Series · 4 chapters · ~15 min total

CI/CD for Microsoft Foundry Agents

Chapter 1: Foundry agents have no artifact to promote between environments — the agent IS its configuration. The mental-model shift that makes agent CI/CD click, built on Eric Chansen's excellent foundry-agents-lifecycle reference repo.

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Part 1 · 4 min readThere Is No Export Button — Why Foundry Agents Need CI/CDChapter 1: Foundry agents have no artifact to promote between environments — the agent IS its configuration. The mental-model shift that makes agent CI/CD click, built on Eric Chansen's excellent foundry-agents-lifecycle reference repo.

Part 2 · 4 min readAnatomy of an Agent Lifecycle Repo — Bicep, Configs, and the Deploy ScriptChapter 2: a guided tour of the foundry-agents-lifecycle reference repo — infrastructure as Bicep, one agent definition with per-environment JSON configs, prompts as markdown, and the SDK deploy script that ties it together.

Part 3 · 3 min readThe GitHub Actions Flow — CI Checks, OIDC, and Evaluation GatesChapter 3: the full GitHub Actions lifecycle from the foundry-agents-lifecycle repo — PR validation, secret-free OIDC auth, environment promotion with approvals, and evaluations as the gate that keeps bad agents out of prod.

Part 4 · 4 min readThe Azure DevOps Flavor — and Making the Pattern YoursChapter 4: the same agent lifecycle in Azure DevOps — service connections with workload identity federation, ADO Environments, reusable stage templates — plus a practical checklist for adapting the foundry-agents-lifecycle pattern to your own agents.