Azure Weekly

Issue #397 - 27th November 2022

A relatively quiet week, which is no surprise given that it's holiday season in the US., but there are still a number of great articles this week. Firstly there's a very useful new set of features in Public Preview: Cross Subscription Restore for Azure Virtual Machines. There are three interesting articles about improving your PaaS security posture, and identity improvements: Securing PaaS services with virtual networks and restricting public access, and AKS Workload Identity Revisited, and Introducing a better way to integrate Azure AD with API Management.

On the developer tools front, there's a great post talking about the new Dev Tunnels feature (if you've ever had to use ngrok): Use dev tunnels in Visual Studio to debug your web APIs, a nice guide to publishing docker images to GitHub Container Registry ghcr, and a treatise from Ian Griffith: In Defence of Squash Commits.

Finally, we've published Accessible Data Storytelling: World Bank Heath and Wealth Report to the Power BI Data Storytelling Gallery, which has been an internal project to highlight how to create compelling data stories with an accessible colour palette to assist users Colour Vision Deficiency. If you're creating a Power BI report that has an audience larger than 12 people, statistically you need to take into account Colour Vision Deficiency. We've also produced two videos which provide A walkthrough of the World Health and Wealth Data Story and Custom Report Design: An Array of Design Concepts and Accessible Colours for Power BI.