Azure Weekly

Issue #430 - 6th August 2023

First off, around DevOps, highlighting the Bicep VS Code extension: Bicep Deployment Pane: Validate, What-If and Deploy at your fingertips, and a useful guide if you're trying to generate documentation from your wiki: How to publish a multi-page Azure DevOps Wiki to PDF and pipeline it.

There's an interesting post about looking at phishing threats: AiTM (Adversary-in-The-Middle) & BEC (Business Email Compromised) threat hunting with KQL, looking at Logic App Consumption: Send Query Reports from Log Analytics Workspace, and Empowering Disaster Recovery for Azure VMs with Azure Site Recovery and Terraform.

A major version upgrade in Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server has reached General Availability, and there's an interesting article From Prompts to Embeddings and Vector Stores - How to use OpenAI in real-life scenarios. Worth a read. Finally Barry Smart kicks off a new series of posts exploring Microsoft Fabric for Technology Leaders, in Microsoft Fabric Is A Socio-Technical Endeavour.