Agentic DevOps is the following evolution within the software program growth lifecycle. Learn how these AI brokers assist builders speed up supply and keep centered on high-impact work whereas remaining in charge of the method.
GitHub Copilot has a brand new coding agent—and it’s prepared to hitch your crew. From planning to manufacturing, all the software program growth lifecycle is being reimagined by way of clever brokers—with you on the helm. At Microsoft Construct 2025, we’re diving into the seismic shift occurring in software program growth—and unveiling the long run we’ll construct collectively.
Only a few weeks in the past, as we celebrated Microsoft’s fiftieth anniversary, we mirrored on the unique imaginative and prescient: a “software program manufacturing unit.” From the beginning, Microsoft has been constructed by builders, for builders. Now as we enter our fifty-first 12 months, we’re reimagining what that manufacturing unit seems to be like—with you on the heart of a brand new period of software program creation.
Being a developer is like being a wizard: you dream up what’s doable and convey it to life with code. However as apps and methods develop extra advanced, calls for enhance, and technical debt piles up, the magic can fade. Coding turns into upkeep and momentum stalls. We need to make it easier to break away from the grind—so you possibly can rediscover the enjoyment, your stream, and the magic of constructing.
GitHub Copilot has already remodeled the way in which we code—which is why 15 million builders depend on it to construct quicker. However writing new code is only one small a part of the job. The remainder of a developer’s day is filled with designing methods, digging by way of docs, debugging, refactoring, and wrestling with legacy code.
That’s the place agentic workflows with GitHub Copilot are available. They’re serving to us transfer quicker from thought to manufacturing, increase code high quality, speed up collaboration, strengthen safety, and now handle technical debt and hold apps operating easily in manufacturing.
Introducing agentic DevOps
That is the inspiration of a brand new strategy we’re calling agentic DevOps—the following evolution of DevOps, reimagined for a world the place clever brokers collaborate with you and with one another. The brokers automate and optimize each stage of the software program lifecycle. It’s like including a crew of tireless teammates to your developer squad—dealing with bug fixes, small options, documentation, and extra—so you possibly can keep centered on the work that issues most.
Within the outdated world, software program growth was a protracted, sluggish relay—weeks to plan, months to construct, quarters to launch. Right now, concepts turn out to be prototypes in hours and attain manufacturing in days. Agentic DevOps will make it easier to construct quicker, crush your backlog, cancel tech debt, safe your apps, and hold all of it operating in manufacturing. The most effective half is we hold you on the heart of this orchestra, conducting brokers, and approving suggestions, so you will get again to constructing epic stuff.
GitHub Copilot is your path out of the grind—so you possibly can construct with pleasure, escape the mundane, and discover that inventive spark that introduced you to this trade within the first place. It’s a lot greater than code completion: Copilot is already reviewing code, surfacing vulnerabilities, and serving to resolve them earlier than they attain manufacturing. Right here’s what’s new and the way it all matches collectively to make agentic DevOps a actuality. Don’t neglect to take a look at Thomas Dohmke‘s, GitHub CEO, tackle the newest with GitHub Copilot.
- Agent mode: Agent mode supercharges every part you already love about GitHub Copilot—now utilized to advanced, multistep coding duties in a seamless, collaborative expertise. It could analyze total codebases, make edits throughout recordsdata, generate and run assessments, repair bugs, and even recommend terminal instructions—all from a single immediate. And now, it’s out there in all of your favourite code editors: Microsoft Visible Studio Code and Visible Studio, JetBrains, Eclipse, and Xcode.
- New coding agent: Our latest coding agent ranges up GitHub Copilot from a pair programmer to look—working like a full-fledged member of your crew. You may assign it duties like code evaluations, writing assessments, fixing bugs, and even implementing full specs. It could additionally collaborate with different brokers to sort out extra advanced challenges throughout growth and manufacturing. With built-in audit logs and department protections, each proposed change is reviewed earlier than it ships. Copilot is your latest teammate—taking over the tedious work so you possibly can give attention to what actually strikes the needle.
- New app modernization capabilities: Delivery to manufacturing isn’t the end line—and sustaining legacy code shouldn’t sluggish you down. GitHub Copilot can now make it easier to modernize your stack by dealing with code assessments, dependency updates, and remediation throughout your legacy Java and .NET apps, and mainframe modernization is coming quickly. It generates and executes replace plans routinely, whereas providing you with full visibility, management, and clear abstract of adjustments. The outcome? Safer, maintainable, and cost-efficient apps. Flip the tables—so that you’re not crushed by technical debt, you’re crushing it. Whenever you’re not caught cleansing up the previous, you clear the trail for actual innovation—and at last make house to construct what’s subsequent.
- New Azure Website Reliability Engineering (SRE) Agent: You construct—we’ve acquired your again when issues go bump within the evening. The brand new SRE Agent for Azure frees builders from the fixed stress of late-night alerts by monitoring manufacturing methods across the clock, responding to incidents in actual time, and autonomously troubleshooting points as they come up. It constantly tracks well being and efficiency throughout Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure App Service, serverless, and database environments—drawing on the deep data we’ve constructed working Azure-based providers at world scale. The agent helps you resolve issues quick by guiding by way of the basis trigger evaluation interactively and even resolving them autonomously. Better of all, when remediation actions are taken or restore objects are recognized, they’re logged as GitHub points so your crew can observe by way of to shut the loop. With quicker restoration, fewer wake-up calls, and methods that know how you can self-heal, your apps keep resilient—and your crew stays rested, clear-headed, and able to construct what’s subsequent.
Past the brand new agentic capabilities that we’re asserting, we’re additionally releasing GitHub Fashions to make constructing AI apps even simpler. If GitHub Copilot modified how we write code, Azure AI Foundry is altering what we will construct. And now, that energy is on the market straight in your GitHub workflow. With a brand new native integration, you possibly can experiment with cutting-edge fashions from OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, Mistal, Cohere, and extra—proper from GitHub. Examine efficiency and worth facet by facet, select the very best match to your app or agent, swap fashions with every utilizing a easy, unified API, and even invoke a mannequin or agent from a GitHub Motion to streamline the offline analysis course of and even simply to summarize your open points. And with built-in enterprise guardrails, your mannequin decisions keep safe, accountable, and aligned together with your crew’s insurance policies.
Let’s step right into a day within the lifetime of a developer the place brokers do greater than help—they step in, act quick, and hold issues operating—irrespective of the hour.
Another factor that may change the sport
As GitHub Copilot has advanced in Visible Studio Code, AI has turn out to be a core a part of the developer expertise—powering every part from testing to safety. We’re taking the following step in our open-source journey: Microsoft is open-sourcing GitHub Copilot in VS Code. The AI-powered capabilities from the GitHub Copilot extensions will now be a part of the identical open-source repository that drives the world’s hottest growth instrument. This displays our dedication to transparency, community-driven innovation, and giving builders a better voice in shaping the way forward for AI-assisted growth.
We imagine this new period of software program growth—powered by brokers—might be as transformative because the shift to the cloud. It removes friction, reduces complexity, and rewrites the associated fee construction that has held groups again for many years. However perhaps most significantly, it brings one thing again that we don’t discuss sufficient: pleasure. After we clear the backlog, offload the mundane, and give attention to what we actually like to construct, we don’t simply velocity up—we unlock the long run we’ve been ready to create.
Be part of us at Microsoft Construct from Could 19 to 22, 2025, and see the newest on these bulletins
- BRK100: Reimagining Software program Improvement and DevOps with Agentic AI
- BRK113: The Agent Awakens: Collaborative Improvement with GitHub Copilot
- BRK118: Speed up Azure Improvement with GitHub Copilot, VS Code & AI
- BRK131: Java App Modernization Simplified with AI
- BRK102: Agent Mode in Motion: AI Coding with Vibe and Spec-Pushed Flows
- BRK101: The Way forward for .NET App Modernization Streamlined with AI
