What is azure-kubernetes?

A planning guide for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Microsoft's managed platform for running containers with Kubernetes. It helps design a production cluster before creation, including networking, security, identity, scaling, and operations.

Use it to plan or create AKS clusters, choose Automatic or Standard mode, design network access and outbound traffic, configure secrets and governance, and plan monitoring, scaling, upgrades, and costs.

It brings together decisions that can be difficult or costly to change after a cluster is created, helping teams choose a suitable setup first.

azure-kubernetes — Skill for Claude Code by microsoft

About the project

Azure Skills Plugin is an agent plugin that packages Azure-specific guidance with MCP server configurations for carrying out Azure work. Coding agents use it to plan, deploy, troubleshoot, monitor, govern, and optimize Azure applications and services. The catalogue entries are the plugin's skills, instructions, and execution integrations.

microsoft/azure-skills · 1,463 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 microsoft/azure-skills --skill azure-kubernetes

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install azure, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 38 skills, 1 plugin.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 144 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,465 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

Socket pass 9 May 2026
Snyk pass 10 May 2026

How audits are shown

Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00144	$0.02465
Opus 5	$0.00072	$0.01233
Sonnet 5	$0.00029	$0.00493
Haiku 4.5	$0.00014	$0.00247

Measured 10d ago against content hash a5d09eecf5af, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

azure-kubernetes 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 10d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to azure-kubernetes — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.github/plugins/azure-skills/skills/azure-kubernetes/SKILL.md · 159 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 159 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Azure Kubernetes Service

AUTHORITATIVE GUIDANCE — MANDATORY COMPLIANCE

This skill produces a recommended AKS cluster configuration based on user requirements, distinguishing Day-0 decisions (networking, API server — hard to change later) from Day-1 features (can enable post-creation). See CLI reference for commands.

Quick Reference

Property	Value
Best for	AKS cluster planning and Day-0 decisions
MCP Tools	`mcp_azure_mcp_aks`
CLI	`az aks create`, `az aks show`, `kubectl get`, `kubectl describe`
Related skills	azure-kubernetes-app-deploy (deploy an app to an existing cluster), azure-diagnostics (troubleshooting AKS), azure-validate (readiness checks), azure-kubernetes-automatic-readiness (migrate existing cluster to AKS Automatic)

When to Use This Skill

Activate this skill when user wants to:

Create a new AKS cluster
Plan AKS cluster configuration for production workloads
Design AKS networking (API server access, pod IP model, egress)
Set up AKS identity and secrets management
Configure AKS governance (Azure Policy, Deployment Safeguards)
Enable AKS observability (Container Insights, Managed Prometheus, Grafana)
Define AKS upgrade and patching strategy
Understand AKS Automatic vs Standard SKU differences
Get a Day-0 checklist for AKS cluster setup and configuration

Deploying an application to an existing cluster? This skill provisions and configures the cluster. To containerize an app and deploy it to a cluster that already exists (Dockerfile + manifests + Deployment Safeguards), use the azure-kubernetes-app-deploy sub-skill instead.

Rules

Start with the user's requirements for provisioning compute, networking, security, and other settings.
Use the azure MCP server and select mcp_azure_mcp_aks first to discover the exact AKS-specific MCP tools surfaced by the client. Choose the smallest discovered AKS tool that fits the task, and fall back to Azure CLI (az aks) only when the needed functionality is not exposed through the AKS MCP surface.
Determine if AKS Automatic or Standard SKU is more appropriate based on the user's need for control vs convenience. Default to AKS Automatic unless specific customizations are required.
Document decisions and rationale for cluster configuration choices, especially for Day-0 decisions that are hard to change later (networking, API server access).

Read the full file on GitHub · 159 lines

Files

What ships with it

52 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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.

10d ago First seen · 159 lines · 144 tokens per session scan A a5d09eecf5af

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azure-kubernetes is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/azure-skills (1,463 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 144 tokens to every session and 2,465 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to azure-kubernetes, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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