current balancing markets. Agder Energi is now piloting a flexible asset register and data hub with device management and analytics built on IoT Central. Rune Hogga, CEO of Agder Energi Flexibility, told us, "In order to have control of the data and be able to verify flexibility trades, Azure IoT Central provides us with a fast and efficient way to set up a system to collect data from a large number of distributed flexible assets."

L&T Technology Services: reducing carbon consumption and emissions

L&T Technology Services (LTTS) has developed low carbon and EV charging grid solutions for global enterprises, buildings, and smart cities. The LTTS Smart City, Campus & Building solutions enable reducing carbon emissions by up to 40 percent through its iBEMS on Azure solution by connecting an entire building's infrastructure to through single unified interface. In collaboration with Microsoft Real Estate & Facilities, LTTS is building breakthrough EV Charging Solutions providing actionable insights and usage patterns, demand forecasting, design and efficiency anomalies for Facility Managers on EV Charger assets while accurately tracking carbon credit. The LTTS solution also enables Facility Managers to optimize EV Charging Grid based on energy sources (geothermal, solar, electric) and grid constraints such as energy capacity, providing consumer EV charging notifications-based drive range preferences.

Telensa: utilities to support the business case for smart street lighting

Telensa makes wireless smart city applications, helping cities and utilities around the world save energy, work smarter, and deliver more cohesive services for their residents. Telensa is demonstrating how utilities can support the business case for smart street lighting, offering a platform to simply and seamlessly add other smart city applications like traffic monitoring, air quality and EV charging with AI-driven data insights. Telensa’s smart city solutions are increasingly built on Microsoft Azure IoT, leveraging the combination of data, devices, and connectivity, making IoT applications a practical proposition for any city.

Telensa is leading the Urban Data Project, with an initial deployment in Cambridge, UK. This new edge-AI technology is generating valuable insights from streetlight-based imaging, creating a trusted infrastructure for urban data to enable cities to collect, protect, and use their data for the benefit of all residents. The first deployment is in Cambridge, UK. Telensa’s Urban IQ, using Microsoft Power BI for data visualization is an open, low-cost platform to add multiple sensor applications.

Telensa’s streetlight based multi-sensor pods, which run on Azure IoT Edge and feature real-time AI and machine learning to extract insights.

eSmart Systems: improving powerline inspections and asset optimization by empowering human experts with Collaborative AI

eSmart Systems helps utilities gain insight into their assets by creating a virtuous cycle of collaboration and training between subject matter experts like Distribution or Transmission Engineers and state of the art deep learning artificial intelligence (AI).

A Microsoft finalist for AI energy partner of the year in 2019, eSmart’s Connected Drone software uses the Azure platform for accurate and self-improving power grid asset discovery and analysis. Grid inspectors continuously review results and correct them to feedback more accurate results to the system. Utilities can optimize visual data to improve their asset registries, reduce maintenance costs and improve reliability.

Kongsberg Digital: Grid Logic digital twin services for electrical grids

Increased electrification and introduction of intermittent, distributed, and renewable energy production challenge today’s grid operations. A lack of sufficient data and insights lead to over-investment, capacity challenges, and power quality issues. With Grid Logic digital twin services running on Azure, grid operators get forecasting and insights into hotspots and scenario simulation. With Azure IoT Hub, Grid Logic will make it possible to build a robust operating system for automation of real-time grid operation, optimization, and automation.

Grid Logic capacity heatmap for a part of Norwegian DSO BKK Nett’s grid.

Let’s connect and collaborate to build your energy solutions

Microsoft Azure IoT is empowering businesses and industries to shape the future with IoT. We’re ready to meet and support you wherever you are in your transformation journey. Pairing a strong portfolio of products and partners will help you accelerate building robust IoT solutions, to achieve your goals. If you are attending DistribuTECH 2020, speak with Azure IoT experts, or connect with one of the partners mentioned above.

Learn more about Microsoft Azure IoT and IoT for energy

Partner links:

Adger Energi
eSmart Igen
Konsgberg
L&T Technologies Services and L&T Power
Nodes Market NXP
Omnio
Telensa

Quelle: Azure

27. Januar 2020

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Community Collaboration on Notary v2

One of the most productive meetings I had KubeCon in San Diego last November was a meeting with Docker, Amazon and Microsoft to plan a collaboration around a new version of the CNCF project Notary. We held the Notary v2 kickoff meeting a few weeks later in Seattle in the Amazon offices.

Emphasising that this is a cross-industry collaboration, we had eighteen people in the room (with more dialed in) from Amazon, Microsoft, Docker, IBM, Google, Red Hat, Sylabs and JFrog. This represented all the container registry providers and developers, other than the VMware Harbor developers who could unfortunately not make it in person. Unfortunately, we forgot to take a picture of everyone!

@awscloud, @GCPcloud, @Azure, @Docker, @RedHat, @jfrog collaborating on @CloudNativeFdn Notary v2 – touring the amazon spheres. Who would have thought… https://t.co/6VL3OucX0c pic.twitter.com/rNglQIO5ZM— Steve Lasker (@SteveLasker) December 15, 2019

The consensus and community are important because of the aims of Notary v2. But let’s go back a bit as some of you may not know what Notary is and what it is for.

The Notary project was originally started at Docker back in 2015 to provide a general signing infrastructure for containers based on The Update Framework (TUF), a model for package management security developed by Justin Cappos and his team at New York University. This is what supports the “docker trust” set of commands that allow signing containers, and the DOCKER_CONTENT_TRUST settings for validating signatures.

In 2017, Notary was donated to the CNCF, along with the TUF specification, to make it a cross-industry standard. It began to be shipped in other places as well as Docker Hub, including the Docker Trusted Registry (now a Mirantis product), IBM’s container registry, the Azure Container Registry, and with the Harbor project, another CNCF project. TUF also expanded its use cases, in the package management community, and in projects such as Uptane, a framework for updating firmware on automobiles.

So why a version 2 now? Part of the answer is that we learnt a lot of things about the usage of containers since 2015. Are container years like dog years? I am not sure, but a lot has happened since then, and the usage of containers has expanded enormously. I covered a lot of the reasons in-depth in my KubeCon talk:

Supply chain security – making sure that you ship what you intended to ship into production – has become increasingly important, as attacks on software supply chains have increased in recent years. Signatures are an important part of the validation needed in container supply chains.

Integrating Signatures in the Registry

The first big change that we want to make is because at present not every registry supports Notary. This means that if you use a mixture of registries, some may support signatures while others do. In addition, you cannot move signatures between registries. Both of these are related to the design of Notary as in effect a registry sidecar. While Notary shares the same authentication as a registry, it is built as a separate service, with its own database and API.

Back when Notary was designed this did not seem so important. But now many people use, or want to use, complex registry configurations with local registries close to a production cluster, or at the cloud provider code is running on, or in an edge location which may be disconnected. The solution that we are working on is that rather than being a standalone sidecar service, signatures will be integrated into the OCI image specification and supported by all registries. The details of this are still being worked out, but this will make portability much easier, as signatures will be able to be pushed and pulled with images.

Improving Usability

The second big set of changes is around usability. The current way of signing containers and checking signatures is complex, as is the key management. One of the aims of Notary v2 is to have signatures and checking on by default where possible. There have been many issues stopping this with the current Notary, many of which are detailed in the KubeCon talk, including the large number of keys involved due to lack of hierarchy and delegation, and lack of standard interfaces for signature checking on different platforms such as Kubernetes.

If you want to learn more, there are weekly meetings on Mondays at 10 a.m. Pacific Time – see the CNCF community calendar for details. The Slack channel is #notary-v2 in the CNCF Slack. There will be two sessions at KubeCon Amsterdam, one introductory overview and state of where we are, and another deep dive working session on current issues. Hope to see you there!
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27. Januar 2020

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OpenShift 4.3: Dashboard refinements and the new Project dashboard

The Cluster Overview dashboard we introduced in Red Hat OpenShift 4.2 was a significant and well-received addition to the Web Console, and our team has greatly enjoyed seeing how OpenShift users (and even our own developers) have been using it to identify and resolve issues they otherwise may not have noticed.
We’ve made a number of changes both big and small to the dashboard based on our user research findings and the feedback we’ve collected from readers like you. This post covers some of the key improvements and introduces a new member of the dashboard family that we think developers in particular are going to love.
If you’d like to help us make these dashboards even better in the future, consider filling out our survey to provide feedback and sign up for future research opportunities.
Let’s dive in.
Visual polish

With the help of visual designers on our User Experience Design team and a closer adherence to the open source PatternFly design system, the 4.3 dashboard provides a much cleaner first impression. The new Red Hat font, adjusted spacing, fewer separators, and more clearly-defined charts make this the cleanest window into OpenShift clusters yet.
More signal, less noise

Dashboards have a tendency to become disorganized smörgåsbords of cards and information that compete for attention as they gain more functionality. When that kind of noise starts to creep in, figuring out what’s important and what actions need to be taken at a glance can become difficult.
Our team made a conscious effort in 4.3 to reduce the amount of visual noise from the previous iteration and boost the important signals that make managing and fixing clusters easier. Along with a variety of smaller iconography and behavioral tweaks, we were able to combine three cards into one without losing any functionality and integrate links to other areas of the Console (like alert details pages) when they become contextually relevant.
These changes make the dashboard a more effective launching point than ever, requiring less guesswork and fewer clicks to find and fix issues.
Card-by-card refinements
There are a ton of little details I could dig into, but for the sake of your eyes and my fingers I’ll cover the highlights and let the rest be nice little surprises. If you prefer to spoil nice little surprises, take a peek at our detailed design documentation in the OpenShift Design GitHub repository.

The Details card now includes the cluster’s API address, a link to the OpenShift Cluster Manager, the current upgrade channel, and a handy link to the cluster’s settings page. You’ll also see a version upgrade notice here when one is available.
Resources in the Inventory card can now be clicked to view the full list page of each type, and the card now includes the cluster’s Storage Classes as well.

The Status card regains the same subsystem statuses that were available in the Cluster Status page of 4.0, with the response rates of each control plane component included in a popover. The alerts that appear in this card also now include links to view additional information about each one.

When the Red Hat Quay operator is installed an additional Quay Image Security status appears that flags any container vulnerabilities that are found, with links to the Quay console for additional information. Learn more about the Console’s Quay integration in this post.

The revised Activity card condenses all events into denser, easily-scannable rows and highlights certain long-running operations (like cluster updates) in a new Ongoing section so they can’t easily be missed.

Finally, the Utilization card now incorporates the best pieces of 4.2’s Capacity and Top Consumers cards to show the current resource usage and remaining capacity in one place. Clicking any measurement reveals the top consumers of each resource by either project, node, or pod, and the card’s charts can be adjusted to show the last 1, 6, or 24 hours of resource consumption.
The new Project Dashboard

Forgive me for saving the biggest news for last, but the new Project dashboard (which is also available in the Developer perspective, of course) provides the same familiar dashboard experience but scoped to project-level resources and metrics.
The Inventory card includes the quantity and statuses of deployments, pods, PVCs, services, routes, config maps, and secrets, and the Utilization card includes the network utilization and historical pod count of the current project. Any resource quotas applied to the project are also included, and an additional Launcher card with relevant external links can be added via the new ConsoleLink CRD.
What’s next
New features, refinements, and surprises, of course!
Check out the OpenShift Console and OpenShift Design GitHub repositories if you’d like a sneak peek, but until then, we would really love to hear your ideas and feedback! Please fill out our brief survey to get in touch, or sign up to participate in future OpenShift research opportunities.
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