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Extending Azure VM Image Automation with an MCP Operations Layer

Prakhar-Sharma's avatar
Nov 04, 2026

Part 2 of the Azure VM image automation series: add a focused MCP server that lets engineers query Azure DevOps image-pipeline runs, check release evidence and safely queue builds from GitHub Copilot Chat in Visual Studio Code.

Introduction In Part 1, we built a repeatable Azure VM image pipeline with Packer, Azure DevOps and Azure Compute Gallery, then validated the published image before promotion. Read Part 1 This se...
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