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

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. ...