Unlocking a New DevOps Era

GitHub Copilot for Azure was first introduced at Ignite 2024 as a public preview, empowering developers, IT operators, and DevOps practitioners to leverage natural language to provision, configure, and manage resources within their own Azure environments.

Since then, many have used GitHub Copilot for Azure as an AI-powered developer assistant that transforms how they build and manage applications on Azure, directly from Visual Studio Code. Early adopters have shared overwhelming feedback on how it accelerates their Azure development. It flattens the learning curve and helps users stay focused by minimizing context switching.

We are excited to announce the General Availability (GA) of GitHub Copilot for Azure. This release marks a significant milestone, making GitHub Copilot for Azure ready for production environments and enterprise-scale adoption. With GA, we’re introducing support for Agent Mode, unlocking a new era of agentic DevOps for every Azure developer.

Key Features Now Generally Available

With this release, GitHub Copilot for Azure offers:

• Broad Visual Studio Code Support: Integrates with your day-to-day development workspace.
• Seamless Azure Integration: Uses your real Azure resource details as context to provide custom-tailored solutions.
• Agent Mode Orchestration: Moves beyond code suggestions, orchestrating and executing multi-step infrastructure and DevOps workflows.
• Enterprise Security and Compliance: Ready for production and sensitive workloads, with built-in security and access controls.

Integrating Azure Capabilities into Agent Mode: Unlocking Agentic DevOps

General Availability comes with a transformative advancement: GitHub Copilot for Azure support in Agent Mode. This new capability reimagines GitHub Copilot as your proactive, intelligent teammate—one that can not only suggest code, but break down complex DevOps instructions, coordinate tasks, and interact directly with Azure resources (with your approval).

With Agent Mode, you can:

• 🚀 Generate code that adheres to Azure libraries and recommended practices
• ⚙️ Create and edit infrastructure-as-code artifacts for Azure resources
• 🛠️ Deploy and troubleshoot applications on Azure
• 📖 Get information about your Azure resources including settings, certificate expiration, and resource health

Experience the power of Agentic DevOps with these sample prompts:

• “List my Azure storage accounts by region.”
• “Search across my other Azure subscriptions.”
• “Generate an Azure Bicep template to create a new storage account in West US.”
• “Rename the new storage account in the bicep template by removing all non-alphabetic characters and create it in East US instead of West US.”
• “Use azd (Azure Developer CLI) to deploy my new storage account.”

Getting Started      

Getting started is simple:

1. Download GitHub Copilot for Azure from the Visual Studio Code Marketplace.
2. Open GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code.
3. Set mode to Agent mode.
4. Prompt GitHub Copilot to perform Azure-related tasks with your own language.
5. When prompted, sign in to your Azure account and grant required permissions.
6. For an in-depth walkthrough, check out Get Started with GitHub Copilot for Azure.

Join the Future of Intelligent Cloud Development

The General Availability of GitHub Copilot for Azure represents our ongoing commitment to empowering every developer and IT team to achieve more with Azure. With powerful new agentic capabilities, GitHub Copilot for Azure will help you innovate faster, operate more efficiently, and confidently manage complex cloud projects—all while reducing manual effort and unlocking the full potential of AI-driven DevOps for your organization.