👋 Welcome Back!
We’re thrilled to bring you the latest updates from the Arc Jumpstart team in this month’s newsletter. Whether you are new to the community or a regular Jumpstart contributor, this newsletter will keep you informed about new releases, key events, and opportunities to get involved in within the Azure Adaptive Cloud ecosystem. Check back each month for new ways to connect, share your experiences, and learn from others in the Adaptive Cloud community.
🤩 Jumpstart Agora - Contoso Motors v2 Release
In case you missed our announcement, we launched version 2 of the Contoso Motors scenario, part of Jumpstart Agora! This update brings key updates that streamline deployment, improve maintainability, and reduce operational costs. These enhancements reflect our ongoing commitment to leveraging the latest Azure capabilities while optimizing the architecture for efficiency.
To learn more about the details of this release, check out our blog post announcement here: Jumpstart Agora – Contoso Motors v2.
💧 Jumpstart Drops
We’re excited to celebrate the latest three Jumpstart Drops contributed in March! A huge thank you to our contributors for sharing their expertise with the community!
Here’s what’s new:
For those unfamiliar, Jumpstart Drops is a community-driven framework offering a curated collection of scripts, tools, and resources designed to streamline workflows. These self-contained code snippets and assets help automate tasks, provide sample applications, and demonstrate product capabilities - all while fostering collaboration and feedback within the Arc Jumpstart community.
Interested in creating your own Jumpstart Drop? We’d love to see what you build! Get started by reviewing our contribution guidelines.
Visit Jumpstart Drops today!
⚡ Jumpstart Lightning
March was an exciting month for Jumpstart Lightning, with six new videos released on the Jumpstart YouTube channel! These bite-sized episodes feature insightful discussions, demos, and updates from community members, covering topics across the Adaptive Cloud space - including Azure Arc, Kubernetes, edge computing, hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, and more. A huge thank you to our guests for sharing their expertise and stories with the community!
For those new to Jumpstart Lightning, it’s a YouTube show produced by the Jumpstart team, designed to bring the community together through 15-30 minute recorded episodes. Whether you're showcasing a new project, sharing best practices, or discussing industry trends, Jumpstart Lightning provides an engaging platform to highlight what’s happening in the Adaptive Cloud space.
Check out the latest episodes and get involved by visiting Jumpstart Lightning!
Bonus Video: Windows Server App Control with Azure Arc
Join Thomas Maurer as he sits down with Carlos Mayol Berral, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft for Azure Edge Security, to explore the powerful new capabilities of Windows Server 2025 Security Baseline and App Control. In this in-depth conversation, Carlos shares insights into these essential security features and walks through impressive demos showcasing how to implement them seamlessly. Watch it here.
🚀 Jumpstart Gems Diagrams Release
The ACX Evaluation & Community and the Arc Jumpstart team are happy to share the new Jumpstart Gems diagrams for March 2025.
In this yet another jammed packed release, we are introducing 8 new and 18 updated diagrams across the entire adaptive cloud product portfolio, focuses on several product updates:
- Azure Migrate for Azure Local
- Arc resource bridge (ARB)
- Azure Container Storage enabled by Azure Arc (ACSA)
- Azure Container Apps on Azure Arc
- Azure Arc gateway
- Jumpstart HCIBox
- Jumpstart Agora – Contoso Motors scenario
Release Notes
Note: Changelog file can be found in the bundle. Posters are provided in both PPTX and PDF file formats. All posters are designed to be printed on a large kanban and can be used as a great swag giveaway at various events.
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Getting Started
Jumpstart Gems is published under the Arc Jumpstart website assets page.
🤝 Stay Connected - Join the May Adaptive Cloud Community Call
Please join us on, Wednesday, May 7th, at 8-9am PST (11-12pm EST) for our May Adaptive Cloud Community Call (join our Teams Channel and download the recurring .ICS invite here).
The turnout continues to remain strong from FTEs from the Adaptive Cloud space ranging from CTOs, CEOs, and lead engineers, to the various IoT Connected Community members, and Microsoft MVPs. Our last call peaked at around 70 live attendees and featured topics on Microsoft GitOps, Azure Arc Jumpstart Updates, and AKS EE 2502 Release/KMS Plugin.
Our community calls are open to everyone, including external customers, Microsoft MVPs, and internal employees. If you're new to this initiative, the Azure Adaptive Cloud Community is a public, non-NDA space where valuable information is shared freely. We hold a monthly community call every first Wednesday and maintain a Teams Channel for continuous information exchange.
These calls highlight updates from our Adaptive Cloud product groups, including Azure Arc, Azure Local, Azure IoT, and AKS, among others. We also host short talks or demos on Azure Adaptive Cloud technologies and gather feedback from the community on issues, blockers, and use cases.
Don't miss the chance to engage with us, and be sure to check out previous recordings on our YouTube channel.
💫 Hungry for More?
Check out our Jumpstart Release Notes for more information on bug fixes and enhancements.
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