Nathan Nellans

Please check out all parts of this series: Part 1: The physical hardware (you're reading it now) Part 2: Coming Soon! Lab v1.0 versus Lab v2.0 I've previously written a whole series of articles on the v1.0 version of my Azure Local home lab (formerly known as Azure Stack HCI). You can find that series here . Initially, I had no plans to upgrade my lab. But, then Minisforum announced their MS-02 Ultra line of mini PCs. After seeing how cool they were, it didn't take me long

Overview A GitHub Codespace acts as your own personal development environment hosted in the cloud. Each Codespace runs inside a special Docker dev container, which in turn runs on an Azure virtual machine. The infrastructure (virtual machine, docker container, etc.) is automatically created and managed for you by GitHub. Once created, you are able to connect to the dev container using a few different methods. Once connected, you can do your standard development work using

GitHub Copilot can be used in many different ways (copilot chat, copilot coding agent, copilot code review, etc.). It can also be used in many different applications (GitHub.com, VS Code, Visual Studio, etc.). Finally, there are many ways to customize how Copilot works (repository instructions, path instructions, custom agents, etc.). The goal of this post will be to break down the various different methods of customizing Copilot's behavior and explaining when and where eac

Microsoft Foundry has everything you need to design, customize, and manage AI applications and agents. Microsoft Foundry has gone through quite a lot of changes and transformations over a short period of time. Let's go over a quick timeline: Nov. 2023: Azure AI Studio is released in Public Preview ( link ) Nov. 2024: Azure AI Studio is re-branded as Azure AI Foundry ( link ) May 2025: Azure AI Foundry is re-launched under a new resource type ( link ) This new resource typ

The Kubernetes API server is the core of the Kubernetes control plane and is the central way to interact with and manage your clusters. ...

AKS Workload Identity enables applications running in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to securely access other Azure resources (KeyVault,...

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 features are in Public Preview. Further, some preview features are locked behind waitlists Some features are Generally Available (GA) Some features are only available to specific Copilot subscription levels Some features are only available in your IDE with the proper extensions or plugins installed. Further, some features are only availab

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...