// V033 - Weekly Technology Vlog #33

Chris delivers a packed weekly update covering the Azure, DevOps and GitHub ecosystems along with Cloud with Chris community news.

Azure Blog Highlights

• Container app modernization — Azure Migrate enhancements for converting existing applications into containers, including integration with Key Vault for secrets management.
• Azure DDoS Protection trends — Analysis of attack vectors, hot spots, and threat actor patterns across H1 2021, with insights into attack duration and geographic distribution.
• Virtual network resizing (preview) — A long-awaited capability allowing resizing of peered Azure Virtual Networks, lifting a significant platform limitation.

Azure Updates

Key announcements include GitHub Codespaces reaching general availability for GitHub Teams and Enterprise Cloud, global disaster recovery via Azure Site Recovery removing region-pairing restrictions, Azure VPN Client for macOS, VM extension auto-upgrade, and Azure Machine Learning previews for cross-location compute and auto start/shutdown.

Azure DevOps Blog

• Azure Fun Bytes episode with Alex Frankel on Bicep — the new Azure infrastructure-as-code language that simplifies ARM template authoring with excellent VS Code tooling.
• DevOps Server patches for builds, email delivery and work item types.
• April Edwards on structuring repositories for Azure Static Web Apps, covering security considerations around file exposure during deployment.

GitHub Updates

• GitHub Codespaces GA — Includes a detailed engineering blog post on how GitHub’s 14-year-old Rails codebase now runs in Codespaces, reducing bootstrap times from 45 minutes to under 10 seconds.
• GitHub Campus Experts August 2021 applications open for students.
• GitHub Classroom integration with VS Code for interactive learning environments.
• July changelog covering security advisories, dependency graph, Dependabot, and Go supply chain features.

Cloud with Chris

Community gaming sessions continue with Among Us, with a Sea of Thieves session planned. Upcoming episodes cover AKS with App Gateway Ingress Controller and Kubenet, application security with Developer Steve (Snyk), the Cloud with Chris integration platform with Karl Cook, and a decentralized cell-based reference architecture for cloud-native applications with Asanka. Chris also reflects on his community-building journey and upcoming speaking engagements at the Welsh User Group on Azure Arc for application services.