Azure DevOps meets GitHub, the path to AI powered SDLC | BRK202
Dan Hellem and Dave Burnison demonstrate how Azure DevOps and GitHub integrate for hybrid DevOps workflows, including Azure Boards and Azure Pipelines connectivity, migration tooling, and AI-powered capabilities like Copilot assignment, Copilot code reviews, and automated multi-file fixes.
Overview
This Build 2026 breakout focuses on “better together” patterns between Azure DevOps and GitHub, with a demo-heavy walkthrough of hybrid setups that connect GitHub with Azure Boards and Azure Pipelines. The session also highlights newer AI-powered SDLC features in Azure DevOps and GitHub, framed as “Agentic DevOps”, plus notes on how Microsoft engineering teams adopted the approach.
Session chapters (from the video description)
Demonstrating Copilot assignment and automated multifile code fix
- Demo of Copilot assignment
- Demo of an automated multi-file code fix
Pull request status and integration of GitHub and Azure DevOps via CLI
- Pull request status visibility
- GitHub and Azure DevOps integration via CLI
Introduction of MCP server setup: local and remote instances
- MCP server setup
- Local instance
- Remote instance
Verification of successful migration in GitHub
- Verifying that a migration completed successfully in GitHub
Overview of new UX for migration management
- Walkthrough of updated migration management UX
Demo: enabling and managing Copilot code reviews
- Enabling Copilot code reviews
- Managing Copilot code review behavior
Enabling Auto Fix feature and description of automatic code repair pipeline
- Enabling an Auto Fix feature
- Description of an automatic code repair pipeline
Technical preview sign-up and wave-based rollout process
- Technical preview sign-up process
- Wave-based rollout approach
Announcement of new pay-per-minute billing for Apple Mac hosted agents
- New pay-per-minute billing model for Apple Mac hosted agents