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If you are using Azure API Management service, you may get notified or see an Azure advisor recommendation regarding – Disable trusted service connectivity in API Management. While reviewing Azure Advisor recommendations across multiple subscriptions, I noticed something interesting: only a subset of our API Management (APIM) services appeared in the advisor alerts. This prompted … Read more
Time-consuming meeting recordings and extracting key points can be a thing of the past. This Python-based solution uses Azure Open AI to automate the summarisation process for Teams meeting transcripts. The tool efficiently breaks down meetings into five key areas. These areas include Overview, Concerns, and Current Model. It also covers Questions/Thoughts to Address and … Read more
The post discusses an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) user’s experience with preview API retirements and shares a script to check current API versions in use. AKS preview APIs last about a year, and the script functionality includes querying the activity log for specific API versions. It generates a report detailing API usage, enabling proactive management to avoid deprecated versions and ensuring timely updates in Azure environments.
The try function combined with for_each in Terraform offers a great approach to handling multiple variations in data structures within Terraform. In this blog post, we will look at using both these features to develop more resilient and adaptable Terraform configurations and will also include an example of this usage Quick overview of try and … Read more
Application Gateway for Containers (AGFC) is a newer and improved version of the earlier Application Gateway Ingress Controller (AGIC), which you might be familiar with if you’ve used Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). This iteration advances Azure’s Application Load Balancing capabilities and adds a fresh offering to the Application Gateway product lineup. As I mentioned new … Read more
Using Open AI, you have probably came across prompt injections – Azure recently released a new service called AI Prompt Shields. In this blog post we will look at how you can deploy Azure AI Prompt Shield to mitigate against prompt injections – this will be deployed using Terraform with an example of mitigating. What … Read more
In this blog post, I’ll show you on how to set up a content filtering configuration in Azure OpenAI Studio and apply it to your OpenAI deployment entirely using Terraform. Since there isn’t a native Terraform resource available for content filtering configurations, I will be using azapi_resource to assist with this. The content filtering system … Read more
In this blog post – we will displaying Terraform plans directly within Azure DevOps Repository Pull Requests as a comment using Azure DevOps Pipelines. Prerequisites Please read this blog post prior, it has some prerequisites that are required before this pipeline will work successfully. Ensure you have: Azure DevOps Pipeline The Azure DevOps pipeline is … Read more
Sometimes as part of your pull request process, you may want to include outputs, checks, or other relevant information as comments after your pipeline runs on various stages and tasks. In this blog post we will look and how this can be achieved using a bash task and Azure DevOps API Prerequisites I will be … Read more