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Azure Enterprise Infra Planner

Architect and provision enterprise Azure infrastructure from workload descriptions.

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When to Use This Skill

Activate this skill when user wants to:

Plan enterprise Azure infrastructure from a workload or architecture description
Architect a landing zone, hub-spoke network, or multi-region topology
Design networking infrastructure: VNets, subnets, firewalls, private endpoints, VPN gateways
Plan identity, RBAC, and compliance-driven infrastructure
Generate Bicep or Terraform for subscription-scope or multi-resource-group deployments
Plan disaster recovery, failover, or cross-region high-availability topologies

Quick Reference

Property	Details
MCP tools	`insights_get`, `get_azure_bestpractices_get`, `wellarchitectedframework_serviceguide_get`, `microsoft_docs_fetch`, `microsoft_docs_search`, `bicepschema_get`
CLI commands	`az deployment group create`, `az bicep build`, `az resource list`, `terraform init`, `terraform plan`, `terraform validate`, `terraform apply`
Output schema	schema.md (opens in a new tab)
Key references	workflow.md (opens in a new tab), waf-checklist.md (opens in a new tab), resources/ (opens in a new tab), constraints/ (opens in a new tab)

Workflow (Start Here)

Follow the step-by-step instructions in workflow.md (opens in a new tab) to execute the 7 phases of infrastructure planning and provisioning.

MCP Tools

Tool	Purpose
`insights_get`	Retrieve insights about the user’s existing Azure environment to guide planning decisions
`get_azure_bestpractices_get`	Azure best practices for code generation, operations, and deployment
`wellarchitectedframework_serviceguide_get`	WAF service guide for a specific Azure service
`microsoft_docs_search`	Search Microsoft Learn for relevant documentation chunks
`microsoft_docs_fetch`	Fetch full content of a Microsoft Learn page by URL
`bicepschema_get`	Bicep schema definition for any Azure resource type (latest API version)

Error Handling

Error	Cause	Fix
MCP tool error or not available	Tool call timeout, connection error, or tool doesn’t exist	Retry once; fall back to reference files and notify user if unresolved
Plan approval missing	`meta.status` is not `approved`	Stop and prompt user for approval before IaC generation or deployment
IaC validation failure	`az bicep build` or `terraform validate` returns errors	Fix the generated code and re-validate; notify user if unresolved
Pairing constraint violation	Incompatible SKU or resource combination	Fix in plan before proceeding to IaC generation
Infra plan or IaC files not found	Files written to wrong location or not created	Verify files exist at `<project-root>/.azure/` and `<project-root>/infra/`; if missing, re-create the files by following workflow.md (opens in a new tab) exactly

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About this skill

Trigger

Architect and provision enterprise Azure infrastructure from workload descriptions. For cloud architects and platform engineers planning networking, identity, security, compliance, and multi-resource topologies with WAF alignment. Generates Bicep or Terraform directly (no azd). WHEN: 'plan Azure infrastructure', 'architect Azure landing zone', 'design hub-spoke network', 'plan multi-region DR topology', 'set up VNets firewalls and private endpoints', 'subscription-scope Bicep deployment', 'Azure Backup for VM workloads'. PREFER azure-prepare FOR app-centric workflows.

The verbatim description from this skill’s front matter — the string an agent matches on to decide whether to load it.

Licence: MIT
Also published for: GitHub — collapsed into this chapter because the copies are the same skill.
Source: skills/azure-enterprise-infra-planner/SKILL.md

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Source

github.com/microsoft/azure-skills, branch main, last pushed 7 August 2026.

Licence

MIT — the text of every chapter is reproduced unmodified, frontmatter included, under the upstream licence.

Discovery

37 chapters found by walking the repository tree for SKILL.md, not by matching a directory convention. 6 distinct layouts observed: skills/*/SKILL.md, skills/azure-app-onboard/*/SKILL.md, skills/azure-kubernetes/*/SKILL.md, skills/microsoft-foundry/*/SKILL.md, skills/microsoft-foundry/models/deploy-model/*/SKILL.md, skills/microsoft-foundry/models/*/SKILL.md.

Duplicates collapsed

37 mirror copies folded into their canonical chapter — republished for GitHub. Copies match on content hash and on position once a leading per-agent prefix is stripped, because the same skill is routinely shipped under a dozen agent directories with a dozen different hashes.

Issue colours

Resolved from a curated brand profile — hue 251°, chroma 0.167. Two accent tones are generated per issue and each is proven against its own ground before it ships: a single accent that passes AA on both light and dark paper is arithmetically impossible.

Heading repairs

1 repair applied to this chapter so the document has one h1 and no skipped levels:

Removed “Azure Enterprise Infra Planner”, a leading h1 that duplicated the chapter title.

Spec compliance

6 editorial notes across 3 of 37 chapters. They are printed in the margin of each chapter rather than as errors here.

Deploy — 2 notes
Prepare — 2 notes
Scaffold — 2 notes

Images

Images inside a chapter come from the upstream repository. Where the author gave no alternative text we mark the image decorative rather than inventing a description — a plausible caption we made up is worse than none for the reader who depends on it.

Marketplace

A plugin manifest is published at .claude-plugin/marketplace.json by Microsoft, declaring 1 plugin. It is read for editorial metadata only — never as the skill index, which is always the repository tree.

Signal

Install counts come from skills.sh. They measure downloads, not quality, and an unranked repository is not an unread one.

Agent surfaces

The whole issue is available as one markdown document at /microsoft/azure-skills.md, and each chapter at its own .md URL.

Publication

Set by Skills Docs from the source repository. Body text is Literata at the reader’s chosen size and measure; code is Geist Mono. Nothing on this page was written by us except this paragraph.

When to Use This Skill

Activate this skill when user wants to:

Plan enterprise Azure infrastructure from a workload or architecture description
Architect a landing zone, hub-spoke network, or multi-region topology
Design networking infrastructure: VNets, subnets, firewalls, private endpoints, VPN gateways
Plan identity, RBAC, and compliance-driven infrastructure
Generate Bicep or Terraform for subscription-scope or multi-resource-group deployments
Plan disaster recovery, failover, or cross-region high-availability topologies

Quick Reference

Property	Details
MCP tools	`insights_get`, `get_azure_bestpractices_get`, `wellarchitectedframework_serviceguide_get`, `microsoft_docs_fetch`, `microsoft_docs_search`, `bicepschema_get`
CLI commands	`az deployment group create`, `az bicep build`, `az resource list`, `terraform init`, `terraform plan`, `terraform validate`, `terraform apply`
Output schema	schema.md (opens in a new tab)
Key references	workflow.md (opens in a new tab), waf-checklist.md (opens in a new tab), resources/ (opens in a new tab), constraints/ (opens in a new tab)

Workflow (Start Here)

Follow the step-by-step instructions in workflow.md (opens in a new tab) to execute the 7 phases of infrastructure planning and provisioning.

MCP Tools

Tool	Purpose
`insights_get`	Retrieve insights about the user’s existing Azure environment to guide planning decisions
`get_azure_bestpractices_get`	Azure best practices for code generation, operations, and deployment
`wellarchitectedframework_serviceguide_get`	WAF service guide for a specific Azure service
`microsoft_docs_search`	Search Microsoft Learn for relevant documentation chunks
`microsoft_docs_fetch`	Fetch full content of a Microsoft Learn page by URL
`bicepschema_get`	Bicep schema definition for any Azure resource type (latest API version)

Error Handling

Error	Cause	Fix
MCP tool error or not available	Tool call timeout, connection error, or tool doesn’t exist	Retry once; fall back to reference files and notify user if unresolved
Plan approval missing	`meta.status` is not `approved`	Stop and prompt user for approval before IaC generation or deployment
IaC validation failure	`az bicep build` or `terraform validate` returns errors	Fix the generated code and re-validate; notify user if unresolved
Pairing constraint violation	Incompatible SKU or resource combination	Fix in plan before proceeding to IaC generation
Infra plan or IaC files not found	Files written to wrong location or not created	Verify files exist at `<project-root>/.azure/` and `<project-root>/infra/`; if missing, re-create the files by following workflow.md (opens in a new tab) exactly

Azure Enterprise Infra Planner

When to Use This Skill

Quick Reference

Workflow (Start Here)

MCP Tools

Error Handling

About this skill

Trigger

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Azure Enterprise Infra Planner

When to Use This Skill

Quick Reference

Workflow (Start Here)

MCP Tools

Error Handling

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About this skill

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Appendix 16.1–16.39

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