Public Preview: Introducing a Guided Copilot Experience for Building Azure Apps in VS Code

Today we're previewing a new way to build cloud apps with GitHub Copilot in VS Code: a guided Copilot experience that takes you from idea to a deployed Azure app through a structured, predictable workflow instead of a free-form chat session that may or may not land where you need it to.

The problem: Copilot is powerful, but unpredictable

Ask Copilot to "build me a Node.js API on Azure Functions with a Postgres database" today, and you might get a working project, or you might not. Sometimes Copilot scaffolds the app but skips infrastructure. Sometimes it generates a deployment script that fails halfway through. Sometimes it forgets what you were building three prompts later.

The underlying model is capable. The problem is the shape of the experience: an open-ended chat with no checkpoints, no guardrails, and no consistent path from "I have an idea" to "it's running in Azure."

Learn more:

• Read the blog
• Install the Azure Tools extension for VS Code