Taking a look at Github Enterprise Server & Github Connect

Introduction

For today’s post we’re going to take a look at GitHub Connect … It’s the link between the On-Premises installation of GitHub Enterprise Server and the popular SaaS offering (as we all have come to love it) called GitHub. 😉

 

Installing GitHub Enterprise Server (on Azure)

So my journey for today started with registering for the GitHub Enterprise Trial, where I decided to install it on Azure… as my “On Premises” location.

Hardening your storage account with Private Link / Endpoint

Introduction

Earlier this week, a new capability called “Azure Private Link” (and also “Azure Private Endpoint”) went into public preview. As a nice copy & past from the documentation page ;

Azure Private Link enables you to access Azure PaaS Services (for example, Azure Storage and SQL Database) and Azure hosted customer/partner services over a Private Endpoint in your virtual network. Traffic between your virtual network and the service traverses over the Microsoft backbone network, eliminating exposure from the public Internet. You can also create your own Private Link Service in your virtual network (VNet) and deliver it privately to your customers. The setup and consumption experience using Azure Private Link is consistent across Azure PaaS, customer-owned, and shared partner services.

As always, we’ll take this one out for a spin! For this we’ll see if we can access a storage account privately (from a virtual machine) over the VNET.