Agentic DevOps is the following evolution within the software program improvement lifecycle. Learn how these AI brokers assist builders speed up supply and keep targeted on high-impact work whereas remaining answerable for the method.
GitHub Copilot has a brand new coding agent—and it’s prepared to affix your staff. From planning to manufacturing, your complete software program improvement 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 improvement—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 facility.” 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 facility seems like—with you on the middle 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 complicated, calls for enhance, and technical debt piles up, the magic can fade. Coding turns into upkeep and momentum stalls. We wish to assist you break away from the grind—so you may rediscover the enjoyment, your stream, and the magic of constructing.
GitHub Copilot has already remodeled the best way we code—which is why 15 million builders depend on it to construct sooner. 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 sooner from thought to manufacturing, enhance code high quality, speed up collaboration, strengthen safety, and now handle technical debt and maintain 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 may keep targeted on the work that issues most.
Within the outdated world, software program improvement was a protracted, sluggish relay—weeks to plan, months to construct, quarters to launch. At present, concepts grow to be prototypes in hours and attain manufacturing in days. Agentic DevOps will assist you construct sooner, crush your backlog, cancel tech debt, safe your apps, and maintain all of it operating in manufacturing. The very best half is we maintain you on the middle of this orchestra, conducting brokers, and approving suggestions, so you may get again to constructing epic stuff.
GitHub Copilot is your path out of the grind—so you may construct with pleasure, escape the mundane, and discover that artistic 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 most recent with GitHub Copilot.
- Agent mode: Agent mode supercharges every part you already love about GitHub Copilot—now utilized to complicated, multistep coding duties in a seamless, collaborative expertise. It may analyze total codebases, make edits throughout recordsdata, generate and run exams, repair bugs, and even counsel 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 see—working like a full-fledged member of your staff. You possibly can assign it duties like code opinions, writing exams, fixing bugs, and even implementing full specs. It may additionally collaborate with different brokers to deal with extra complicated challenges throughout improvement 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 may deal with 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 assist you 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 mechanically, whereas providing you with full visibility, management, and clear abstract of modifications. The outcome? Safer, maintainable, and cost-efficient apps. Flip the tables—so that you’re not crushed by technical debt, you’re crushing it. While you’re not caught cleansing up the previous, you clear the trail for actual innovation—and eventually make house to construct what’s subsequent.
- New Azure Web site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Agent: You construct—we’ve obtained 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 companies 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 gadgets are recognized, they’re logged as GitHub points so your staff can comply with by way of to shut the loop. With sooner restoration, fewer wake-up calls, and methods that know self-heal, your apps keep resilient—and your staff 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 are able to construct. And now, that energy is out there immediately in your GitHub workflow. With a brand new native integration, you may experiment with cutting-edge fashions from OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, Mistal, Cohere, and extra—proper from GitHub. Evaluate efficiency and value aspect by aspect, select the very best match in 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 selections keep safe, accountable, and aligned along with your staff’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 maintain issues operating—irrespective of the hour.
Yet one more factor that can change the sport
As GitHub Copilot has advanced in Visible Studio Code, AI has grow 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 improvement software. This displays our dedication to transparency, community-driven innovation, and giving builders a higher voice in shaping the way forward for AI-assisted improvement.
We imagine this new period of software program improvement—powered by brokers—will likely be as transformative because the shift to the cloud. It removes friction, reduces complexity, and rewrites the fee construction that has held groups again for many years. However possibly most significantly, it brings one thing again that we don’t speak about sufficient: pleasure. After we clear the backlog, offload the mundane, and deal with 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 Might 19 to 22, 2025, and see the most recent 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
