Episode 117: myNewsWrap – SAP and Microsoft

Welcome to this week's edition of myNewsWrap, news from the world of SAP, Microsoft and the world in between.

SAP Universe - from the community

Let's us start with the SAP side of the house i. e. news around the Business Technology Platform and news from the broader SAP ecosystem:

• SAP BTP ABAP Environment – Pre-Upgrade Option for Release 2302

and some Kyma updates:

• Deprecation of the Istio sidecar injection annotation
• Support for XFF with Istio
• Issuing JWT security best practices

Microsoft Universe

Now let's look at the Microsoft universe.

Azure Functions/Serverless

Here is what happened this week in the serverless space like Azure Functions and Static Web Apps:

• Azure Functions 2022 recap and 2023 sneak peek
• Migrating to Isolated Durable Functions

And some must watch videos from AWS re:Invent around serverless:

• AWS re:Invent 2022 - Best practices for advanced serverless developers (SVS401)
• AWS re:Invent 2022 - Building next-gen applications with event-driven architectures (API311-R)

Containers, Azure Container Apps and Kubernetes

From Serverless to Containers, Azure Container Apps and Kubernetes - what did this week provide us with?

• The Azure Kubernetes Service Checklist
• Dapr Community Call 75
• Managed Dapr with Azure Container Apps
• That looks very promising: Dapr and workflow

GitHub & DevOps

What happened in the area of DevOps and esp. GitHub - let's see:

• How the Xbox Customer Experiences Team uses DevOps - not brand new, but interesting
• Convert Pipelines to Actions

2023 and GitHub is full steam ahead:

• GitHub Issues – January 12th update - Hope the forms also will land at PR templates soon.
• GitHub Actions – Support for organization-wide required workflows public beta
• Introducing required workflows and configuration variables to GitHub Actions
• GitHub Actions – Support for configuration variables in workflows
• A smarter, quieter Dependabot
• Passwordless deployments to the cloud
• Code scanning can be set up more easily without committing a workflow file to the repository and Default setup: A new way to enable GitHub code scanning
• GitHub Actions: OpenID Connect token now supports more claims for configuring granular cloud access
• GitHub Discussions just got better with Category Forms!
• New GitHub CLI extension tools

Misc

Interested in some new from the broader Microsoft ecosystem? Then here are some links for you:

• How to: Send images from Azure Logic Apps to a Custom API – as Multipart From-Data

The Azure Developer CLI Corner:

• Azure Developer CLI (azd) – January 2023 Release

Attention: The new version 0.5.0-beta.1 had a glitch concerning log on via azd logon to private Azure subscriptions. This is fixed with version 0.5.0-beta.2.

🐱‍👤 SAP and Microsoft - Combining both worlds

Now let's enter the twilight zone (no worries the ninja cat is with us) between SAP and Microsoft and see the magic happening when we combine both worlds:

• SAP on Azure Video Podcast #126 - The one with Disaster Recovery Guidelines for SAP Workload (Dennis Padia)

Learning and Events

We always want to learn, so here are some links to some interesting learning resources and upcoming events:

• A few thoughts and information about the possibility of renewing Microsoft certifications!
• Actions speak louder than words: Building better communities
• Some Learning around OAuth:
  • Getting started with OAuth 2.0
  • More OAuth 2.0

And heads up for upcoming events:

• Welsh Azure User Group - Call for Speakers
• It's Low Code February!

Golo's Corner

No news from Golo this week ... hopefully everything is fine.

And with this enjoy your weekend and have a successful next week!