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?

No roadmap slides. No platform pitch. Just a terminal and a conversation.

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

Microsoft for Red Hat Teams: Modern RHEL Operations on Azure with Copilot

View session at Red Hat Summit 2026 →

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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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Live troubleshooting: When things go sideways in production, can Copilot figure out why? We'll find out.

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