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GitHub and Azure

The world’s leading developer platform, seamlessly integrated with Azure

Accelerate software development with Azure integrations

Deliver software faster and more securely by combining the practices and tools that have supported the growth of the largest developer community in the world with seamlessly integrated Azure products and GitHub services.
Code-to-cloud workflow automation with GitHub Actions for Azure
Built-in Microsoft Visual Studio integration for accelerated Developer Velocity

End-to-end application security with GitHub Advanced Security and Defender for DevOps

Native Azure integrations for faster deployment

Use your GitHub account to sign in to Azure

Simplify deployment from your repository with seamless access to the Azure portal and Azure DevOps using your GitHub account credentials.

Use GitHub to start an Azure free trial

Automate code-to-cloud workflows

Easily create code-to-cloud workflows in your repository to build, test, package, release, and deploy to Azure. GitHub Actions for Azure provides native support for deployments to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), the Web Apps feature of Azure App Service, Azure SQL Database, Azure Functions, and more.

Learn more about GitHub Actions for Azure

Plan smarter and track your work

Boost your team's productivity with boards, backlogs, and sprints for even the most complex projects. Simply connect your GitHub repo to Azure Boards and start linking commits and pull requests to work items tracked in Azure Boards, enabling you to develop while planning and tracking work.

Connect your GitHub repo to Azure Boards

Break down silos in your organization

Bring open-source code and components to your enterprise projects more securely. Establish innersource fundamentals with open source best practices and through collaboration with the open source community. Innersourcing helps accelerate enterprise software development and Developer Velocity. Flexibility, security, compliance, and deployment controls make it easy for your team to use GitHub Enterprise on Azure wherever you need it.

Learn more about GitHub Enterprise

Enforce a more secure workplace identity

Provision your existing Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) solution for GitHub group membership to provide a more secure workplace identity. Help your admins and developers focus on application development by reducing administrative time, improving auditability, and increasing user security with Azure AD synchronization capabilities.

How to configure GitHub and Azure AD

Manage Azure Policy as code

To increase Developer Velocity, shift from managing each policy in the Azure portal manually to a more manageable, collaborative, and repeatable process at enterprise scale. Export Azure policies to a GitHub repository in just a few clicks, then collaborate, track changes using version control, and deploy the policies using custom GitHub workflows.

Learn more about Azure Policy as code with GitHub Workflows

Reimagine developer productivity

Reduce ramp-up time on Git and be more productive with built-in GitHub extensions for Visual Studio. Create and publish repositories, manage pull requests on GitHub, and review source code right inside Visual Studio.

Purchase Visual Studio and GitHub Enterprise together at one low price

Identify, remediate, and prevent vulnerabilities

  • Integrate security into the developer workflow using code, secret, and dependency scanning with GitHub Advanced Security.
  • Give security teams full insight into the DevOps inventory across multi-pipeline environments in a central console with Microsoft Defender for DevOps.
  • Use code-to-cloud contextual insight to prioritize remediation of critical issues in code and assign ownership to developers in their familiar environment.

Get started with an Azure free account

Start free. Get $200 credit to use within 30 days. While you have your credit, get free amounts of many of our most popular services, plus free amounts of 40+ other services that are always free.

After your credit, move to pay as you go to keep building with the same free services. Pay only if you use more than your free monthly amounts.

After 12 months, you’ll keep getting 40+ always-free services—and still pay only for what you use beyond your free monthly amounts.

Trusted by companies around the world

Driving banking innovation through collaboration

Finanz Informatik (FI) combined code from generations of banking applications into a central financial management platform. Using GitHub, Azure, and Visual Studio Code, FI improved version management, collaboration, and tracking across the business.

Finanz Informatik

Agriculture solution provider boosts efficiency

With Azure, GitHub, and Visual Studio Code, TalentCloud realized a 50 percent efficiency increase in development. Using Visual Studio Code across all programming languages and collaborating through GitHub, TalentCloud now goes to market faster.

TalentCloud

Making the skies safer with Microsoft dev tools

GE Aviation used GitHub and Azure to develop FlightPulse, an app that puts analytics in the hands of more than 3,000 pilots to improve safety on every flight. GE built and deployed FlightPulse in months instead of years.

GE Aviation

Automating IT and processes using Azure DevOps

To accelerate its culture of cutting-edge technology innovation, Wipro HOLMES™ migrated to Azure DevOps with GitHub. With the changeover, the company accelerated its journey toward hyperscale, federated engineering, and cloud deployment.

WiPro

Reducing deployment time with GitHub

California Department of Technology (CDT) chose Azure DevOps with GitHub to help migrate from on-premises infrastructure to infrastructure as code. Now CDT turns out code, apps, and websites in a fraction of the time it had taken in the past.

California Department of Technology

Learn how to secure all your enterprise DevOps environments

Explore the ideal secure setup of Enterprise DevOps tools and practices. This e-book focuses specifically on hardening developer, DevOps platform, and application environments.

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