AKS AI Inference Roundup: The Model-Serving Stack
airunway-aks-setup (337K installs) walks a bare AKS cluster to a served LLM in six kubectl steps — zero MCP tools, KAITO default, GPU dtype traps
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appinsights-instrumentation (587K installs): guidance-only telemetry skill. SDK setup for ASP.NET Core, Node.js and Python, plus Container Apps observability
2026-09-18
AutomationAzure AI is a skills.sh skill that exposes Azure AI Search, Speech, OpenAI, and Document Intelligence as agent-callable tools through a single MCP server interface.
415K
2026-06-26
AutomationAzure Deploy automates Azure resource provisioning through your coding agent. Describe what you need, it handles templates and dependency ordering.
415K
2026-06-27
AutomationInside Microsoft’s azure-cloud-migrate skill (491K installs, #67): an 8-scenario router that assesses and converts Lambda, Kubernetes, and Spring Boot apps.
491K
2026-09-02
AutomationInside microsoft’s azure-compute skill (499K installs): four VM workflows, an unauthenticated pricing API, a banned quota MCP server, and pack-curve math.
499K
2026-09-01
Automationazure-cost (382K installs) reads your real bill via the Cost Management API: query, optimize, forecast workflows, hard rate limits, RBAC roles, name-twin trap.
2026-09-14
AutomationMicrosoft’s azure-diagnostics skill (553,878 installs) triages App Service, AKS, VM, and messaging outages via AppLens MCP. Pack-curve audit inside.
553K
2026-08-30
AutomationMicrosoft’s azure-enterprise-infra-planner (399K installs) plans Azure infra via a gated 7-phase pipeline, then generates checkov-clean Bicep or Terraform.
2026-09-05
AutomationInside Microsoft’s azure-kubernetes skill (389K installs): the Day-0 framework that locks in AKS networking, plus spot and autoscaler hard numbers.
389K
2026-09-03
Automationazure-kusto (585K installs) runs KQL over Azure Data Explorer: four MCP tools, five query patterns, and a CLI fallback that lists clusters but cannot query them
2026-09-17
AutomationMicrosoft azure-messaging (542,562 installs) routes Event Hubs and Service Bus SDK errors to 11 per-language guides. MCP contract and pack-curve audit inside.
542K
2026-08-31
AutomationMicrosoft’s azure-prepare (565K installs) forces a written plan file before any code, then scaffolds azd, Bicep, or Terraform and hands off to validation.
2026-09-06
AutomationAzure’s azure-rbac skill hit #62 with 485,620 installs, then got removed from its repo in July 2026. What it did, and where the RBAC guidance went.
485K
2026-08-26
AutomationWhat Microsoft’s azure-upgrade skill (424K installs) automates: Consumption to Flex, Redis to Managed Redis, Java SDK rewrites - gated by assessment first.
2026-09-04
Automationazure-validate (576K installs) runs nine validation gates before deployment, enforces data-plane RBAC checks, and alone may mark a plan Validated.
2026-09-12
AutomationMicrosoft’s entra-agent-id skill gives each agent instance its own Entra identity via Blueprint, BlueprintPrincipal, and the two-step fmi_path token exchange.
2026-09-16
Automationentra-app-registration (v1.2.1, 581K installs) turns Entra ID app setup into a five-step CLI workflow with real Graph permission GUIDs baked in.
2026-09-15
AutomationPart of Microsoft’s official azure-skills plugin. Gives AI agents direct access to Microsoft Foundry for model discovery, deployment, and agent workflow management via MCP.
365K
2026-06-03
Automationpython-appservice-deploy (193K installs) ships Flask, Django and FastAPI to App Service Linux — Oryx auto-detect, explicit uvicorn, zero post-deploy checks
2026-09-20
AutomationTutorials
I Ran Azure's Reliability Checks and Its Multi-Region Query Missed Its Own Setup
Running Microsoft’s azure-reliability skill (268K installs): the assessment table, the baseName regex that misses hex-suffixed apps, and the GRS-not-ZRS trap
Azure AI Gateway: 6 Steps to Govern OpenAI Calls
Govern Azure OpenAI via API Management in six steps: managed-identity backends, the right inbound policy order, semantic caching, token limits, 401/429 fixes
Azure Compliance Skill FAQ: azqr and Key Vault Audits
Straight answers on Microsoft’s azure-compliance skill: what azqr’s Excel output holds, how Key Vault expiry audits rank findings, what 583K installs signal.
App Onboard Roundup: Newcomers With Independent Counters
azure-app-onboard and azure-app-onboard-prereq (99K each) are the only azure-skills records with independent install counters and a 10-step read-only pipeline
Resource Lookup vs Visualizer: Inventory or Diagram?
Two Microsoft skills with nearly identical installs: lookup returns ARG tables and orphan hunts, visualizer returns Mermaid diagrams. Pick by artifact.
Azure Storage: A 5-Step Procedure for Choosing Service, Tier, and Redundancy
A 5-step decision procedure for Azure Storage: pick among blob, file, queue, table, and Data Lake, then access tier, redundancy, and SDK auth defaults.
Deploy to Azure Without Surprises: The 10-Step azure-deploy Runbook
A procedural guide to Microsoft’s azure-deploy (565K installs): the 10-step runbook, five pre-deploy traps, and the Container Apps AcrPull propagation gate.
Azure Skills Roundup: Spot the 4 Removed Skills
4 microsoft/azure-skills - azure-rbac, azure-hosted-copilot-sdk, cost-optimization, observability - deleted while install totals kept climbing.
Azure Planner Skills: infra-planner vs cloud-migrate
Which Azure planner fits: infra-planner architects greenfield Bicep/Terraform; cloud-migrate ports Lambda, K8s, Spring Boot. Phase gates, install data compared.
Check Azure Quotas Before Deploy: The CLI-First Workflow
A procedural guide to Microsoft’s azure-quotas skill (427K installs): install the quota extension, discover real quota names, and file CLI increase requests.
Using Microsoft Foundry Skill to Deploy AI Models via CLI
Microsoft’s official Azure skill for AI model management — browse, deploy, and configure models through your AI assistant using MCP