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I've been following the GitHub Projects beta for a while now, and have been fortunate to be accepted as an early adopter. I'm a big fan of the direction, and the flexibility. One of the limitations I've noticed is that there's currently no built-in way to automatically add an issue to a project board. It's on the backlog, but not yet available. Fortunately, GitHub Actions has us sorted. I'll walk you through a sample I put together to do exactly that.

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Your monthly digest of everything happening across Azure, GitHub, and Azure DevOps — so you don't have to keep up with it all yourself! In this January 2022 roundup, Chris returns to the channel after a break with an honest discussion about mental health and burnout, recaps Cloud With Chris highlights from 2021, and covers a packed set of updates: AKS improvements (containerd GA, FIPS node pools, Kubernetes version aliasing), Static Web Apps Enterprise Grade Edge GA, Azure Cognitive Search semantic updates, Azure Monitor 1-minute frequency log alerts, GitHub Advanced Security, GitHub Projects, Dependabot, and much more. Plus an outlook for what's changing on the channel in 2022.

In this post, we're going to explore the Open Source project known as Dapr (The Distributed Application Runtime). This post is primarily aimed at those who already have an understanding of Containers, Kubernetes and Microservices. However, if you're not familiar with these topics - I'll do my best to set the right context and background without making the blog too lengthy!

I love learning. Especially when it's about brand new things that I wasn't aware of! For this post, I need to give a big shout out to my friend and colleague Sam Rowe for the tip. It wasn't a product/service that I was aware of, but felt like something that could be useful for me on Cloud With Chris. In this post, I'll dig into what it is and how it may be able to help you.

It's hard to believe that 2021 is done, and we're now in 2022. In one sense, it feels like a 'blink and you miss it' year. In another way, it feels as though it's been one of the longest years to have passed us by. It's fair to say that 2021 has had its challenges, not least in the backdrop of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. You may have caught my recent blog post on my mental health challenges. Practicing mindfulness and gratitude are excellent approaches for me to keep my overall mental health in balance. So, this post is just as much for me as anyone else. I want to highlight the achievements from the last year or so. I won't be setting any resolutions for 2021, but want to build upon what I've learned in 2021.

You will have noticed that there haven't been any updates on Cloud With Chris for some time. I've also been quiet on social media. For any of my colleagues, you may have seen that I've had time away from work by my out of office messages. In this blog post, I want to open up about my recent challenges and have an honest discussion. Whether you've experienced mental health challenges before, are currently going through tough times, or haven't experienced any and don't quite understand - I hope that me sharing this helps. We're going to be talking about mental health.

Did you know that Static Sites can help you build performant sites that easily scale globally? Better yet, they can be incredibly cost-effective!

In this session, Chris provides a series of updates focused around Azure, DevOps, GitHub and Cloud With Chris.

A little while ago, I wrote a blog post on Using the GitHub self-hosted runner and Azure Virtual Machines to login with a System Assigned Managed Identity, which seems to get a good amount of views week on week. Reflecting on some questions that have popped up this week (and regularly received over my time in the DevOps space), I thought that it makes sense to write a post on how to use Azure DevOps self-hosted agents to deploy to private resources. So, that's what we'll be covering in this post!