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 1.0 versus Lab 2.0 I've previously written a whole series of articles on the 1.0 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 to

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...

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" Microsoft requires ECC RAM now. That means, it may not be possible to use the MS-01 workstations to build a cluster anymore. Update: I found a workaround If you haven't already please check out the other parts of the series first: Part 1 : The physical hardware Part 2 : Prerequisite Steps & Driver problems Part 3 : Creating the cluster Part 4 : Workload: AKS - Azure Kubernetes Service Part 5: Wor

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" Microsoft requires ECC RAM now. That means, it may not be possible to use the MS-01 workstations to build a cluster anymore. Update: I found a workaround If you haven't already please check out the other parts of the series first: Part 1 : The physical hardware Part 2: Prerequisite Steps & Driver problems (you're reading it now) Part 3 : Creating the cluster Part 4 : Workload: AKS - Azure Kubernet

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...

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...

Azure App Services is one of Azure's oldest services. In fact, it is considered to be Azure's original PaaS service. There is a lot...

AKS Edge Essentials is lightweight, local installation of AKS that runs on your on-premises hardware. Unlike other on-premise AKS...

If you haven't already, please read Part 1 of this series before continuing. After completing part 1, you'll have some ARM Templates...