Browse DevOps Videos (161)

John Savill shares a quick Azure Weekly Update covering recent platform changes and previews, including VM ephemeral OS disk caching, Azure Functions Flex Consumption custom TLS, user delegation SAS updates, AZD extension framework work, Azure Load Testing Playwright expansion, and new Copilot-related items.

Visual Studio Code shows how to connect your own Azure-hosted AI models to GitHub Copilot in VS Code using Bring Your Own Key (BYOK), so teams can control which models are available in Copilot and pick the right model for different coding tasks.

GitHub spotlights the open source project DocumentDB as part of its Open Source Friday series, focusing on the project and its place in the broader open source ecosystem.

GitHub shows how to use the new attach flag in the GitHub CLI to add images directly to pull requests and issues, making it easier to share screenshots and other visual context during reviews and issue triage.

Microsoft Developer demonstrates how to build modern Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers in VS Code, moving beyond simple local tool calls to more production-ready agent integrations with notifications, elicitation, stateless HTTP, and plugin-based distribution.

GitHub demonstrates how to use the GitHub CLI’s new --attach flag to upload screenshots and videos directly to issues, pull requests, and comments. The walkthrough shows an automated Playwright-based workflow that captures failure evidence and attaches before-and-after media to support bug reports and PR reviews.

Visual Studio Code highlights how to get a new set of file icons in VS Code quickly, pointing viewers to the Catppuccin icon theme link for a fast editor refresh.

GitHub highlights research by Louis Abraham on how AI tools are influencing the language developers use in GitHub pull request descriptions, based on analysis of more than 460,000 PR descriptions and the rise of distinctive AI-associated terms and punctuation patterns.

Maddy Montaquila explains how a “Aspire-ified” .NET app can give a coding agent more context and control, including a single command to start containers, processes, and the debugger, plus the ability to manage resources and view logs from one place.

Andrea Griffiths and Meagan Cojocar demonstrate GitHub Copilot Cloud Agent running inside Slack and Microsoft Teams, showing how teams can create issues, review diffs, preview HTML, and analyze repository data directly from chat, plus what admins need to enable it safely in enterprise environments.

Cameron Tomisser shares a weekly Microsoft developer news roundup covering the Azure Developer CLI extension framework reaching GA, new CI/CD options to connect to Azure Cosmos DB without storing secrets, and progress on making agent security more production-ready.

GitHub shows how to attach images and videos to pull requests, issue comments, and issues directly from the terminal using the GitHub CLI. It highlights the new --attach flag, including how to provide a file path plus alt text so screenshots and recordings stay accessible in GitHub discussions.

Visual Studio Code highlights Emmet, a built-in VS Code feature that speeds up writing HTML (and related markup) using short abbreviations and expansions.

GitHub shares a quick “The Download” roundup covering a new GitHub CLI capability for attaching images and videos to pull requests, plus several AI-related updates including local coding-agent models, large-scale LLM releases, and benchmarks and analyses focused on AI code review and PR-writing language.

Andrea Griffiths talks with Angela Wen about making a first open-source contribution on GitHub, from finding a good first issue through opening a draft pull request and getting CI checks green. They also cover practical expectations when working with maintainers and what “using Copilot responsibly” looks like in a real PR workflow.

Fokko at Work recaps what’s new across Visual Studio Code 1.133–1.136 with a focus on GitHub Copilot features, showing practical demos like Agent Plugins support, prompt UX improvements, usage details per chat turn, and agent merge workflows.

Stefan Kingham’s documentary traces how Visual Studio Code evolved from early web-based editor experiments into a widely used, open-source developer tool, covering key technical and product shifts like Electron, extensions, LSP, remote development, and the editor’s adaptation to the AI era including GitHub Copilot.

dotnet covers the production-readiness pieces for an AI agent, focusing on observability with OpenTelemetry, governance and data protection with Microsoft Purview, and quality evaluation as the SDK evolves, then shows how to deploy the agent to Foundry Hosted Agents and maintain it with a refresh-prompt workflow.

Visual Studio Code shows how to use the Command Palette to navigate faster in VS Code, including opening recent files, jumping to symbols in the current file, grouping symbols by type, and searching for symbols across the entire workspace.

James Montemagno introduces VS Code agent plugins and how they package and share AI customizations—like skills, MCP servers, and custom agents—so teams can reuse the same setup across projects and environments.

GitHub hosts a multi-hour Copilot Day live session covering new releases, hands-on demos, and practical workflows, including how Copilot works across GitHub, the CLI, and VS Code, plus a live-coding segment with Burke Holland, Pierce Boggan, and guests.

GitHub introduces a GitHub CLI update that lets developers attach local images or videos to issues, pull requests, and comments using a repeatable --attach flag, making it easier to share visual context directly in GitHub discussions.

Microsoft Developer presents a student-focused course that uses the GitHub Copilot app to turn a resume into a live portfolio site, while teaching Git fundamentals, GitHub Pages deployment, Copilot modes, context/tokens, MCP servers, skills, and bring-your-own-model with Azure AI Foundry.

Jonah Andersson explains how to take AI agents from prototype to production by building MCP servers on Azure Functions, using .NET to expose tools that agents can discover and invoke at runtime. The session uses a DevOps CI/CD scenario where agents detect deployment issues, diagnose failures, and create rollback PRs in Azure DevOps.

Authorised Territory shows how to use Git worktrees in the Visual Studio 2026 August update to pause half-finished work without stashing, by creating a separate working directory tied to a new branch while keeping current changes intact.

Amanda Silver reflects on how Visual Studio Code grew from an open source editor into a platform shaped by its extension ecosystem, and how GitHub Copilot changed expectations for developer tools by bringing AI-powered coding assistance into everyday workflows.

Yo-Lei Chen demonstrates how to build a full-stack app around SQL Server using GitHub Copilot in VS Code, from database schema design and query assistance through to generating backend code and wiring up REST or GraphQL endpoints.

Peter Steinberger and the OpenClaw maintainers discuss how they scaled a viral open source project on GitHub, including handling large volumes of pull requests, setting up governance, and meeting enterprise security expectations while keeping the project model-neutral.

Kayla Cinnamon recaps the Windows developer announcements from Build 2026, including a new Intelligent Terminal aimed at agent workflows, a WSL-based native container solution, core command-line utilities coming to Windows, and WinGet configuration for one-pass dev machine setup.

Microsoft Developer walks through day-to-day database change workflows using SQL projects in VS Code, focusing on safer refactoring, catching errors early with IntelliSense, and generating publish scripts and profiles to deploy schema changes across environments.

Visual Studio Code shows how to use VS Code’s Test Explorer to quickly filter tests, locate a failing test from CI, debug the failure, inspect results, and rerun the test without leaving the editor.

Kayla Cinnamon walks through VS Code’s updated Markdown editing workflow, including side-by-side preview with live updates and a new editor that lets you edit directly in the preview while the Markdown syntax updates in real time. She also shows handing Markdown cleanup to an agent using an isolated worktree.

GitHub interviews the maintainers of the Zephyr Project as part of Open Source Friday, focusing on what Zephyr is and why it’s positioned as a scalable, optimized, and secure RTOS across multiple hardware architectures.

Microsoft Developer presents a lightning talk that rapid-fires practical GitHub capabilities teams often overlook, spanning collaboration features and modern delivery workflows, plus newer AI and agentic workflow concepts you can apply in day-to-day engineering work.

Microsoft Developer presents an end-to-end reference architecture for building an enterprise AI platform on Azure, spanning ingestion through embeddings and vector search to API exposure and partner integrations, with practical patterns for scaling, observability, and secure operations across serverless and container runtimes.

Cassidy Williams highlights GitHub’s “Tiny Wins” team and how they reduce day-to-day friction for maintainers by shipping small platform improvements, including performance tweaks and making contributing guidelines easier to find directly in a repository.

GitHub shares a changelog update for OAuth apps, covering refresh tokens, access token lifetimes, and support for multiple callback URLs. It also highlights configuration details like the offline_access scope and a security audit tip for legacy wildcard redirect URI matching.

Visual Studio Code shares a quick tip on using GitHub Copilot in VS Code to generate a correct launch.json by analyzing package.json, so you can run and debug scripts using the built-in debugger without manually remembering configuration syntax.

Cameron Hamilton joins GitHub’s Rubber Duck Thursday to walk through how he built HALIE, his personal AI agent, including the key product decisions he made and what he learned from shipping it.

Kaleb Cole and Kurt Emrich show how to turn a repeated content-publishing routine into reusable GitHub Copilot workflows using agent skills, personas, plugins, and a marketplace, including drafting from notes, reviewing with an agent, converting to HTML, and publishing to GitHub.