V017 - Weekly Technology Vlog #17
Weekly Vlog #17 opens with Azure’s UK Met Office supercomputer partnership announcement and a brisk pass through this week’s Azure updates: new M-series memory-optimised VMs, Application Gateway URL rewrite now GA (finally allowing base URL rewriting), Azure Data Factory data flow GA in two new US government regions, Azure Purview availability in UK South and Australia East, and a heads-up to upgrade AML clusters from Ubuntu 16.04 before end-of-April community support expiry.
The Azure DevOps highlight is a chaos engineering episode in the Azure Fun Bytes series — bringing together DevOps automation and architectural resilience thinking, encouraging teams to proactively test failure modes (pod failures, recycled function instances, VM removals) as part of their release pipeline. Community posts cover Bicep deployments with Azure DevOps Pipelines and YAML pipeline tips. On GitHub, the Mars 2020 Ingenuity helicopter’s first powered flight on another planet is celebrated as a landmark open source moment, with GitHub recognising the many public repositories that contributed to the mission. GitHub also announces new protections against crypto-mining abuse in Actions, adding reputation-based blocking and requiring maintainer approval for first-time contributors on fork-triggered workflows.
Cloud with Chris content this week includes a blog on Azure RBAC at the data plane (Key Vault, Cosmos DB, Storage, and AKS), a Leeds Azure User Group talk on GitHub Actions and Hugo, and a live stream with Carl Cook on the Cloud with Chris architecture and GitHub setup. Chris also unveils the Hugo CrossPoster — a .NET console application that reads a Hugo content folder and cross-posts articles to Medium and Dev.to, handling canonical URLs to protect SEO, detecting YouTube embeds in front matter, and adapting to each platform’s markdown rendering differences. Upcoming content includes a Logic Apps v2 blog, an Azure governance session, and a Glasgow Azure User Group lightning talk on Hugo with Azure Storage and CDN.
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