Tech Roundup - January 2022
Your monthly digest covering Azure, GitHub, and Azure DevOps updates — so you don’t have to keep up with it all yourself!
In this January 2022 edition, Chris returns to Cloud With Chris after a break and opens with an honest account of his mental health journey — including depression, anxiety, and the importance of asking for support. He then covers:
Cloud With Chris Updates A retrospective on 2021 content performance, the shift from weekly to monthly roundups, and upcoming changes to the channel format and content cadence.
Azure Updates
- Static Web Apps Enterprise Grade Edge — now generally available
- AKS: containerd GA for Windows containers, FIPS-enabled node pools GA, Kubernetes version aliases, ultra disk support GA
- Azure Cognitive Search: semantic search updates
- Azure Monitor: 1-minute frequency log alerts GA and a new alert rule creation experience GA
- Azure Site Recovery: Azure Policy support GA
- Azure Key Vault: increased service limits
- Azure Cache for Redis: managed identity support
- Azure Arc: landing zone accelerator for Arc-enabled servers
- Azure Machine Learning: multiple private endpoints for workspaces GA
GitHub Updates GitHub Projects, GitHub Codespaces, GitHub Advanced Security, and Dependabot updates — including insight into how GitHub uses Dependabot internally to manage dependencies at scale.
Azure DevOps Updates New Azure Pipelines runtime variable settings, Azure Artifacts upstream universal packages across organisations, and Java-to-Azure deployment guides.
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