We are thrilled to announce that the Microsoft Foundry Toolkit for VS Code, formerly AI Toolkit, is now Generally Available (GA)! From first model prompt to production‑grade AI agents, Foundry Tool...

Co-Authored by Avneesh Kaushik Why Trust Matters for AI Agents Unlike static ML models, AI agents call tools and APIs, retrieve enterprise data, generate dynamic outputs, and can act autonomously...

The Problem Every team has those repetitive, multi-step workflows that eat up time: Running a sequence of CLI commands, parsing output, and generating a report Querying multiple APIs, correla...

Introduction For over a decade, CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment) has been the backbone of modern software engineering. It helped teams move from manual, error-prone deployme...

Architecture High-level flow The solution uses a User-Assigned Managed Identity (UAMI) federated to a Kubernetes Service Account via AKS OIDC—then ESO uses that identity to read secrets from Key ...

The "IQ Layer": Microsoft’s Blueprint for the Agentic Enterprise Modern enterprises have experimented with artificial intelligence for years, yet many deployments have struggled to move beyond basi...

What You'll Learn Why traditional API design struggles when questions span multiple data sources, and how function-calling solves this. How the iterative tool-use loop works — the model plans, ...

If you are learning how to get an application from your machine into Azure without stitching together every deployment step by hand, Azure Developer CLI, usually shortened to  azd , is one of the mos...

The promise and the gap Your organization has invested in an AI agent. You ask it: "Prepare a summary of Q3 revenue by region, including year-over-year trends and top product lines." The agent fi...

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) gives AI agents a standard way to call external tools, but things get more complicated when those tools need to know who the user is. In this post, I’ll show how to b...