This GitHub Action allows you to provision resources and deploy your application on Azure with Azure Developer CLI commands. The action installs the Azure Developer CLI on a user-defined Azure Developer CLI version. If the user does not specify a version, latest CLI version is used.
Azure/setup-azd is a GitHub Action that installs the Azure Developer CLI, a command-line tool for provisioning Azure resources and deploying applications. It supports workflows that choose a specific CLI version or use the latest one.
Latest release v2.4.0 — setup-azd_v2.4.0 · 6 Aug 2026
3 files for GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode: setup-azd copilot-instructions.md, github-action-release, setup-azd AGENTS.md — 2,077 tokens loaded in every session.
.github/copilot-instructions.md A 295 tok AGENTS.md A 1,782 tok .github/skills/github-action-release/SKILL.md A 220 tok These files are Azure/setup-azd's own configuration — they tell GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode how to work on this repository, so they are not mods to install elsewhere. Copy one as a starting point and replace the parts that are about this project.