V013 - Weekly Technology Vlog #13 (Lots of Azure, DevOps & GitHub) Blogs, Quick-fire Azure Updates
Weekly Vlog #13 covers an action-packed Azure week, with standout blog posts including Mark Russinovich’s Ignite session on Azure innovation, enterprise landing zones with modular designs, zonal disaster recovery enhancements via Azure Site Recovery, Security Center compliance updates, and Azure Databricks on Azure. On the Azure DevOps side, Chris highlights “DevOps-ing everything as code” and community stories touching on Terraform, Bicep, and policy-gated release pipelines.
The GitHub roundup digs into the GitHub Actions capture-the-flag writeup — revealing how an overly permissive workflow can expose repository secrets — and a fascinating multi-stage exploit chain from the GitHub Security Lab, both underscoring the growing importance of DevSecOps practices with GitHub Advanced Security.
Cloud with Chris had a standout week: a deep-dive video on Git internals (commits, trees, and blobs behind the scenes) became the channel’s most-viewed video at over 300 views, and a Cloud Drop on Git LFS demonstrated how to version large files and automate releases via GitHub Actions. The site also received two new features — a Fuse.js-powered search bar and a series navigation dropdown — improving content discoverability. Chris previews an action-packed April talk schedule including the Northern Azure User Group alongside Scott Hanselman and two sessions at Global Azure Bootcamp.
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Three months and 350+ subscribers in, with content shipping every day of the past week: a GitHub Codespaces Cloud Drop, the final GPG commit-signing instalment covering YubiKey hardware key storage, a Welsh Azure User Group lightning talk on GitHub Actions, and a Terraform Cloud deep-dive on Azure state management. Azure news centres on Microsoft's commitment to bring Availability Zones to every region by end of 2021, new forecasted cost alerts for Azure Budgets, and the Start Small & Expand landing zone guidance from Sarah Lean and Thomas Maurer. GitHub updates include Dependabot gaining private registry support, CodeQL scanning for Solarigate traces, and a detailed post-mortem on the recent GitHub.com security incident.
V011 - Weekly Technology Vlog #11
Vlog #11 debuts a refreshed brand and on-screen layout, then covers a busy week: the third instalment of Chris's GPG commit-signing series (linking keys to Git and GitHub), the Cache Aside cloud design pattern episode, and a preview of the upcoming YubiKey-focused Part 4. Azure news centres on the preview of Trusted Launch VMs (defending against bootkits and rootkits), Azure Defender for Storage's new malware-upload detection, and Naraya — the ML system Microsoft uses to predict and proactively mitigate infrastructure failures at scale. On the security operations side, GitHub and Azure DevOps announce automated token revocation for leaked PATs found on public GitHub repositories.
31 - Deploying to Azure through Terraform Cloud
You may have heard of Terraform, but are you aware of Terraform Cloud or Terraform Enterprise? In this session, Chris walks through how he uses Terraform Cloud to deploy infrastructure onto Azure — covering HCL, the Azure RM provider, remote state management, Terraform modules, and a VCS-driven CI/CD pipeline via GitHub integration. Learn how Terraform Cloud's managed state compares to a self-hosted Azure Storage Account backend, and how terraform plan and terraform apply fit into an automated deployment workflow.