One prompt. Two blank VMs. A live app in minutes.

Watch an AI agent deploy a full-stack application to RHEL 10 on Azure — live on stage, no scripts, no safety net.

A single natural-language prompt. GitHub Copilot SSHs into two fresh RHEL 10 VMs and does everything — PostgreSQL, nginx, SELinux, firewalld, TLS — while you watch.

Then the audience plays the app. Then we break it. Then we ask Copilot to fix it.

What could possibly go wrong?

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Karl Abbott Product Manager, Microsoft
16 years at Red Hat. Now at Microsoft. Still arguing with SELinux.

Modern RHEL Operations on Azure: An Agentic Copilot‑Driven Approach

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Tuesday, May 12 • 3:30 – 4:10 PM EDT
Room B404, Level 4

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Live from zero: GitHub Copilot deploys a full-stack app to RHEL 10 on Azure — networking, PostgreSQL, SELinux, firewalld, TLS — no pre-baked scripts, no do-overs

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Play along: The app is Conference Bingo. Pull out your phone, spot things like "SELinux is mentioned" and "A live demo actually works", and try to win

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Observability in minutes: Ansible wires up Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Managed Grafana — built with Copilot, codified for repeatability

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Then we break it: Something goes wrong in production. We ask Copilot to figure out why. Live. In front of everyone.

A taste of what's on the card

SELinux is mentioned

Copilot writes a bash script

A live demo actually works

Someone says "agentic"

firewall-cmd appears

Copilot fixes its own mistake

dnf install something

systemctl restart

The speaker checks his phone