AKS-Lab-GitHubCopilot: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

.github/instructions/kubernetes.instructions.md

AKS-Lab-GitHubCopilot kubernetes.instructions.md is an instructions file for GitHub Copilot from microsoft/AKS-Lab-GitHubCopilot. It costs 573 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Infrastructure instructions for running agent services on Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure Container Apps, which host containerized applications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing Dockerfiles, Helm charts for Kubernetes, and Bicep files for Azure Container Apps.
Why use it?
They standardize container settings, networking, health checks, identity, secrets, scaling, and deployment configuration across environments.

Instructions file for GitHub Copilot ✓ vendor

Written for GitHub Copilot: a Copilot instructions file.

This is microsoft/AKS-Lab-GitHubCopilot's own configuration. It tells GitHub Copilot how to work on AKS-Lab-GitHubCopilot itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything AKS-Lab-GitHubCopilot configures →

About the project

ZavaShop on AKS and Azure Container Apps is a hands-on lab for delivering a multi-agent retail supply-chain application from requirements through deployment. It demonstrates a team of six GitHub Copilot custom coding agents working across specifications, application code, MCP servers, tests, infrastructure, and CI. The catalogue entries define the agents, skills, and instructions used in that workflow.

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When invoked 573 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
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Fable 5.1 $0.00573 $0.00573
Opus 5.5 $0.00229 $0.00229
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00115 $0.00115
Haiku 4.5 $0.00057 $0.00057

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 00893731818d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

AKS-Lab-GitHubCopilot kubernetes.instructions.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.github/instructions/kubernetes.instructions.md · 39 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 39 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AKS + ACA infrastructure conventions

Container images

  • Base: python:3.11-slim.
  • Multi-stage: builder stage installs deps with uv pip install --system, runtime stage copies /usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages + app code.
  • Non-root user: RUN useradd -m -u 10001 zava then USER zava.
  • Agents expose port 8000 and run uvicorn on 0.0.0.0:8000; MCP servers expose port 8080 and run FastMCP streamable HTTP on /mcp.
  • Image label org.opencontainers.image.source set to repo URL.

Helm (AKS)

  • One chart at infra/aks/helm/zavashop. Each agent is a subchart or a values-<agent>.yaml.
  • Required values: image.repository, image.tag, workloadIdentity.clientId, keyVault.name, tenantId, and a2a.<name> specialist URLs.
  • Every Deployment includes:
    • serviceAccountName: <agent>-sa with azure.workload.identity/use: "true".
    • readinessProbe and livenessProbe on /readyz and /healthz.
    • resources.requests: 200m CPU / 256Mi. limits: 1 CPU / 1Gi.
    • topologySpreadConstraints across zones for the orchestrator.

Bicep (ACA)

  • infra/aca/main.bicep parameters: acrName, envName, uamiId, copilotModel.
  • Each ACA module accepts minReplicas; Lab 05 deploys specialists and MCPs with minReplicas: 1 for reliable smoke/eval runs, maxReplicas: 10, and an HTTP concurrent-requests rule of 30.
  • All env vars referencing secrets use secretRef. Secret values are pulled from Key Vault via the keyVaultUrl property on the container app.

Networking

  • AKS uses Azure CNI Overlay, private cluster, API server VNet integration off (lab simplicity — flag for production).
  • Lab 05 exposes ACA specialists and MCP servers with HTTPS ingress so the AKS orchestrator can call their FQDNs from the lab network. Production landing zones should prefer private ingress, private DNS, and controlled egress once VNet integration is in place.

Tags

Every Azure resource: project=zavashop, lab=<n>, owner=<your-alias>.

Read the full file on GitHub · 39 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2mo ago First seen · 39 lines · 573 tokens per session scan A 00893731818d

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AKS-Lab-GitHubCopilot kubernetes.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository microsoft/AKS-Lab-GitHubCopilot (10 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 573 tokens to every session, about $0.0023 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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