Agentic DevOps
Automate, optimize, and accelerate the entire software lifecycle with agentic DevOps.
OVERVIEW
Automate, optimize, and accelerate the entire software lifecycle with agents
- Stay in the flow when you work side by side with intelligent agents that generate code, author tests, write documentation, summarize pull requests, and run multistep workflows directly in your integrated development environment (IDE) or terminal.
- Get accurate, relevant recommendations that are grounded in your project’s structure, patterns, dependencies, architectural conventions, team policies, and active files—each aligned with the way you build.
- Define custom instructions, skills, and settings to guide agents on focused tasks—acting as experts in the work you delegate.
- Start with clear intent as you work with agents to create, refine, and validate step-by-step plans and specifications in your IDE—giving you a solid blueprint to build with.
- Stay focused on higher-value thinking by assigning scoped, multistep tasks to agents, such as generating code, completing pull requests, and iterating on your comments.
- Keep code more maintainable and apps high quality by using agents to create and scale tests, surface edge cases, find vulnerabilities, and fix issues.
- Leverage agents skilled in Azure to set up pipelines, clear blockers, and guide your app safely from code to cloud.
- Maximize reliability and security with agents that monitor applications, detect issues, diagnose root causes, and protect your production environments.
- Build, optimize, and govern AI apps and agents with a unified, interoperable AI platform.
- Supercharge AI app and agent development with cloud‑native compute, orchestration, and integration services that speed ideas into production.
- Protect your applications and agents with automated threat detection, vulnerability insights, and continuous hardening across cloud environments.
PRODUCTS AND CAPABILITIES
The AI-powered software development lifecycle
Unlock transformative new workflows for the entire development team with agents infused across the software lifecycle.
Code development
Streamline code development—collaborate with agents to plan work, craft code, and run context‑aware reviews in flow.
GitHub Copilot
Command your craft with an AI accelerator for every workflow, from the editor to the enterprise.
Visual Studio Code
Get a unified agent experience with the power of GitHub Copilot directly in your code editor.
GitHub Copilot command-line interface (CLI)
Run a GitHub-native agent in your terminal that works directly with your issues and pull requests, executes across a fleet of parallelized subagents, and carries you from plan to merged code.
Visual Studio
Move faster, think bigger, and build with confidence with GitHub Copilot integrated deeply into your IDE.
GitHub Enterprise
Seamlessly build, scale, deliver, and deploy secure software with AI at the core of your DevOps.
Azure DevOps
Plan smarter, collaborate better, and ship faster with a set of modern developer services.
App modernization
Modernize apps with AI agents that analyze code, generate upgrade paths, refactor legacy patterns, and streamline migrations across your toolchain.
GitHub Copilot app modernization
Assess, upgrade, migrate, and modernize your applications in days, not months.
Visual Studio
Move faster, think bigger, and build with confidence with GitHub Copilot integrated deeply into your IDE.
Visual Studio Code
Get a unified agent experience with GitHub Copilot—directly in your code editor.
GitHub Enterprise
Seamlessly build, scale, deliver, and deploy secure software with AI at the core of your DevOps.
Azure DevOps
Plan smarter, collaborate better, and ship faster with a set of modern developer services.
Testing
Automate testing with AI agents that can help author tests, validate behavior, generate synthetic data, and run broad test suites at scale.
GitHub Copilot
Your AI accelerator for every workflow, from the editor to the enterprise.
Azure Test Plans
Test and ship with confidence using manual and exploratory testing tools.
GitHub Enterprise
Seamlessly build, scale, deliver, and deploy secure software with AI at the core of your DevOps.
Azure DevOps
Plan smarter, collaborate better, and ship faster with a set of modern developer services.
Azure App Testing
Author, execute, and troubleshoot load tests using VS Code extensions with GitHub Copilot and Azure App Testing.
Azure Chaos Studio
Improve application resilience by introducing faults and simulating chaos or outages.
Code quality
Elevate code quality with AI agents—analyze code, surface and fix issues, enforce standards, and keep code maintainable.
GitHub Enterprise
Seamlessly build, scale, deliver, and deploy secure software with AI at the core of your DevOps.
Azure DevOps
Plan smarter, collaborate better, and ship faster with a set of modern developer services.
GitHub Copilot code review
Get help from Copilot to deliver faster reviews and higher code quality right at the Pull Request level.
GitHub Code Quality
Get more maintainable, reliable code and test coverage across every enterprise repository with native code-quality controls directly in GitHub.
GitHub Advanced Security
Accelerate the delivery of secure software with proven application security testing.
Deployment
Automate deployment using AI agents with deep Azure knowledge that can orchestrate workflows, optimize configurations, and deliver apps anywhere.
GitHub Copilot for Azure
Get help using and managing your Azure services from an AI-powered Azure expert and assign Azure-related tasks directly to Copilot.
Azure MCP Server
Manage your Azure resources, deploy applications, and query cloud services directly from your development environment.
Azure API management
Unify, govern, and secure your APIs across cloud and on-premises environments.
Power Automate
Quickly automate intelligent workflow solutions.
GitHub Enterprise
Seamlessly build, scale, deliver, and deploy secure software with AI at the core of your DevOps.
Azure DevOps
Plan smarter, collaborate better, and ship faster with a set of modern developer services.
Operations and observability
Optimize operations with AI agents that monitor systems, detect anomalies, surface insights, and unify observability across Azure.
Azure Copilot
Augment cloud operations and management with agentic AI.
Azure SRE Agent
Automate repetitive tasks and improve incident response using an autonomous incident mitigation and resource optimization agent with intelligent precision.
Azure Managed Grafana
Deploy Grafana dashboards as a fully managed Azure service.
Power BI
Turn unrelated data sources into coherent, visually immersive, and interactive insights.
Azure Monitor
Gain full visibility into your applications, infrastructure, and network.
Security
Strengthen security with AI agents that detect risks, enforce policies, surface vulnerabilities, and safeguard environments end to end.
Microsoft Entra
Secure access for workforce, workload, and customer identities to multicloud and on-premises resources.
Azure Policy
Achieve real-time cloud compliance at scale with consistent resource governance.
Microsoft Sentinel
Confidently secure your multicloud, multiple platform environment with an AI-powered solution.
GitHub Advanced Security
Accelerate the delivery of secure software with proven application security testing.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Protect your hybrid and multicloud environments with unified security across the full application lifecycle, from code to runtime.
GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps
Empower DevSecOps teams to prioritize innovation and enhance developer security without sacrificing productivity.
Build AI applications
Build AI applications and agents with AI tools that scaffold projects, integrate models, and streamline end-to-end development across your toolchain.
AI Toolkit for Visual Studio Code
Explore models and build, refine, and launch production-ready agents all from Visual Studio Code.
Microsoft Foundry
Build faster and smarter on a unified AI platform while providing organizations with fleetwide security and governance in a unified portal.
Visual Studio Code
Get a unified agent experience with GitHub Copilot—directly in your code editor.
GitHub Copilot SDK
Build AI applications and agents with the same Copilot agentic core that powers GitHub Copilot command-line interface (CLI).
GitHub Enterprise
Seamlessly build, scale, deliver, and deploy secure software with AI at the core of your DevOps.
Azure DevOps
Plan smarter, collaborate better, and ship faster with a set of modern developer services.
Agentic impact
The impact of agentic DevOps at Microsoft
Teams across Microsoft are already realizing the transformative value of agentic DevOps
Research Insights
Drive innovation in DevOps
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Microsoft is recognized in the 2025 Forrester Wave™ DevOps Platforms report1
Microsoft was ranked highest in both the current offering and strategy categories. -
GitHub is named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Code Assistants2
GitHub was positioned highest in ability to execute and furthest in completeness of vision. -
GitHub named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape Worldwide AI Coding and Software Engineering Technologies 20253
CUSTOMER STORIES
Read how customers are innovating with DevOps
PARTNER SOLUTIONS
Explore Microsoft partner solutions
RESOURCES
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
- As AI continues to transform the world around us, development and operations (DevOps) teams have the unique opportunity to not only benefit from advancements in AI and agents, but also help shape the future of this cutting-edge technology. Agentic DevOps represents the next evolution in DevOps, in which AI-powered agents operate as members of the development and operations teams, helping automate, optimize, and accelerate every stage of the software lifecycle. Learn more.
- GitHub Copilot is an AI coding assistant that helps developers write code faster with less effort. It provides contextual assistance, offering coding suggestions as developers type, which could be anything from a simple line completion to a whole new block of code. This helps developers focus more on problem-solving, collaboration, and innovation. Integrated with leading editors and natively built into GitHub, it’s the most widely adopted AI developer tool, enhancing job satisfaction and productivity.
- GitHub Copilot can be used with any DevOps platform. However, many of the newest agentic capabilities—like the coding agent—require GitHub repositories. Contact Sales to learn more.
- Yes, existing Azure DevOps customers can use GitHub Copilot, but Copilot’s agentic capabilities are most impactful when code is hosted on GitHub, where they are deeply integrated into the DevOps workflow. Azure DevOps customers can migrate their workloads to GitHub to take advantage of the latest advancements in AI, while continuing to use tried-and-true services like Azure Boards and Azure Pipelines. Learn more.
- No, Azure SRE Agent is a standalone Azure service that does not require GitHub or GitHub Copilot. However, Azure SRE Agent can connect to your code repositories in Azure DevOps or GitHub, and connecting to GitHub does require a paid GitHub Copilot plan.
- Yes, the GitHub Copilot app modernization agent is only available in paid GitHub Copilot plans. Currently, the app modernization only supports Java and .NET applications, although we are continuing to expand its features and capabilities.
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- [1]The Forrester Wave™: DevOps Platforms, Q2 2025, Andrew Cornwall with Chris Gardner, Emily Doherty, and Kara Hartig, June 2, 2025.
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