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Your Azure DevOps pipelines have a 2027 deadline, and the clock has just started
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Your Azure DevOps pipelines have a 2027 deadline, and the clock has just started

As of 1st July 2026, the Azure DevOps issuer for workload identity federation is officially deprecated, with full retirement set for 1st July 2027. If that sentence meant nothing to you, here's the short version: any Azure Pipelines Service Connection you created before late 2025 probably needs attention, and if you ignore it, those pipelines will stop authenticating to Azure a year from now.

The portal will happily convert them for you, one Service Connection at a time, a couple of minutes each. That's perfectly fine if you have five. If you have several hundred (or more than about 10 if you're anything like me) then this isn't going to work.

But luckily for you I've gone through the hassle of figuring out how to programmatically call the migration.

https://sysadmin-central.com/2026/07/01/migrate-azure-devops-service-connections-entra-issuer/

u/SeikoShadow — 4 days ago
▲ 148 r/GoodNewsUK+2 crossposts

UK.Gov News Simplified

Like many people in the "People need to check out Gov.Uk news" thread, I had no idea how much information the government publishes directly.

After spending some time reading through the announcements, I found that a lot of them contain genuinely interesting developments, but they're often quite long, technical, or aimed at organisations rather than the general public and honestly the vast majority of it wasn't at all interesting to me as an individual.

To help myself keep up with what's actually changing, I built https://govnewssimplified.uk/.

Each day, it reviews recent GOV.UK announcements, filters for the stories most likely to affect the public, and generates plain-English summaries covering:

  • What happened
  • Why it matters
  • Who is affected
  • What happens next

The aim isn't to add opinion or political commentary, just to make government announcements easier to follow for people who don't have time to read the originals.

The About page explains the methodology in more detail. I'd be interested in any feedback on whether people find this useful or if there are ways it could be improved.

This project uses AI to provide the relevance scoring for all news articles posted on the gov.uk website in the past 24 hours and for daily updates and the past 7 days for weekly posts, the prompt below is used with Claude to generate the posts -

Write a concise daily digest blog post from these UK government announcements.
Audience: younger readers and people who want a clear and simple summary of important news.
Output rules:
- plain English, neutral tone, factual only
- no emoji
- no promotional or political framing
- around 100 words total where possible
- h2 title for each article with an unordered list of key points underneath
- each list item must include these labels in bold, each of which is an individual li:
  1) Summary
  2) Why it matters
  3) Who is affected
  4) What happens next
- include article links as HTML anchor tags at end of each article with a break between articles
- if information is uncertain, say so clearly
- use only simple HTML tags: <p>, <ul>, <li>, <strong>, <a>
govnewssimplified.uk
u/SeikoShadow — 27 days ago
▲ 34 r/UK_Food

Southern Fried Potato with Runny Egg

Healthy mix of spices (garlic, smokey paprika, black pepper, onion powder, salt) slow fried on medium heat in butter with the cover on for about 15 mins then fried on medium high for 10 mins till crispy.

Sunny side up runny egg and a little nandos salt mix to finish off the egg.

u/SeikoShadow — 1 month ago