Co-pilot: Best Coding Assistant for IT Professionals
Last week, I came across a training video on Co-Pilot and it was fascinating to see how Co-pilot integrated into your cloud space like Azure or M365 could easily attain and communicate information to help get a job done.
One of the best implications I noticed was how you could ask Co-Pilot to write a script to create an Azure storage blob container, all done within seconds. As someone from a background in IT, this capability was quite impressive, because such result can help store large amounts of data such as back-ups for disaster recovery and so on.
Some may have used Co-Pilot already and presumed, it’s not strong enough or doesn’t do what you ask properly. But there’s actually a key into getting the result you want.
Unlike IT where we work with abstract information, Co-Pilot requires engineering specific prompts that consist of:
- Goal: The action you want it to do
- Context: Why you need the action done
- Source: The location or space you need it done
- Expectations: What the outcome should have
Let’s say your team has developed an application that is ready for its first testing. You are responsible for testing it in the VM environment in your Azure space, but don’t have the time to manually do the whole thing. What you can do, is open Co-Pilot, and simply use the following prompt:
Deploy a 2022 windows server (4 vCPUs, 16 GiB memory) virtual machine (VM) in Azure which will host a new internal application for testing and development. Must comply with our networking and security requirements. Deploy in “DevTest-RG” resource group, attached to “DevTest-VNet” Virtual network.
If you pay close attention, you will notice the prompt consists of all four elements. To break it down we have:
- Goal: Deploy a virtual machine (VM) in Azure.
- Context: VM has to host a new internal application for testing and development. Must meet our networking and security requirements.
- Source: Deploy in “DevTest-RG” resource group, attached to “DevTest-VNet” Virtual network.
- Expectations:
- OS: Windows Server 2022
- Size: Standard D4s_v3 (4 vCPUs, 16 GiB memory)
The best part about this is that for the next time you need to host another testing, Co-Pilot may need fewer details considering it’s the same project. Based on previous inputs, your Co-pilot can pre-guess all four elements and do it even faster.
What’s the next step in simplifying IT workloads?
Getting Co-Pilot is not hard but it’s not easily doable either. Many companies simply don’t have the resources to analyse different Microsoft packages and choose the best one. But there is one easier option, and that’s to choose a partner to work with. That’s where EIL Global comes into place.
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