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The Weeks Top Links

Here are some of the most notable links from the week:

• Azure Pipeline: Publish Unit Test and Code Coverage Results with .NET 7 Solution using VSTest, Cobertura, and Coverlet via Chris Pietschmann
• Top 5 Cloud Architecture Design Patterns to use in Microsoft Azure via Chris Pietschmann
• Terraform State Management Explained via Chris Pietschmann
• Terraform Best Practices for Writing Clean, Readable, and Maintainable Code via Chris Pietschmann
• Deploy Azure IoT Hub using Terraform DevOps Infrastructure Automation via Chris Pietschmann
• OpenAI Releases ChatGPT 4 via Paul Thurrott

Blog Articles

Here’s a collection of some of the most note worthy blog articles posted over the past week:

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

• Microsoft to showcase purpose-built AI infrastructure at NVIDIA GTC via Locky Ainley
• Azure previews powerful and scalable virtual machine series to accelerate generative AI via Matt Vegas
• 5 Best Practices to Control Terraform Destroy and Prevent Accidental Infrastructure Deletion via Rhegisan Jebas
• Deploy Azure IoT Hub using Terraform DevOps Infrastructure Automation via Chris Pietschmann
• 4 best-practices to keep your Windows Server estate secure and optimized via Patrick Widjaja
• Monitor Azure Virtual Network Manager changes with event logging via Andrea Michael
• Terraform vs. Terragrunt: Choosing the Right Tool for Infrastructure as Code via Ravi Tiwari
• Create a standard load balancer in Azure with Terraform via Kristi Ndoni

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

• Unleashing the Full Potential of Azure App Service Plan with Terraform Configuration — Boost Your… via Rollend Xavier
• Moving Azure Web Apps between App Service Plans via Gregor Suttie
• Change the replication type of an Azure storage account via danielstechblog

Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)

• Using Azure Logic apps as business rules for Azure Digital Twins via Sander van de Velde | Microsoft MVP | IoT Solution Architect | Speaker | Maker
• Using Logic Apps to interact with ChatGPT via Sandro Pereira
• Azure Function with Spring Cloud Function via Jay Lee

DevOps / SRE

• Terraform : Azure Private Endpoint & DNS Zones via Rollend Xavier
• How to create Azure Kubernetes Service Cluster with Terraform via Uğur Akgül
• Unleashing the Full Potential of Azure App Service Plan with Terraform Configuration — Boost Your… via Rollend Xavier
• Terraform CI/CD Pipelines with Gitlab via Ankush
• Azure Databricks Unity Catalog — Part 3: Automate Unity Catalog set up using Terraform via hwangdb
• How to fix the GitHub pipeline issues when credentials are expired? via Chief Contributor
• How to write your own Custom Terraform Provider? via Corentin Le Devedec
• Using Azure Logic apps as business rules for Azure Digital Twins via Sander van de Velde | Microsoft MVP | IoT Solution Architect | Speaker | Maker
• Building a Two-Tier Terraform Module in AWS. via Adam Leonard
• GitHub to implement 2FA requirement to all contributing developers starting March 13 via Sharron Bennet
• Terraform ECS Fargate Example via Erik A. Ekberg
• 5 Best Practices to Control Terraform Destroy and Prevent Accidental Infrastructure Deletion via Rhegisan Jebas
• Why Is Python so Popular? GitHub Knows What’s up via Jessica Wachtel
• Deploy Azure IoT Hub using Terraform DevOps Infrastructure Automation via Chris Pietschmann
• Dynamic provider credentials now generally available for Terraform Cloud via Mitchell Ross
• A reason to stop using the Terraform null_resource via Thiago Alves
• Terraform 1.4 improves the CLI experience for Terraform Cloud via Dan Barr
• Terraform: Using Local Modules to Create a Two-Tier Architecture via Dahmear Johnson
• Terraform vs. Terragrunt: Choosing the Right Tool for Infrastructure as Code via Ravi Tiwari
• How to build, test and deploy your application using Azure and GitHub via Liam Hampton
• Safely access Azure Kubernetes Service in GitHub Action with AAD Federated Identity via Jay Lee
• Creating an Azure DevOps CI/CD Pipeline for your Kubernetes Microservice Application via Niranjan Shankar
• Creating Reusable Terraform Modules for Azure and Best Practices via ECD3
• Azure Data Factory build and deploy with new CI/CD flow using GitHub Actions via Jared Zagelbaum
• Create a standard load balancer in Azure with Terraform via Kristi Ndoni
• Terraform State Management Explained via Chris Pietschmann
• Terraform Best Practices for Writing Clean, Readable, and Maintainable Code via Chris Pietschmann
• Integrate Azure Load Testing into Azure DevOps via April Edwards

Data

• Announcing Microsoft Azure Data Manager for Agriculture: Accelerating innovation across the agriculture value chain via Kees Hertogh
• Azure Databricks Unity Catalog — Part 3: Automate Unity Catalog set up using Terraform via hwangdb
• The do’s and don’ts of Azure Immutable Storage via Rick Vanover
• Teradata Tape Migration to Azure via Namrata01
• Azure Data Factory build and deploy with new CI/CD flow using GitHub Actions via Jared Zagelbaum

Internet of Things (IoT)

• Deploy Azure IoT Hub using Terraform DevOps Infrastructure Automation via Chris Pietschmann

Machine Learning (ML) / Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• OpenAI Releases ChatGPT 4 via Paul Thurrott
• Microsoft to showcase purpose-built AI infrastructure at NVIDIA GTC via Locky Ainley
• OpenAI announces GPT-4 — the next generation of its AI language model via James Vincent
• The Bing AI bot has been secretly running GPT-4 via Jay Peters
• Azure previews powerful and scalable virtual machine series to accelerate generative AI via Matt Vegas
• Deploy Azure Open AI using Bicep Language via Dave R – Microsoft Azure MVP☁️
• ChatGPT is now available in Azure OpenAI Service via Eric Boyd
• Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service Gets New ChatGPT Integration in Preview via Rabia Noureen
• ChatGPT is now available in Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI service via Tom Warren
• Responsible AI: Debugging AI for errors, fairness and explainability via Ruth Yakubu
• Announcing a renaissance in computer vision AI with Microsoft’s Florence foundation model via Xuedong Huang
• Exploring open-source capabilities in Azure AI via Takuto Higuchi

Development

• Azure Pipeline: Publish Unit Test and Code Coverage Results with .NET 7 Solution using VSTest, Cobertura, and Coverlet via Chris Pietschmann
• Uploading Large Blobs in Parallel with the Azure SDK via Mark Heath
• GitHub to implement 2FA requirement to all contributing developers starting March 13 via Sharron Bennet
• Why Is Python so Popular? GitHub Knows What’s up via Jessica Wachtel

Containers (Docker, Kubernetes, Service Fabric, etc)

• How to create Azure Kubernetes Service Cluster with Terraform via Uğur Akgül
• Kubernetes in Azure: Part 3 —Managing Custom Deployments on AKS with Azure Container Registry… via Bogdan Veliscu
• Safely access Azure Kubernetes Service in GitHub Action with AAD Federated Identity via Jay Lee
• Creating an Azure DevOps CI/CD Pipeline for your Kubernetes Microservice Application via Niranjan Shankar

Security, Identity, and Privacy

• Safely access Azure Kubernetes Service in GitHub Action with AAD Federated Identity via Jay Lee

Learning / Training / Certification

• Terraform ECS Fargate Example via Erik A. Ekberg

Other

• Zero to Hero: Secure IaC with Bicep via Chief Contributor
• Microsoft spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a ChatGPT supercomputer via Emma Roth
• Discover the latest innovations at Azure Open Source Day 2023 via David Dennis
• 202: The Bing is dead! Long live the Bing via Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Peter Roosakos
• Armchair Architects: Architectural Erosion and Technical Debt via brauerblogs
• Migrate your Runbooks in Azure Automation to Managed Identities via Brad Wyatt
• Getting Started with Azure Hybrid AZ800: Top 10 Study Items via Cristal Kawula
• Top 5 Cloud Architecture Design Patterns to use in Microsoft Azure via Chris Pietschmann
• Custom ChatGPT with Azure OpenAI via Valentina Alto
• Discover the latest innovations at Azure Open Source Day 2023 via David Dennis
• Get integrated Microsoft Purview Information Protection in Adobe Acrobat—now available via Christine Barrett

Videos

Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:

• Display IoT Data in a Power Apps using Azure Functions and Custom Connectors via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
• Build a 3D Printed Clippy Powered by ChatGPT from OpenAI, Azure Cognitive Services via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube

Podcast

To complete the collection of different mediums to allow you to consume your Azure news / info in any way you want, here’s a list of the podcasts released this week:

• Grant Fritchey: SQL Server Performance Tuning – Episode 236 via Azure DevOps Podcast
• Episode 324 – Have your cake and it eat too with VMSS Flex via Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
• Episode 72: What’s top of mind for the hosts and career advice! via The Azure Security Podcast
• 176 – Let’s talk about Azure Virtual Desktop via Ctrl+Alt+Azure
• Clean Architecture in 2023 with Steven Smith via .NET Rocks!

Azure Service Updates

Here are the latest service updates from Microsoft over the last week:

• Public preview: Azure Cognitive Service for Vision Powers State-of-the-Art Computer Vision Development
• Public preview: Illumio for Azure Firewall
• Public Preview: Azure Chaos Studio now available in
• General availability: Ephemeral OS disks supports encryption at host using customer managed keys
• Public preview: Accelerated Connections for Network Virtual Appliances now in Azure Marketplace
• Private Preview: Azure Backup enables vaulted backups for Azure Files for comprehensive data protection.
• GA: Spot Priority Mix
• General availability: Yocto Kirkstone recipes for IoT Edge 1.4 LTS
• Public Preview: Azure Backup enables vaulted backups for Azure Blob for comprehensive data protection.
• Generally available: Azure Ultra Disk Storage in the China North 3 Azure region
• Public Preview: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus now supports querying PromQL
• Public Preview: Collect Syslog from AKS nodes using Azure Monitor – Container Insights

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