One post tagged with "AI"

I wanted GitHub Copilot to do more than generate a bash script that calls az group create. I wanted to describe the local Azure stack in natural language and have the assistant provision it while I worked on the application code. Instead of tab-switching to a terminal, remembering the right parameter names, and sequencing five CLI commands in the right order, I wanted the infrastructure to be created directly from the chat, with connection strings returned in a form I could paste into the application configuration.

Topaz ships a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that makes this possible against the local emulator. The interesting part was not the tool call itself, but getting the container networking, DNS, and certificate setup right so those tool calls returned endpoints that were actually usable. This post covers how the MCP server works, why the Docker networking setup is non-trivial, and what the full setup looks like end to end.