V014 - Tech Roundup #14 Azure, DevOps & GitHub Blogs, Azure Updates & New CloudWithChris content
In this Easter Sunday livestream, Chris rounds up a bumper week of tech news. Azure highlights include Microsoft being named a Forrester Wave leader in Function-as-a-Service platforms — validating the Azure Functions investment — a Cost Management recap for March, and enterprise-scale landing zone guidance from Sarah Lean. A rapid-fire Azure update pass-through covers the new AKS run command feature (enabling ad-hoc commands through the Azure API plane on private clusters while respecting RBAC), AKS node image auto-upgrade, Open Service Mesh add-on for AKS, GA of Kubernetes 1.20 in AKS, and Azure Static Web Apps deployment without a DevOps pipeline.
On Azure DevOps, Delivery Plans 2.0 nears GA with card styling and dependency line support for cross-team portfolio visibility. Community stories spotlight Terraform with Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions, and GitHub Actions-powered data pipelines with Azure Data Factory and Databricks. GitHub highlights cover the GitHub Advanced Security security overview beta and GA of secret scanning for private repositories, GitHub Desktop cherry-pick support, and GitHub Mobile working-hours notification controls.
Cloud with Chris content this week includes a beginner-friendly Git 101 Cloud Drop (covering clone, pull, push, and init), a combined blog reference post, a community blogging panel with Sarah Lean, Shannon Quinn, Jamie McGuire, and John Lennon, and the latest Architecting for the Cloud, One Pattern at a Time episode on the External Configuration and Claim Check patterns with Peter Piper. Chris also previews the upcoming Northern Azure User Group talk alongside Scott Hanselman and the Cloud Gaming Notes episode on inventory and economy.
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