Converting Bash scripts to PowerShell with GitHub CoPilot Chat

I recently downloaded a sample repository to deploy a Chroma and LangChain sample Open AI powered chatbot application to deploy an Azure. Create an Azure OpenAI, LangChain, ChromaDB, and Chainlit Chat App in Container Apps using Terraform - Microsoft Community Hub
It’s a cool deployment to have a play with OpenAI and to start interact with your own documents.



The solution is written to be deployed via Terraform, I won’t lie I was good at infrastructure as code back in 2017 (well maybe not good in the wow great code sense but things worked). After dusting off some terraform rustiness. I managed to deploy the infrastructure components.

• Resource Group
• Container Registry
• Container Apps Environment
• Chat Container
• Document Container
• OpenAI instance
• Managed Identity
• Log analytics
• ChromaDB - is deployed in the doc container

Going on to the deployment of the docker containers I noticed this were written in bash, I run Windows and yes, I know I can install the Linux subsystem and run the bash scripts but I know PowerShell and I have a new tool at my disposal. GitHub CoPilot Chat
To start the process all I had to do was highlight the bash scripts and right click CoPilot -> Start CoPilot Chat



GitHub Copilot Chat automatically suggests the code and knows I need a new PowerShell file to go along with it. Accepting the change will create a new file. It’s important here that you don’t just accept the suggestion and run the file. I had to make a few minor changes.



My docker deployment scripts where now runnable and I hit a snag:

> [internal] load build definition from Dockerfile:
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failed to solve with frontend dockerfile.v0: failed to read dockerfile: failed to create lease: write /var/lib/docker/buildkit/containerdmeta.db: read-only file system

Changing the the docker builtkit engine to true allowed me to resolve the issue



After an apply and restart I was able to build my docker images and deploy them to the container registry.



The scripts weren’t the most advanced but it shows how useful a tool like GitHub CoPilot Chat could be migrating, modernizing and helping lazy people like me get out of a bind.