Accelerate innovation by migrating your repositories from Azure DevOps to GitHub

May 20, 2025 // 4 min read

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GitHub’s agentic AI is ready for Azure DevOps users—migrate your repos, keep familiar tools, and unlock GitHub Copilot’s coding agents.

Published via GitHub Executive Insights | Authored by Todd Manion

The landscape of software development is undergoing a fundamental transformation. While many platforms offer AI tools, GitHub is leading a paradigm shift where developers and AI agents work together in ways that fundamentally reimagine the development process. And we’re weaving these agentic innovations deeply into the GitHub ecosystem and software development lifecycle—empowering development teams to ship faster with higher quality.

Today, many customers use both GitHub and Azure DevOps. As such, we’ve long been invested in making both work better together, including seamless integrations between GitHub and Azure Boards and Pipelines. But one question I get on a regular basis is “When should Azure DevOps customers start moving to GitHub and advance their AI journey?”

The answer is clear: Now is the moment to accelerate your innovation journey by migrating your repositories to GitHub. This preserves your existing Azure Boards and Pipelines investments and unlocks the transformative power of agentic AI, advanced security, and a thriving developer ecosystem shaping the future of software.

Start your journey today and see why so many teams have already migrated.

Transforming DevOps with AI agents

GitHub has become the hub for agentic AI innovation in software development. As highlighted at Microsoft Build, we unveiled GitHub Copilot’s new coding agent, an innovation that tackles complex tasks like feature implementation, bug fixes, refactoring, and test generation in secure, customizable environments. With this change, developers are experiencing a fundamentally different way of building software—one where AI acts as a true collaborator on your development teams that have meaningful business impact:

  • Faster time-to-market through AI-accelerated development cycles
  • Higher-quality code with AI-assisted testing and security scanning
  • Greater innovation capacity by freeing developers from routine tasks
  • Improved talent retention through access to cutting-edge development tools

Changes made by GitHub Copilot coding agent are transparently documented, auditable, and gated by human approval, ensuring both velocity and governance. Copilot now extends deeper into the development lifecycle, freeing your teams to “stay in the flow” on the creative, complex, and high-impact work that truly moves your business forward. GitHub Copilot coding agent These agentic innovations are the most powerful when your code lives in GitHub—where they’re deeply integrated into the DevOps experience. From code suggestions to intelligent coding agents, these capabilities are designed to work in harmony with your repositories, helping your teams move faster, commit with greater confidence, and direct their talents toward solving your highest-value business problems. Migrating your repositories today ensures your teams can harness this new wave of agentic innovation.

Connecting what works to what’s next

You shouldn’t have to choose between innovation and operational continuity. With your repositories in GitHub Enterprise Cloud, you gain the flexibility to adopt the latest agentic development innovations while maintaining strategic control over your workflows, tools, and data.

Whether you’re tracking work in Azure Boards or deploying with Azure Pipelines, our seamless integration ensures your teams can continue their work without disruption—while leveraging GitHub's advancements in source code management and AI-powered development tools. This helps ensure your migration delivers immediate value without disruption to your workflows.

Plus, we understand that enterprise customers have specific requirements around governance, compliance, and workflow integration. That's why GitHub Enterprise Cloud is designed to provide both cutting-edge innovation and enterprise-grade control. With data residency options across the EU, Australia, and now most recently within the US, you maintain complete control over where your most important piece of data—your code—lives. As part of your trial, you can explore a data resident GitHub Enterprise Cloud instance—unlocking new possibilities for secure, compliant development at scale. data residency This hybrid approach gives your organization the flexibility to realize the benefits of GitHub's innovations while still using the tracking and workflows you've invested in with Azure DevOps—allowing you to scale development confidently and on your terms.

Migrating from Azure DevOps repos to GitHub repos

GitHub is committed to helping Azure DevOps customers have a great migration experience. Many leading organizations are already realizing the value of GitHub—whether by fully migrating their repositories from Azure DevOps or by integrating GitHub with their Azure DevOps workflows. Our comprehensive migration tools, expert services, and experienced partner network have successfully guided hundreds of thousands of migrations with minimal disruption. The proven migration path is ready for you today, with enterprises across industries, including EY, Vodafone, and many more, realizing the value of the GitHub platform. better together

Move to GitHub Enterprise with confidence, backed by comprehensive resources, tools and support:

Together, these resources ensure your migration to GitHub is smooth, secure, and sets your organization up for long-term success.

Learning more about the journey

First, watch our Build breakout session, "Making Azure DevOps and GitHub Greater Than the Sum of Their Parts" where you can learn how to use GitHub repositories, Copilot, GitHub Codespaces, and GitHub Code Security to enhance developer productivity, while maintaining continuity with your existing Azure Boards, Pipelines, and Test Plans for enterprise-scale development.

Then, check out this blog from our friends at Microsoft that dives deeper into the benefits of migrating your repositories to GitHub.

Finally, start your journey with GitHub Enterprise Cloud or contact us today to get started

Building forward, together

As the pace of innovation in software development continues to accelerate, having your repositories in GitHub positions your organization is a strategic imperative that enables your organization to immediately capitalize on agentic AI advances and tap into the innovation of the world’s largest developer ecosystem. We're committed to making this journey seamless and straightforward—our team stands ready to ensure your success. We are excited to see what you'll build with these powerful new capabilities.

Let’s build from here.

Todd

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