deploy-to-aks

deploy-to-aks is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Azure/containerization-assist. It costs 0 tokens per session (4,224 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An automated process for taking a source repository to a running application on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Microsoft's managed Kubernetes platform. It builds and scans a container image, stores it in Azure Container Registry (ACR), deploys it, and verifies the result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build a Docker image, scan it, prepare an AKS cluster, push the image to ACR, create Kubernetes deployment files, deploy the application, and check that it runs.
Why use it?
It coordinates the many steps between source code and a running cloud deployment, reducing missed preparation, security, or verification tasks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to build a Docker image, scan it, prepare an AKS cluster, push the image to ACR, create Kubernetes deployment files, deploy the application, and check that it runs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/azure/containerization-assist/deploy-to-aks
About the project

Containerization Assist is an MCP server that helps create, inspect, and deploy Docker containers and Kubernetes applications. Developers use it for Dockerfile generation, image scanning, Kubernetes manifest creation, security checks, policy-based configuration, and deployment workflows.

Azure/containerization-assist · 41 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add Azure/containerization-assist --skill deploy-to-aks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Azure/containerization-assist

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,224 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 5 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 60
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 144
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 172
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 181
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 251
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00000 $0.04224
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.02112
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00845
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00422

Measured 8d ago against content hash 1b210530952f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deploy-to-aks 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 8d 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.

skills/deploy-to-aks/SKILL.md · 263 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 263 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deploy to AKS

You are driving a full repository → running pod on AKS iteration loop. This skill orchestrates other skills — read each one before you run its step, pass results forward, and don't duplicate their logic here.

Inputs

Collect (ask the user once if any are missing):

  • registry (required) — ACR login server, e.g. myregistry.azurecr.io
  • resourceGroup (required) — Azure RG containing the AKS cluster
  • clusterName (required) — AKS cluster name
  • namespace (optional) — defaults to a unique name like staging-<short-hash>
  • imageName (optional) — defaults to the repo directory name
  • repoPath — the current working directory (confirm with user)
  • targetPlatform — fixed linux/amd64 (standard AKS node arch)
  • environment — fixed production

After collection, echo back the resolved values in one block and ask the user to confirm before running Step 1.

Workflow

Run the steps strictly in order. Retry each step up to 2 times before halting. Keep the user informed after every step.

Step 1 — Select and validate the Azure tenant

  1. az account show --query "{tenantId:tenantId, tenantDisplayName:tenantDisplayName, user:user.name}" -o json → current tenant.
  2. az account tenant list --query "[].{tenantId:tenantId, displayName:displayName, defaultDomain:defaultDomain}" -o json (fall back to az account list ... | dedupe by tenantId if unavailable).
  3. Present a picker (default = current tenant; additional = other tenants; free-text fallback). Use vscode_askQuestions if available.
  4. If the chosen tenant differs from the active one, run az login --tenant "<selectedTenantId>" and re-check.
  5. Validate az account show --query tenantId -o tsv == <selectedTenantId>.
  6. Record tenantId. Confirm: "Using tenant (<tenantId>)."

Step 2 — Select and validate the Azure subscription

  1. az account show --query "{id:id, name:name, tenantId:tenantId}" -o json.
  2. az account list --query "[?state=='Enabled' && tenantId=='<tenantId>'].{id:id, name:name}" -o json.
  3. Picker (default = current sub; additional = other enabled subs in tenant; free-text fallback).
  4. Validate with az account show --subscription "<id>" ...tenantId must match Step 1.
  5. az account set --subscription "<id>". Confirm: "Using subscription (<id>)."

Read the full file on GitHub · 263 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. 8d ago First seen · 263 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 1b210530952f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

deploy-to-aks is a skill published in the GitHub repository Azure/containerization-assist (41 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 4,224 tokens. 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 2026-08-30.

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