🚀 Build //localhost:Mumbai - The Builder’s Edition
Where Code Meets Reality. No Passive Listening. Just Pure Engineering.
Missed the live action at Microsoft Build? We are bringing the absolute best of it straight to Mumbai's core developer community. Forget standard recap decks and high-level marketing slides-this is a high-engagement, builder-first deep dive into the next wave of cloud architecture, container security, and autonomous engineering workflows.
Whether you are securing production clusters, optimizing your developer experience (DX), or looking to see real production-ready tech in action, this is your local hub to unpack, verify, and experiment.
📅 Event Schedule & Official Lineup:
🕐 10:00 AM | Agentic Shell Workflows: Microsoft Intelligent Terminal Powering GitHub Copilot CLI (40 mins) Speaker: Pratik Pathak (Microsoft Certified Trainer)
The Deep Dive: Discover how combining Microsoft Intelligent Terminal with GitHub Copilot CLI creates an agent-first shell that automates deployments, debugs errors in real-time, and drastically reduces context switching. Watch live demonstrations of context-aware debugging, instant infrastructure scaffolding, and seamless handoffs.
🕐 10:35 AM | From Local App to Cluster in Minutes with Headlamp and OSS (30 mins) Speaker: Sanket Bakshi (PM, Azure Kubernetes Service @ Microsoft)
The Deep Dive: Getting an existing app onto Kubernetes often breaks down at the last mile: writing Dockerfiles, generating manifests, and figuring out how everything fits together across environments. This demo shows a working path from a developer laptop to a production cluster using open-source tools.
What You'll See: We start in VS Code with the Containerization Assist MCP server to generate Dockerfiles and Kubernetes manifests based on real build feedback. Then we move into Headlamp, the CNCF Kubernetes UI, to inspect a local cluster, validate the deployment, and promote the same workload to AKS without switching tools.
🕐 11:20 AM | From Managed System Node Pools to AKS Automatic: The Future of Autonomous Kubernetes Operations (30 mins) Speaker: Sathpal Singh (Associate Director in Technology @ UBS | Grafana Champion | Cloud & AI Architect)
The Deep Dive: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) continues to simplify Kubernetes operations with innovations that reduce platform management overhead. With Managed System Node Pools, Azure takes responsibility for managing and updating critical system components, allowing platform teams to focus on application workloads instead of cluster maintenance.
What You'll See: Taking automation even further, AKS Automatic delivers an intelligent, hands-off Kubernetes experience by automating cluster operations, scaling, upgrades, and optimization. Explore how these capabilities improve reliability, reduce operational complexity, and accelerate your cloud-native journey while spending less time managing infrastructure.
🕐 11:50 AM | From Root to Rootless: Building Secure Container Workloads for Azure and AKS (50 mins) Speaker: Maninderjit Bindra (Principal Software Engineer @ Microsoft)
The Deep Dive: Containers feel safe, but dangerous defaults can still expose production workloads to serious risk. In this demo-driven session, we’ll look at common container security pitfalls across a series of focused scenarios-from apps running as root to overly broad runtime privileges and weak workload isolation.
What You'll Learn: Each demo highlights a specific hardening layer: non-root users, smaller and distroless images, rootless containers, sandboxed isolation, and Kubernetes controls on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Leave with a practical, Build-ready mental model for designing and deploying secure container workloads.
🕐 12:35 PM | Developer Tools & Frameworks: From CLI to PR: Automating the Path to Merged Code (50 mins) Speaker: Augustine Correa (Microsoft MVP & Founder, Hackerspace Mumbai)
Level: 🧠 400 (Expert)
The Deep Dive: Everyone talks about agents, but the real challenge is applying them to daily sprints. Moving beyond conversational chat, this session shows how GitHub Copilot functions as a true agentic partner in your workflow by live-coding a full cycle-from planning in the terminal to delegating work to the cloud and automating PR reviews.
What You'll Learn: No high-level abstractions here. We are breaking down the strict technical mechanics: context management, advanced features with Copilot CLI, and the specific architecture patterns that make agentic development workflows actually stick in production.
🕐 1:15 PM | Featured Workshop: From Zero to Deployed on Azure with AI Agents (50 mins) Format: Hands-on Lab (Bring Your Laptop!)
The Deep Dive: What happens when you let AI agents do the building? In this practical lab, you'll go from an empty terminal to a deployed app on Azure-with GitHub Copilot CLI and coding agents handling the scaffolding, coding, debugging, and deployment. You'll use the latest ecosystem tools to provision resources and wire up services through natural language, no portal required.
The Takeaway: This isn't a demo you watch. You'll walk out with a real, working development workflow you can take straight to your next project.
💡 Why Attend? Builder-First Culture: We believe passive consumption is passe. Come ready to interact, question architectural choices, and see live, unvarnished code execution.
Peer Networking: Connect directly with local tech leaders, open-source maintainers, Microsoft engineers, and fellow builders actively shipping to production.
From Vibes to Verification: Move past theoretical slides with actionable shell workflows, deep container security layers, and hands-on agentic workflows that actually deploy to the cloud.
🎟️ Access & Venue Requirements Space is strictly limited to ensure a high-quality networking and interactive experience.
Laptop Needed: Please bring your fully charged laptop if you plan to follow along during the hands-on lab at 1:15 PM.
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