Building an MCP Server with Azure Functions: Extending GitHub Copilot in the Cloud
Introduction I’ve been experimenting with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for a while now, and it’s changed how I think about extending AI assistants like GitHub Copilot. Then, Microsoft recently released a stable version of the new MCP trigger for Azure Functions. It made building a cloud-native, serverless MCP server incredibly straightforward. As soon as I saw it, I had an idea: what if I could use this to build a simple, cloud-based tool to save and retrieve notes directly from Copilot? ...