John Lokerse is a DevOps consultant sharing practical insights on Azure, Azure Bicep, GitHub Copilot, and AI-powered automation. Explore tutorials, experiments, and real-world solutions for modern DevOps and cloud infrastructure.
11 articles from this blog
Learn how to create and use Agent Skills in GitHub Copilot to automate Azure Bicep workflows, moving from manual tasks to efficient, repeatable processes.
A guide to building an AI-powered automated code review system for Azure DevOps pull requests using OpenAI models via Microsoft Foundry.
Learn how to use the experimental Azure Bicep Console for prototyping, validating code snippets, and testing GitHub Copilot-generated functions.
Learn how to create custom extensions for Azure Bicep using the experimental local-deploy feature to deploy beyond Azure resources.
A guide to creating custom chat modes in GitHub Copilot, with examples for Azure Bicep to define specialized AI agent roles.
Explores using the GitHub Copilot for Azure extension to generate and validate Azure Bicep code, detailing its agent and ask modes.
A technical guide on deploying Grok-3 from Azure AI Foundry and connecting it to GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code using the Bring Your Own Key feature.
Learn how to use the fail() function in Azure Bicep to conditionally stop deployments and validate parameter inputs.
Explains Azure Bicep's new optional module names feature, showing how to let Bicep auto-generate deployment names.
Learn to automate pull request descriptions in Azure DevOps using Azure OpenAI's GPT-4o to generate summaries of code changes.
Learn how to chain Azure Bicep deployments across subscriptions using outputs and stage dependencies in Azure Pipelines to overcome permission constraints.
