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Fabric Item CI/CD Is Mostly Solved. Your Tenant Isn't
Git integration and fabric-cicd ship Fabric items well. Workspaces, capacity, domains, roles and tenant settings still need their own source of truth.
GitHub Actions
21 articles
8 min read
Foundry Agent Versions as Releases: Git, Evals and Publishing
How I'd run Microsoft Foundry agent changes like releases in April 2026: definitions in Git, versions from CI, evaluation gates and Agent Application promotion.
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The Day-One Pipeline: Push to Main, Ship to App Service
A minimal GitHub Actions to App Service container pipeline for small apps, and the specific signals that tell you when slots, canaries or flags are worth it.
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End-to-End MLOps with Azure Machine Learning and GitHub Actions
Implement approval gates before production deployment. Track model lineage, performance metrics, and data dependencies for full auditability.
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Azure DevOps vs GitHub Actions: Choosing the Right CI/CD Platform
Feature Azure DevOps GitHub Actions YAML Config azure pipelines.yml .github/workflows/ .yml Hosted Runners Microsoft hosted GitHub hosted Self hosted Yes…
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OIDC Tokens in GitHub Actions
OIDC eliminates the need for long-lived cloud credentials, improving security posture.
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GitHub Actions Artifact Management
Proper artifact management enables efficient multi-job pipelines and deployment workflows.
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GitHub Actions Caching Strategies
Proper caching can reduce build times by 50-80% for dependency-heavy projects.
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Creating Custom GitHub Actions
Custom actions enable sophisticated automation tailored to your specific workflows.
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Building GitHub Composite Actions
Composite actions bridge the gap between simple step sequences and full custom actions.
1 min read
GitHub Reusable Workflows Patterns
Reusable workflows reduce duplication and improve maintainability across repositories.
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GitHub Required Workflows for Enterprise
Required workflows ensure consistent security and quality standards across the enterprise.
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GitHub Actions Larger Runners Deep Dive
Larger runners can dramatically reduce build times when used effectively with parallelizable workloads.
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GitHub Actions Improvements - October 2022
GitHub now offers larger hosted runners for more demanding workloads. Enforce workflows across all repositories in an organization.
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Dependabot Without the PR Flood: Config, Auto-Merge and Triage
How to configure Dependabot so update PRs stay reviewable: schedules, PR limits, ignore rules, safe auto-merge with GitHub Actions, and alert triage.
7 min read
Tuning CodeQL Code Scanning: Query Suites, Custom Queries and SARIF
How to tune GitHub code scanning in early 2022: choosing CodeQL query suites, scoping paths, writing a custom query, and adding third-party SARIF results.
7 min read
GitHub Advanced Security: What You Get and How to Roll It Out
What GitHub Advanced Security includes in early 2022, how its active-committer licensing works, and a staged plan for enabling CodeQL and secret scanning.
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CI/CD for Machine Learning: Building Reliable ML Pipelines
ML CI/CD in 2021 became essential for production systems. The tooling caught up with the need, and now there's no excuse for manual deployments.
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GitHub Actions Workflows for Azure Deployments
GitHub Actions workflows for Azure deployment have become my default for any project that lives on GitHub and targets Azure. The Azure/login action with…
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CI/CD to Azure with GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions went from "interesting alternative to Azure DevOps Pipelines" to "my default CI/CD choice for most new Azure projects" in about twelve…
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Hosting My Hugo Blog on Azure Static Web Apps While It's in Preview
Why I picked Azure Static Web Apps (Preview) for a Hugo blog, how the CLI and GitHub Actions setup works, and the preview limits to weigh before you follow.