GitHub Copilot Extensions
GitHub Copilot extensions allow partners and vendors to expand Copilot’s capabilities with vendor-specific tools and software knowledge and support. Developers can build, deploy, query documentation, examine resource status, access best practice code examples of vendor software and frameworks, and ask Copilot to take actions in external tools on users’ behalf, all without leaving the IDE, drastically improving the development flow. For example, with the GitHub Copilot Docker extension, developers can ask the Copilot to explain what containerisation is, how to create a docker file, to open a PR with the docker assets and to scan the code for vulnerabilities with Docker Scout.
References
- Rodriguez, M. (2024). Introducing GitHub Copilot Extensions: Unlocking unlimited possibilities with our ecosystem of partners. [online] The GitHub Blog. Available at: https://github.blog/2024-05-21-introducing-github-copilot-extensions/ [Accessed 2 Jul. 2024].