Self-service provisioning of platform capabilities with a chat - GitHub Copilot and MCP {Workshop} @ OpenSlava 2025

Slides from my workshop at OpenSlava 2025 (October 15th) titled "Self-service provisioning of platform capabilities with a chat - GitHub Copilot and MCP".
The code, including the step-by-step guidance is available here: https://github.com/deors/workshop-mcp-servers

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1. Self-service provisioning of platform capabilities with a chat: GitHub Copilot and MCP [Workshop] OpenSlava 15/10/2025
3. Associate Director – Software Engineering – Accenture Iberia Lead – DevOps & Platform Engineering Enterprise & Systems Architecture – Advanced Technology Center Java Global Community of Practice Java Champion Very active with open source and technology communities: Co-organizer – MálagaJUG / BoquerónSec Co-organizer – OpenSouthCode / OpenSouthKids Codemotion Ambassador @deors.bsky.social in/deors Jorge Hidalgo Copyright © 2025 Jorge Hidalgo – CC BY 4.0 3
4. MCP in a nutshell
5. MCP in a nutshell Created by Anthropic Open-source standard for connecting AI applications to external systems (a.k.a. tools) https://modelcontextprotocol.io/
6. MCP in a nutshell MCP Client 1 MCP Client 3 MCP Client 2 MCP Server A MCP Server B MCP Server C Tool ⍺ Tool β Tool ɣ Tool δ
7. Internal Developer Platforms in a nutshell
8. Internal Developer Platforms 8 Internal Developer Platform Platform interface Platform services Discover & create Operate & improve Integrate & deploy Web Portal API Chat CLI
9. IDP Workflows 9 Web portal API Chat CLI Issue Workflow Workflows/ Actions Service APIs Platform services create comment Platform edge APIs Platform services calls calls Service APIs extensive use of issue labels Platform services Service APIs not recommended evaluate pros/cons of each path comment MCP Client + Server not recommended less recommended recommended
10. Show me the code!
11. 11 https://github.com/deors/workshop-mcp-servers
12. Any final question? (and maybe some answers)
13. THANK YOU!