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We often hear about Kubernetes, App Services, Virtual Machines and more. But did you ever think about using Azure Storage to host your sites? The Static Content Hosting pattern is a cost-effective way to host your sites, combined with a CDN can be incredibly performant! Chris will show how he uses these patterns, along with GitHub Actions to deploy and maintain his CloudWithChris.com podcast.

Weekly Vlog #15 covers a lighter-than-usual Azure week, spotlighting Azure Cloud Services extended support GA with a migration tool preview, Azure Orbital's ground station-as-a-service partnership updates, and a great Azure DevOps blog post on building and publishing your first GitHub Action. Cloud with Chris highlights include a Windows Terminal productivity Cloud Drop, the Bulkhead resilience pattern episode, a Microsoft Learn introductory video, and a recap of the Northern Azure User Group talk alongside Scott Hanselman — with two Global Azure sessions on Hugo static sites and GitHub Actions just around the corner.

Chris is a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft. He'll explore how GitHub Actions can be used to deploy your own static sites (or other apps!) to Azure.

Microsoft Learn is a gamified education hub on docs.microsoft.com covering Azure, GitHub, Microsoft 365, and more through modules, learning paths, and the LearnTV video platform. Browse the catalogue by role, level, or product, earn XP to level up, and use renewal assessments to recertify without retaking full exams.

In this Easter Sunday livestream, Chris covers Microsoft's Forrester Wave leader recognition for Azure Functions (FaaS), a wave of AKS updates including the new run command feature and Open Service Mesh add-on, and the GitHub Advanced Security security overview beta plus GA of secret scanning for private repositories. Delivery Plans 2.0 in Azure DevOps approaches GA with card styling and dependency visualisation, while GitHub Desktop gains cherry-pick support and GitHub Mobile adds working-hours notification controls. Cloud with Chris highlights include a beginner Git 101 Cloud Drop, a community blogging panel, the External Configuration and Claim Check architecture pattern episode with Peter Piper, and a preview of the upcoming Northern Azure User Group talk alongside Scott Hanselman.

Git is a distributed version control system where every developer holds a complete copy of the repository and its history locally, enabling offline work and fast branching. This Cloud Drop covers git init, git add, git commit, git status, git log, git push, git pull, and git clone, plus VS Code's built-in Git integration and the Git Credential Manager for authenticating against GitHub and other remote hosts.

Weekly Vlog #13 covers an action-packed Azure week: enterprise landing zones with modular designs, zonal disaster recovery via Azure Site Recovery, Security Center compliance enhancements, and Mark Russinovich's standout Ignite session on Azure innovation. The GitHub roundup highlights the GitHub Actions capture-the-flag security writeup and a multi-stage exploit chain from the GitHub Security Lab — essential reading for any DevSecOps practitioner. Cloud with Chris updates include the channel's most-viewed video to date on Git internals, a Fuse.js-powered site search, series navigation, and a packed April talk schedule featuring the Northern Azure User Group (alongside Scott Hanselman) and Global Azure Bootcamp.

GitHub Actions makes it easy to automate your entire .NET software delivery pipeline — from build and test through to deployment on Azure. In this episode, Chris Reddington is joined by Isaac Levin, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft and a lifelong .NET developer, to walk through how GitHub Actions YAML workflows streamline deploying .NET and ASP.NET Core applications to Azure App Service, Azure Functions, and Azure Static Web Apps (including Blazor WebAssembly). Isaac traces the evolution of CI/CD tooling from FTP and CruiseControl.NET through to modern GitHub Actions, demonstrates how Azure and Visual Studio integrate to auto-generate workflows, and shares practical tips for getting started quickly.

Chris joins Mert Yeter on the MSHowTo show talking all things DevOps, including CI/CD tools, Azure DevOps and GitHub, Azure Development related tooling, and the importance of monitoring as part of a DevOps approach!

For some time, I've been using GitHub actions to update the content of my site (i.e. pages, descriptions, metadata, etc.). Through Hugo, these content updates automatically update the RSS feeds. This then makes the episodes appear in podcast services such as Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify. However, throughout that time I have been manually uploading the podcast files to my storage account. It wasn't a significant overhead, but I kept thinking that there must be a better way to do this. And, there is - I've implemented it! This blog post will walk you through why I've made these changes, how I made them and what the result is.