GitHub Copilot Customization Explained for Beginners: Instructions, Prompt Files, Skills, Agents, and Hooks Introduction If you've recently started using GitHub Copilot, you've probably come across terms like Instructions , Prompt Files , Skills , Agents , and Hooks . At first glance, they all seem to do the same thing—they tell Copilot what to do. So why does GitHub have five different customization features? The answer is simple: each feature solves a different problem. Think of GitHub Copilot as a new developer joining your team. On their first day, you don't just hand them code. You explain your coding standards, give them reusable templates, teach them specialized knowledge, assign them a role, and automate repetitive tasks. That's exactly how GitHub Copilot customization works. In this article, you'll learn what each feature does, when to use it, and how they all work together. By the end, you'll know which feature to start with and which ones can wait un...
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How to enable Automatic Guest OS Patching for Windows Azure VMs?
For any organization and project security plays a very important role, towards that Microsoft tries to simplify and eases the effort required by the customer or end-user. One such thing that they recently announced is Automatic Guest OS patching for windows Azure VMs which is now public preview. With Azure Automatic Guest OS patching enabled it helps update management by safely and automatically patching virtual machines to maintain security compliance. Here VMs are checked periodically for available operating system patches. Operating system patches classified as critical or security are automatically downloaded and applied on the VM. If VM is powered off during assessment by the platform for patching, VM will be automatically assessed during the next periodic assessment when it's turned on. Patches are applied within the 30 days of the monthly Windows update release. Automatic VM guest patching has the following capabilities: Patches classified ...
Azure Front Door vs Azure Traffic Manager?
In my previous blog post, we looked in detail Azure Front Door (AFD) . In this blog post, let's compare Azure Front Door (AFD) with another popular Azure service named Azure Traffic Manager (ATM). Prior to AFD most of the applications made use of ATM in their architecture now with AFD being available it's good to understand in which scenarios these individual services are ideal. Azure Front Door (AFD) Azure Front Door Service (AFD) a scalable and secure entry point for the fast delivery of your global applications. Azure Front Door allows you to transform your global (multi-region) applications into robust, high-performance applications, APIs, and content. Azure Traffic Manager (ATM) Azure Traffic Manager is a DNS-based traffic load balancer for geographically distributed Datacenters. Traffic Manager uses DNS to direct traffic to endpoint based on the traffic routing method and health of the endpoints. Similarities between AFD and ATM Both Azure Services support Multi-...
Azure Front Door - Boost Your Web Application
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