Azure Daily News for Thursday, Sep 25 2025
Service Updates
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General News
- Upcoming deprecation of gh-copilot CLI extension
We’re announcing the scheduled deprecation of the GitHub Copilot in the CLI extension for GitHub CLI (i.e., gh-copilot) which will stop working on October 25, 2025. This extension’s capabilities are… The post Upcoming deprecation of gh-copilot CLI extension appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Source: GitHub Copilot Feed - GitHub Copilot CLI is now in public preview
GitHub Copilot CLI is now in public preview We’re bringing the power of GitHub Copilot coding agent directly to your terminal. With GitHub Copilot CLI, you can work locally and… The post GitHub Copilot CLI is now in public preview appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Source: GitHub Copilot Feed - CycleCloud + Hammerspace
Abstract The theme of this blog is “Simplicity”. Today’s HPC user has an overabundance of choices when it comes to HPC Schedulers, clouds, infrastructure in those clouds, and data management solutions. Let's simplify it! Using CycleCloud as the nucleus, my intent is to show how simple it is to deploy a Slurm cluster on the Hammerspace data platform while using a standard NFS protocol. And...
Source: Azure High Performance Computing (HPC) Blog - AI Azure Landing Zone: Shared Capabilities and Models to Enable AI as a Platform
This architecture diagram illustrates a Microsoft Azure AI Landing Zone Pattern — a scalable, secure, and well-governed framework for deploying AI workloads across multiple subscriptions in an enterprise environment. Let's walk through it end-to-end, breaking down each section, the flow, and key Azure services involved. 🧭 Overview: The architecture is split into 4 major landing...
Source: Azure Architecture Blog - Access Governance Blueprint for AI Landing Zone
Governance Principles Least Privilege: Grant only the permissions required for each role. Segregation of Duties (SoD): Separate responsibilities for build, deploy, operate, and secure. Environment Guardrails: Dev → open for experimentation. Nonprod → controlled integration and validation. Prod → no human write, CI/CD only, with Just-in-Time (PIM) access for...
Source: Azure Architecture Blog - Copilot coding agent is now generally available
Copilot coding agent, our asynchronous, autonomous developer agent, is now generally available for all paid Copilot subscribers. Delegate a task to Copilot, and Copilot will open a draft pull request… The post Copilot coding agent is now generally available appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Source: GitHub Copilot Feed - Simplify Image Signing and Verification with Notary Project and Trusted Signing (Public Preview)
Supply chain security has become one of the most pressing challenges for modern cloud-native applications. Every container image, Helm chart, SBOM, or AI model that flows through your CI/CD pipeline carries risk if its integrity or authenticity cannot be guaranteed. Attackers may attempt to tamper with artifacts, replace trusted images with malicious ones, or inject unverified base images...
Source: Apps on Azure Blog - OpenAI Agent SDK Integration with Azure Durable Functions
Picture this: Your agent authored with the OpenAI Agent SDK is halfway through analyzing 10,000 customer reviews when it hits a rate limit and dies. All that progress? Gone. Your multi-agent workflow that took 30 minutes to orchestrate? Back to square one because of a rate limit throttle. If you've deployed AI agents in production, you probably know this frustration first-hand. Today, we're...
Source: Apps on Azure Blog - It's time to secure your MCP servers. Here's how.
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) provides a powerful, standardized way for LLMs to interact with external tools. But as soon as you move from a local demo to a real-world application, a critical question arises: How do you secure it? Exposing an MCP server without security is like leaving the front door of your house wide open. Anyone could walk in and use your tools, access your data, or...
Source: Azure Developer Community Blog - Talk to your data: PostgreSQL gets a voice in VS Code
As product roadmaps accelerate to meet new business needs, developer teams are struggling to maintain productivity, some even reporting that they need to use six or more tools to do their job. To address this, Microsoft has released an improved PostgreSQL extension to aid developers working with PostgreSQL in Visual Studio (VS) Code streamline their workflows and increase...
Source: Azure Developer Community Blog
New Media
New Videos
- Azure Accelerated Connections: Explained & Network Performance #shorts
Source: IT Ops Talk YouTube Channel, Length: 00:01:39 - Building AI agents with LangChain4j's new "Agentic" module
Source: Microsoft for Java Developers, Length: 00:21:54 - How to Get Safe Internet Access at Home!
Source: Azure Academy, Length: 00:00:26 - Speed Production of Intel. Apps & Agents w/ AI-Ready DB for PostgreSQL
Source: Microsoft Azure Developers YouTube Channel, Length: 00:21:00