John Lokerse | Microsoft MVP

Are you an Azure Bicep user or enthusiast? Then @rios.engineer and I have a great group for you: Azure Bicep users on LinkedIn. Here the community shares great insights on Azure Bicep and eveything around it. www.linkedin.com/groups/13004... #azure #mvpbuzz #azurebicep #infrastructureascode

🚀 New blog! Did you know you can add GitHub Copilot as a reviewer in an Azure DevOps pull request? In my latest blog, you will learn how it works, how to configure it, what the reviews and logs look like in practice, and how billing is handled. johnlokerse.dev/2026/10/06/e...

💪 Five new Azure Bicep linter rules are coming soon! These new linter rules allow you to enforce descriptions on params, vars, types, type properties and outputs. All five are off by default, so you opt in per rule in your bicepconfig.json. github.com/Azure/bicep/...

Built a canvas in the GitHub Copilot App that mirrors my iOS simulator. Fully interactive and live-streamed from the iOS simulator app. The benefit? I can test PWA behaviour on iOS without leaving the GitHub Copilot App!

Happy to be renewed as a Microsoft MVP for the third year in a row in both categories! 🥳 #MVPBuzz

🚀 New blog! Ever wondered what [*] means in Azure Bicep? I explain how it works with resource-derived types, resourceInput<>, and user-defined types to move from generic object/array params to strongly typed params. 🔗: johnlokerse.dev/2026/06/22/a... #azure #azurebicep #infrastructureascode

Pretty awesome - 'Hey, WorkIQ - see that Architecture document on my Desktop, use my Azure Pricing skill to determine running cost of the resources from the design doco' all from GitHub Copilot in VSCode.

Found a fun easter egg in the new GitHub Copilot app 🤖

Do you want to try out the new Visual Studio Code Agents app? - Install the latest version of the Visual Studio Code - Insider - Run the "Chat: Open Agents Application" - Start testing the new app #VSCode #GitHub #Copilot

Practical Use of this.exists() and this.existingResource() in Azure Bicep cloudadministrator.net/bicep-this-e... #Azure #AzureBicep #IaC #DevOps #AzureMySQL

Help shape the future of Agentic Deployments on Azure! Sign up for our customer research study and share your deployment insights with us here: aka.ms/AgenticDeplo...

Goodbye Seattle, it was a great week filled with lots of laughter! I'm happy to have been part of the MVP Summit again this year and loved all the sessions I attended. Thanks @microsoft.com 🚀 #MVPBuzz #MVPSummit #DevOps #AzureInfrastructureAsCode

If you want to get started with Microsoft Agent Framework (successor to Autogen and Semantic Kernel), I taught a 6-part livestream series walking through agents, tools, workflows, observability, and evals. You can rewatch the vids or grab slides from here: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurede...

Working on my side projects with GitHub Copilot above Greenland while on my way to Seattle for MVP Summit! 🤖

Underway to Redmond for the MVP Summit! 💪🏻Together with @johnlokerse.dev

The hype is real for MVP Summit! Flying to Seattle on Saturday for a full week of tech, people and @microsoft.com awesomeness 🚀 #MVPBuzz

Last week I have blogged: Azure Bicep Snapshots – Test and Validate Your Code and Deployments cloudadministrator.net/2026/02/18/a... #Azure #AzureBicep #AzureBicepSnapshots #AzureMonitor #LogAnalytics #LogAlerts #IaC #DevOps

Azure Bicep Snapshots – Test and Validate Your Code and Deployments cloudadministrator.net/2026/02/18/a... #Azure #AzureBicep #AzureBicepSnapshots #AzureMonitor #LogAnalytics #LogAlerts #IaC #DevOps

🚀 You can use the Azure Bicep MCP Server with GitHub Copilot CLI! 🔗 I’ve updated my repository with instructions on how to run the MCP server with the GitHub Copilot CLI: github.com/johnlokerse/...

What if I told you that you can export your Conditional Access policies to PowerPoint, providing a high-level overview of your security posture? youtu.be/ANZLw1jkX8s?...

Tip: In GitHub Copilot CLI, if you run copilot --resume without an ID, it opens an interactive session picker that shows the available sessions so that you can easily dive back into one of them

🎉 4 years of blogging and 43 blog posts later, I have reached a blog milestone of 100K views! Thank you to everyone for your support and for reading my blogs! 🚀 My content primarily focuses on Azure Bicep, Azure, DevOps, and GitHub (Copilot). Check out my content at: johnlokerse.dev

🚀 New blog! Agent Skills are a powerful way to automate manual and repeatable Azure Bicep workflows using GitHub Copilot. 🔗 Read the blog here: johnlokerse.dev/2026/02/02/a... #githubcopilot #azurebicep #infrastructureascode #azure #ai #MVPBuzz

Tonight, I will give a session at the Azure Bicep community call. It will cover an update on the Bicep console and how you can use it with GitHub Copilot agents! ⌚️ 9 AM PST / 6 PM CET / 5 PM BST 🔗 Sign up here: github.com/Azure/bicep/...

Looking back at my first blog post about GitHub Copilot (Feb 2023) and comparing it to today, the progression is insane. I already liked it back then, but now it’s on a completely different level and essential to my workflow. 🚀 🔗 The blog post: johnlokerse.dev/2023/02/27/t...

If you use Azure Bicep as your primary IaC language, you should definitely check out the Bicep Console feature. The @biceplang.bsky.social team upgraded it with piped input support in v0.40.2. Think about the agentic possibilities this enables for quick UDF validation using GitHub Copilot.

You don’t have to duplicate GitHub Copilot Skills across repos. GitHub Copilot can read Skills from ~/.copilot/skills/ folder instead of the .github folder in a repo Meaning: • One Skill setup • Works in every repo • Define once, use everywhere

Azure Bicep users 👋 What’s your reason for using @allowed([...]) instead of union types like 'Value' | 'OtherValue'? I found that union types also constrain an allowedValues list under the hood, and they look much cleaner to me. Additionally, union types can be shared using export / import.