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Marco Gerber | Microsoft MVP
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Curious potato, keen on Azure, Bicep and Infrastructure as Code. Microsoft Azure & AI Foundry MVP. Mountain climber and photography lover. Proud beer practitioner. 📍Switzerland North 🔗 https://marcogerber.ch/ 📋 https://github.com/gerbermarco/cheat-sheets
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What if Bicep could do more than deploy to Azure? 🦾

With Bicep Local Deploy, you can extend Bicep much like Terraform providers - from automating deployments to managing on-prem or SaaS.

Learn more about how to use it, and what’s happening behind the scenes. 🔗
Bicep Local Deploy - Deploy anything using Azure Bicep - marcogerber.ch
Discover Bicep Local Deploy, an experimental feature that enables custom extensions to run locally - taking Bicep beyond Azure.
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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-...
Bicep: The content for this response was already consumed - marcogerber.ch
Troubleshooting the "The content for this response was already consumed" error in Azure Bicep deployments with Azure CLI.
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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.
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...
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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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.

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/update...
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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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Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Subscribe to Microsoft Azure today for service updates, all in one place. Check out the new Cloud Platform roadmap to see our latest product plans.
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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'.
New season is crazy spot on as always! 😶‍🌫️
Reposted by Marco Gerber | Microsoft MVP
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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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.

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/a...
Announcing the Responses API and Computer-Using Agent in Azure AI Foundry | Microsoft Azure Blog
We’re excited to introduce two powerful innovations in Azure AI Foundry. Learn more.
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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
That's it! See you soon 👋