Monk - Your AI DevOps Agent for VS Code

GitHub Copilot Helps You Code, Monk Deploys Your Code.

Monk is an AI-powered DevOps agent that automates container building and deployment straight from VS Code. Run your project locally or in any cloud in minutes, including dependencies like databases, with no DevOps expertise required. Monorepo or a single-service, frontend or backend, all languages and frameworks and application types are supported.

Features

• Autonomous Containerization: Automatically generates Dockerfiles for your applications and tests them locally
• One-Click Deployment: Deploy to Azure, AWS, GCP, or DigitalOcean with minimal configuration
• Infrastructure Setup: Handles infrastructure provisioning and configuration
• Deployment Management: Monitor and manage your running deployments
• CI/CD Integration: Creates GitHub Actions workflows for automatic deployment (coming soon)

Getting Started

1. Install the Monk extension from the VS Code marketplace
2. Connect to your Monk account (or create one)
3. Use the Monk chat participant to interact with the AI agent, for example:
   • Build your project: @monk hey, build my project this will prepare your project for deployment
   • Deploy your project: @monk hey, deploy my project to Azure this will deploy your project to your Azure account

Requirements

• VS Code 1.97.0 or later
• Access to GitHub Copilot
• A Monk.io account (sign up at https://monk.io)

Note: This extension installs additional runtime dependencies automatically.

Usage Examples

Deploying a Project

1. Open your project in VS Code
2. Open the VS Code chat interface and select "Monk" from the chat participants
3. Ask "Deploy my project to Azure" (or AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean)
4. Follow the prompts as Monk analyzes your project, creates configurations, and deploys

Managing Deployments

Once your project is deployed, you can ask Monk:

• "Check logs of my payment service and let me know if everything is okay"
• "Give me a shell to my database"
• "Open the frontend in the browser"

Support

For issues, questions, or feedback, visit https://roadmap.monk.io/ or email hello@monk.io.