Nathan Nellans

GitHub-hosted Runners have a few key advantages over self-hosted runners. Things like Operating System updates, security patches, and...

If you haven't already, please check out the previous parts of this series. Part 1 - All about Bicep & Deploying Bicep Files   Part 2 -...

If you haven't already, please check out the previous parts of this series. Part 1 - All about Bicep & Deploying Bicep Files   Part 2 -...

Azure Data Factory (ADF) is a fully-managed, serverless data integration service. You can easily create data pipelines to do ETL...

In this blog post, I would like to discuss all of the latest features with GitHub Copilot. The feature list is constantly changing: Some...

Shared Access Signatures (SAS) are one way to provide secure access to your Azure Storage Accounts. SAS tokens come in 3 different...

Availability Zones are physically separate locations within a single Azure region. An Availability Zone might be just a single...

Most Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings include support for private endpoints.  A private endpoint is a special type of Network...

Warnings : "Azure Stack HCI" has been re-branded/renamed to "Azure Local" ECC RAM might be a hard requirement now, where it wasn't before....

If you haven't already please check out the other parts of the series first: Part 1: The physical hardware Part 2: Prerequisite Steps &...

If you haven't already please check out the other parts of the series first: Part 1: The physical hardware Part 2: Prerequisite Steps &...

Warnings : "Azure Stack HCI" has been re-branded/renamed to "Azure Local" ECC RAM might be a hard requirement now, where it wasn't before....

If you haven't already please check out the other parts of the series first: Part 1: The physical hardware (you're reading it now) Part...

I'd like to start this post by discussing some history. Before GitHub Actions there was Azure DevOps Pipelines, which has awesome...

GitHub Packages supports multiple different types of package registries. In this post, I will be discussing the package registry for...

Lately, I have been working on a few projects that use GitHub Action Workflows. In one project, I tried to use a GitHub Workflow to...

First, let's go over some high level basics of GitHub Workflows. Each GitHub Workflow is made up of one or more Jobs. Each Job is made up...

Stages, Jobs, and Steps There are a lot of topics to cover for YAML-based Pipelines in Azure DevOps. So, I will be breaking this up into...

GitHub Advanced Security, or GHAS, is a collection of features and tools to help you maintain secure and high quality code in your GitHub...

In my head, I consider Synapse Analytics to be somewhat of a "version 2" of the Azure Data Factory (ADF) resource. However, I don't...