I’m back at the Nordcloud offices for another Azure and Friends meetup. The weather today was nice - sunny and chilly (thanks Finland!). There was fresh pizza and drinks.

There was a nice introduction by Azure and Friends - who they are and a call to give talks. They reminisced about some of the talks they have had about giving these talks, for example - a fairly meta thing to do.

Digital Sovereignty on Azure by Jari Lietzen (Nordcloud)

Jari talked about sovereign cloud - what is it, why do you need it and how can it be implemented in an Azure context.
An interesting discussion took place after the talk about the costs of Azure local for a small SaaS company - the costs really add up and you need people to manage the services. The consensus was that local was always meant to be a niche product, and it will change over the next few months - but not that much.

Bicep Console by Teemu Tapanila (Mallow)

The console command provides a repo environment for bicep expressions.
Teemu took us through different examples that build up to him using a custom function to set the lifecycle rules for a storage account based on environment.
Why does this exist? For AI to quickly validate bicep.