chore: Latest changes merge from main to demo

[Prajwal-Microsoft]

Purpose

This pull request updates several GitHub Actions workflows and development configuration files to improve CI/CD automation, enhance template validation, and standardize environment variable naming. The changes include introducing a dedicated workflow for AZD template validation, refactoring deployment workflows for clarity and maintainability, upgrading action versions, and aligning environment variable names for consistency across workflows.

Workflow and Deployment Improvements

• Introduced a new .github/workflows/azd-template-validation.yml workflow to regularly validate Azure templates using microsoft/template-validation-action, running on a schedule and on manual trigger.
• Refactored .github/workflows/azure-dev.yml to focus on deployment, removing template validation steps and adding environment setup, Azure/AZD login, and resource provisioning via azd up. The workflow now triggers only on changes to infrastructure or deployment-related files.
• Added path filters to .github/workflows/codeql.yml and .github/workflows/deploy.yml to restrict runs to relevant source and infrastructure changes. [1] [2]

Environment Variable and Input Standardization

• Renamed environment variables and workflow inputs for log analytics and AI project resource IDs to AZURE_ENV_EXISTING_LOG_ANALYTICS_WORKSPACE_RID and AZURE_EXISTING_AIPROJECT_RESOURCE_ID across deploy-v2.yml, deploy-orchestrator.yml, and associated validation logic, ensuring consistency and clarity. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

CI Tooling and Action Upgrades

• Upgraded several GitHub Actions to their latest major versions for improved performance and security, including actions/checkout (v6), github/codeql-action (v4), lycheeverse/lychee-action (v2.8.0), tj-actions/changed-files (v47.0.6), and codfish/semantic-release-action (v5). [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Development Container Updates

• Updated .devcontainer/devcontainer.json to explicitly specify the latest Bicep version for Azure CLI, improving reproducibility of the development environment.

Additional Minor Enhancements

• Added a new environment variable, GPT_REALTIME_MIN_CAPACITY, to .github/workflows/deploy.yml.
• Updated references to AI service location environment variables for clarity in orchestrator workflows.

These changes collectively modernize the CI/CD pipeline, improve maintainability, and ensure better alignment between infrastructure automation and environment configuration.

Does this introduce a breaking change?

• Yes
• No

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