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 This Week I Learned -  * Using Azure Resource Mover service, you can currently move the following resources across regions: Azure VMs and associated disks NICs Availability sets Azure virtual networks Public IP addresses Network security groups (NSGs) Internal and public load balancers Azure SQL databases and elastic pools *  Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure enterprise-scale landing zones provides guidance on landing zone critical design areas to build and operationalize your Azure environment. From Google  Developer Advocate  Priyanka Vergadia's GCP sketch notes *  The Chaos Monkey Guide for Engineers is a full how-to of Chaos Monkey, including what it is, its origin story, its pros and cons, its relation to the broader topic of Chaos Engineering * Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is an open source tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared am...

I loved watching the  two-part Nat Geo series  India From Above on Hotstar with polished audio commentary in Telugu. It presents an amazing aerial view of places in incredible India. Shot beautifully with drone cameras mostly, it comes with subtitles in English & audio commentary in English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Bangla  It tells engaging stories about life and people in diverse places across India.  The 69-year old priest of a temple inside the Gir forest, Bharatdas Darshandas, lives alone in the company of wildlife. The priest's solitude is broken once every five years - when he steps out to cast his vote in the Indian national election.   Episode 1 covers Prayagraj, Goa, Nandgaon, Sriharikota, Veraval, Kamuthi, Ladakh, Gir, Delhi, Jodhpur. Episode 2 covers Rann of Kutch, Khichan, Chand Baori stepwell in Abhaneri, Loktak lake, Keibul Lamjao National Park (the only floating national park in the world), Vizhinjam, Cherrapunji, Bhedaghat, The Dhuandhar ...

This Week I Learned -  * During Azure Site Recovery replication between source and target regions for Azure VM disaster recovery between Azure regions, if the source VM has a Hybrid User Benefit (HUB) license enabled, a test failover or failed over VM also uses the HUB license.  RBAC policies, Extensions, Virtual machine scale sets are not replicated to the failover VM in target region.   * Interesting to know that each node in a cluster can run a different container platform/runtime   *  Google unveiled Google Cloud Rapid Assessment & Migration Program (RAMP), which has six components meant to help customers adopt its cloud platform and services. Google is also offering prospects a migration assessment at no charge. The assessment includes an inventory of a company's virtual and physical servers, as well as a total cost of ownership report on moving to the cloud that is valued at $20,000, according to the company. Google partners StratoZone ...