Tech Roundup - February 2022
Stay up to date with everything that happened across Azure, GitHub, and Azure DevOps in February 2022. Chris walks through the month’s most important announcements and shares what he’s been building at Cloud With Chris.
GitHub highlights include GitHub Actions now supporting OpenID Connect (OIDC) for deploying Azure Static Web Apps without long-lived secrets, GitHub Projects beta updates (flexible iterations and insights filtering), Codespaces and CLI improvements, and the GitHub App for Microsoft Teams and Slack for faster PR reviews.
Azure highlights cover Azure Monitor’s expanding OpenTelemetry support, Azure Arc observability from cloud to edge, Azure Payments HSM entering public preview (targeting PCI payment processing scenarios), Azure Cost Management January roundup, and Azure Storage diagnostics reaching GA.
Cloud With Chris updates include a new Hugo-based presentations site hosted on Azure Static Web Apps (using reveal.js via the hugo-reveal theme), a feature flags episode, coverage of the UK Azure Community Day, and the debut of the Lunch Bites series.
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