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Connect to AKS Private Cluster Using Azure Bastion (Preview) - Azure Bastion

Marco Gerber | Microsoft MVP @marcogerber.ch · Aug 18

Azure Bastion integration with AKS is now in public preview. Use Azure CLI to open a tunnel to a private AKS cluster, which uses the Bastion host in the background. AKS clusters with public FQDN disabled aren't currently supported.

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Learn how to securely connect to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) private clusters using Azure Bastion's native client tunneling. Step-by-step guide with prerequisites and commands to establish secure a...

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Bicep: The content for this response was already consumed - marcogerber.ch

Marco Gerber | Microsoft MVP @marcogerber.ch · Jun 21

RIP then 🥲

Marco Gerber | Microsoft MVP @marcogerber.ch · Jun 20

I encountered a new error during Bicep deployments that worked fine until recently:

❗The content for this response was already consumed❗

Looks like it started with Azure CLI 2.73.0 - errors don’t show properly.

Read more details and solutions in my latest blog post: marcogerber.ch/the-content-...

Troubleshooting the "The content for this response was already consumed" error in Azure Bicep deployments with Azure CLI.

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Prompt injection attacks on vision language models in oncology - Nature Communications

Marco Gerber | Microsoft MVP @marcogerber.ch · May 28

Looks like there is an issue in the Azure portal where resources cannot be found. Related actions are failing as a result. I've observed this behavior across multiple tenants.

Marco Gerber | Microsoft MVP @marcogerber.ch · May 27

I've built a simple Streamlit chat app using the Azure AI Inference client for quick model testing, PoC's, and demos.

🧩 Features:
- Text & image input
- Model switcher
- System prompt presets
- Session-based chat history
- Console logging for debugging

Check it out: marcogerber.ch/streamlit-ch...

Marco Gerber | Microsoft MVP @marcogerber.ch · May 6

Very interesting article: Prompt injection attacks on vision language models in oncology

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Vision-language artificial intelligence models (VLMs) can be employed to recognize lesions in cancer images. Here, the authors show that VLMs can be misled by prompt injection attacks, producing harmf...

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Defender for Cloud - Threat protection for AI workloads - marcogerber.ch

Marco Gerber | Microsoft MVP @marcogerber.ch · May 1

Defender for AI Services is now GA and available for all subscriptions! 🛡️

Learn more about its capabilities: marcogerber.ch/defender-for...

Explore threat protection for AI Services in Defender for Cloud, including the new AI Services protection plan, concept, alerts, and more.

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Marco Gerber | Microsoft MVP @marcogerber.ch · Apr 30

Public Preview: Azure virtual network terminal access point (TAP). Virtual network TAP (agentless) leverages Azure’s native infrastructure to mirror traffic with minimal overhead and zero performance impact on VMs.

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Marco Gerber | Microsoft MVP @marcogerber.ch · Apr 24

Finally! Easy service upgrade and change service tier in Azure AI Search (Public Preview).

Azure AI Search now lets you easily change service tiers between Basic, S1, S2, and S3 tiers or upgrade for more capacity and features - no rebuild or reindexing needed.

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Marco Gerber | Microsoft MVP @marcogerber.ch · Apr 17

Public Preview: Remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) support in Azure Functions.

Azure Functions now supports an early preview of triggers and bindings for building tools with remote MCP and server-sent events (SSE).

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Marco Gerber | Microsoft MVP @marcogerber.ch · Apr 16

Today's learning 💡 Private Endpoints generate a /32 default route that automatically propagates within their vnet and peered vnets. In hub-spoke architectures, this can inadvertently bypass firewalls or an NVA. To mitigate this, take a look at 'Network Policies for Private Endpoints'.

Make Inherited Parameters Optional in Bicep `extends` Feature · Issue #16813 · Azure/bicep

Marco Gerber | Microsoft MVP @marcogerber.ch · Apr 15

Using 'extends' in Azure Bicep forces all parameters from the root file to be inherited and used. I suggested making this optional in a GitHub Issue - give it a thumbs up or +1 if you’d find that useful!👍

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. When using the extendable Bicep parameters feature, all parameters from a root parameter file need to be used in all inherited Bicep f...

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Marco Gerber | Microsoft MVP @marcogerber.ch · Apr 11

New season is crazy spot on as always! 😶‍🌫️

AZ CLI 2.71.x breaks bicep deployments when using Azure Devops Agent · Issue #31189 · Azure/azure-cli

Marco Gerber | Microsoft MVP @marcogerber.ch · Apr 11

Current workaround: Run 'az config set bicep.use_binary_from_path=false' at the beginning of your Azure CLI task.

See github.com/Azure/azure-...

Describe the bug When performing a bicep operation using the az cli in an Azure Devops Pipeline that has been upgraded to AZ CLI 2.71.x we seem to run in to the following: FileNotFoundError: [Errno...

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Marco Gerber | Microsoft MVP @marcogerber.ch · Apr 11

There seems to be an issue with hosted agents on Azure DevOps Pipelines and GitHub Actions. An error occurs when using ubuntu-latest and the Azure CLI task to deploy Bicep files:

ERROR: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/vsts/work/_temp/.azclitask/bin/bicep'

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Az bicep lint throws NotFound Exception Error on Microsoft hosted build-agent (Azure Pipelines) when using AzCli tasks · Issue #31226 · Azure/azure-cli

Describe the bug Running az bicep lint via the AzCLI task in ADO is failing with an error. This job was working fine until the last hour or so and just stopped working. ADO Logs: az bicep lint --fi...

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Marco Gerber | Microsoft MVP @marcogerber.ch · Apr 9

Copilot in Azure is now generally available, with all current capabilities remaining free of charge.

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Microsoft Copilot in Azure is now generally available | Microsoft Community Hub

Today, we are excited to announce General Availability (GA) of Copilot in Azure. We are also thrilled to share that the current capabilities of Copilot in...

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GitHub @github.com · Apr 5

Maintainers: Did you know you could spend less time doing repetitive tasks and more time coding? 💡

Maintainership will never be the same once you start using these GitHub Actions. ⬇️
github.blog/open-source/...

5 GitHub Actions every maintainer needs to know

With these actions, you can keep your open source projects organized, minimize repetitive and manual tasks, and focus more on writing code.

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Marco Gerber | Microsoft MVP @marcogerber.ch · Apr 3

Nice one John! 👍🏼

Announcing the Responses API and Computer-Using Agent in Azure AI Foundry | Microsoft Azure Blog

Marco Gerber | Microsoft MVP @marcogerber.ch · Apr 2

A new Computer-Using Agent (CUA) is coming to the Azure AI Foundry. This allows you to automate UI driven workflows, like autonomous UI navigation. I wonder how this works in real life and whether this is the right approach for sustainable automation.

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We’re excited to introduce two powerful innovations in Azure AI Foundry. Learn more.

Marco Gerber | Microsoft MVP @marcogerber.ch · Mar 23

Arrived in Seattle after a great flight right over Greenland, what a view! Ready for my first MVP Summit, can‘t wait to meet everybody 👋🏻 😃

#MVPBuzz #MVPSummit @alschneiter.bsky.social

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Marco Gerber | Microsoft MVP @marcogerber.ch · Mar 21

That's it! See you soon 👋

Marco Gerber | Microsoft MVP @marcogerber.ch · Mar 20

Retirement: Kubenet Networking for Azure Kubernetes Service to Be Retired on March 31, 2028. Upgrade to CNI overlay in time.

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