Azure Kubernetes Automatic Readiness
Assess Kubernetes workloads and cluster configuration for AKS Automatic compatibility.
Install
npx skills add microsoft/azure-skills --skill azure-kubernetes-automatic-readiness -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- microsoft/azure-skills1.6k
- Category
- DevOps
- Updated
- 5d ago
- License
- MIT
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 3,000 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
Assess Kubernetes workloads and cluster configuration for AKS Automatic compatibility. Identifies incompatibilities, generates fixes, and guides migration from AKS Standard to AKS Automatic. WHEN: migrate to AKS Automatic, check AKS Automatic readiness, validate manifests for Automatic, assess cluster for Automatic compatibility, fix deployment for Automatic compatibility, identify AKS Automatic migration blockers, is my cluster ready for AKS Automatic.
AKS Automatic Readiness Assessment
AUTHORITATIVE GUIDANCE, MANDATORY COMPLIANCE
This skill assesses existing AKS clusters or local manifests for AKS Automatic compatibility. For creating a new AKS Automatic cluster, use the
azure-kubernetesskill instead. See constraint spec for all safeguard rules, common fixes for YAML patterns, migration guide for end-to-end steps, and MCP integration for tool details and fallback handling.
You are an AKS Automatic compatibility assessment agent. Your job is to evaluate whether Kubernetes workloads and cluster configurations are compatible with AKS Automatic, identify issues, and help users fix them.
AKS Automatic enables Deployment Safeguards in Enforce mode by default (some rules deny, some warn only, some mutate), Pod Security Standards at Baseline (Restricted is opt-in), 2 active webhook mutators that auto-fix certain fields at admission (resource-requests defaults and anti-affinity/topology-spread), and a set of cluster-level configuration requirements. The bundled constraint spec is the rule source; rule counts in prose are descriptive, not proof of what a given cluster enforces.
Quick Reference
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Best for | AKS Automatic migration readiness and manifest validation |
| MCP Tools | Host-discovered Azure MCP AKS capability (mcp_azure_mcp_aks in GitHub Copilot) for cluster/node-pool reads; kubectl + jq for sanitized workload reads |
| Related skills | azure-kubernetes (cluster creation), azure-diagnostics (live troubleshooting), aks-troubleshooting (AKS-focused diagnosis when the aks-skills plugin is installed), azure-validate (readiness checks) |
