Agentic DevOps: Evolving software development with GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Azure

Agentic DevOps is the adjacent improvement successful the bundle improvement lifecycle. Read however these AI agents assistance developers accelerate transportation and enactment focused connected high-impact enactment portion remaining successful power of the process.

GitHub Copilot has a caller coding agent—and it’s acceptable to articulation your team. From readying to production, the full bundle improvement lifecycle is being reimagined done intelligent agents—with you astatine the helm. At Microsoft Build 2025, we’re diving into the seismic displacement happening successful bundle development—and unveiling the aboriginal we’ll physique together.

Just a fewer weeks ago, arsenic we celebrated Microsoft’s fiftieth anniversary, we reflected connected the archetypal vision: a “software factory.” From the start, Microsoft has been built by developers, for developers. Now arsenic we participate our fifty-first year, we’re reimagining what that mill looks like—with you astatine the halfway of a caller epoch of bundle creation.

Being a developer is similar being a wizard: you imagination up what’s imaginable and bring it to beingness with code. But arsenic apps and systems turn much complex, demands increase, and method indebtedness piles up, the magic tin fade. Coding turns into attraction and momentum stalls. We privation to assistance you interruption escaped from the grind—so you tin rediscover the joy, your flow, and the magic of building.

GitHub Copilot has already transformed the mode we code—which is wherefore 15 cardinal developers trust connected it to physique faster. But penning caller codification is conscionable 1 tiny portion of the job. The remainder of a developer’s time is packed with designing systems, digging done docs, debugging, refactoring, and wrestling with bequest code.

That’s wherever agentic workflows with GitHub Copilot travel in. They’re helping america determination faster from thought to production, boost codification quality, accelerate collaboration, fortify security, and present code method indebtedness and support apps moving smoothly successful production.  

Introducing agentic DevOps

This is the instauration of a caller attack we’re calling agentic DevOps—the adjacent improvement of DevOps, reimagined for a satellite wherever intelligent agents collaborate with you and with each other. The agents automate and optimize each signifier of the bundle lifecycle. It’s similar adding a unit of tireless teammates to your developer squad—handling bug fixes, tiny features, documentation, and more—so you tin enactment focused connected the enactment that matters most.  

In the aged world, bundle improvement was a long, dilatory relay—weeks to plan, months to build, quarters to launch. Today, ideas go prototypes successful hours and scope accumulation successful days. Agentic DevOps volition assistance you physique faster, crush your backlog, cancel tech debt, unafraid your apps, and support it each moving successful production. The champion portion is we support you astatine the halfway of this orchestra, conducting agents, and approving recommendations, truthful you tin get backmost to building epic stuff.

GitHub Copilot is your way retired of the grind—so you tin physique with joy, flight the mundane, and find that originative spark that brought you to this manufacture successful the archetypal place. It’s truthful overmuch much than codification completion: Copilot is already reviewing code, surfacing vulnerabilities, and helping resoluteness them earlier they scope production. Here’s what’s caller and however it each fits unneurotic to marque agentic DevOps a reality. Don’t hide to cheque retired Thomas Dohmke‘s, GitHub CEO, instrumentality connected the latest with GitHub Copilot.

• Agent mode: Agent mode supercharges everything you already emotion astir GitHub Copilot—now applied to complex, multistep coding tasks successful a seamless, collaborative experience. It tin analyse full codebases, marque edits crossed files, make and tally tests, hole bugs, and adjacent suggest terminal commands—all from a azygous prompt. And now, it’s disposable successful each your favourite codification editors: Microsoft Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio, JetBrains, Eclipse, and Xcode.
• New coding agent: Our newest coding cause levels up GitHub Copilot from a brace programmer to peer—working similar a full-fledged subordinate of your team. You tin delegate it tasks similar codification reviews, penning tests, fixing bugs, oregon adjacent implementing afloat specs. It tin besides collaborate with different agents to tackle much analyzable challenges during improvement and production. With built-in audit logs and subdivision protections, each projected alteration is reviewed earlier it ships. Copilot is your newest teammate—taking connected the tedious enactment truthful you tin absorption connected what truly moves the needle.
• New app modernization capabilities: Shipping to accumulation isn’t the decorativeness line—and maintaining bequest codification shouldn’t dilatory you down. GitHub Copilot tin present assistance you modernize your stack by handling codification assessments, dependency updates, and remediation crossed your bequest Java and .NET apps, and mainframe modernization is coming soon. It generates and executes update plans automatically, portion giving you afloat visibility, control, and wide summary of changes. The result? More secure, maintainable, and cost-efficient apps. Turn the tables—so you’re not crushed by method debt, you’re crushing it. When you’re not stuck cleaning up the past, you wide the way for existent innovation—and yet marque abstraction to physique what’s next.
• New Azure Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Agent: You build—we’ve got your backmost erstwhile things spell bump successful the night. The caller SRE Agent for Azure frees developers from the changeless accent of late-night alerts by monitoring accumulation systems astir the clock, responding to incidents successful existent time, and autonomously troubleshooting issues arsenic they arise. It continuously tracks wellness and show crossed Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure App Service, serverless, and database environments—drawing connected the heavy cognition we’ve built operating Azure-based services astatine planetary scale. The cause helps you resoluteness problems accelerated by guiding done the basal origin investigation interactively oregon adjacent resolving them autonomously. Best of all, erstwhile remediation actions are taken oregon repair items are identified, they’re logged arsenic GitHub issues truthful your squad tin travel done to adjacent the loop. With faster recovery, less wake-up calls, and systems that cognize however to self-heal, your apps enactment resilient—and your squad stays rested, clear-headed, and acceptable to physique what’s next.

Beyond the caller agentic capabilities that we are announcing, we’re besides releasing GitHub Models to marque gathering AI apps adjacent easier. If GitHub Copilot changed however we constitute code, Azure AI Foundry is changing what we tin build. And now, that powerfulness is disposable straight successful your GitHub workflow. With a caller autochthonal integration, you tin experimentation with cutting-edge models from OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, Mistal, Cohere, and more—right from GitHub. Compare show and terms broadside by side, take the champion acceptable for your app oregon agent, swap models with each utilizing a simple, unified API, and adjacent invoke a exemplary oregon cause from a GitHub Action to streamline the offline valuation process oregon adjacent conscionable to summarize your unfastened issues. And with built-in endeavor guardrails, your exemplary choices enactment secure, responsible, and aligned with your team’s policies.

Let’s measurement into a time successful the beingness of a developer wherever agents bash much than assist—they measurement in, enactment fast, and support things running—no substance the hour.   

One much happening that volition alteration the game

As GitHub Copilot has evolved successful Visual Studio Code, AI has go a halfway portion of the developer experience—powering everything from investigating to security. We’re taking the adjacent measurement successful our open-source journey: Microsoft is open-sourcing GitHub Copilot successful VS Code. The AI-powered capabilities from the GitHub Copilot extensions volition present beryllium portion of the aforesaid open-source repository that drives the world’s astir fashionable improvement tool. This reflects our committedness to transparency, community-driven innovation, and giving developers a greater dependable successful shaping the aboriginal of AI-assisted development.

We judge this caller epoch of bundle development—powered by agents—will beryllium arsenic transformative arsenic the displacement to the cloud. It removes friction, reduces complexity, and rewrites the outgo operation that has held teams backmost for decades. But possibly astir importantly, it brings thing backmost that we don’t speech astir enough: joy. When we wide the backlog, offload the mundane, and absorption connected what we genuinely emotion to build, we don’t conscionable velocity up—we unlock the aboriginal we’ve been waiting to create.

Join america astatine Microsoft Build from May 19 to 22, 2025, and spot the latest connected these announcements

• BRK100: Reimagining Software Development and DevOps with Agentic AI
• BRK113: The Agent Awakens: Collaborative Development with GitHub Copilot
• BRK118: Accelerate Azure Development with GitHub Copilot, VS Code & AI
• BRK131: Java App Modernization Simplified with AI
• BRK102: Agent Mode successful Action: AI Coding with Vibe and Spec-Driven Flows
• BRK101: The Future of .NET App Modernization Streamlined with AI