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Skill 9 of 47

Azure Local

Plan, deploy, operate, and troubleshoot Azure Local (formerly Azure Stack HCI): sizing and prerequisites, Arc registration, lifecycle updates, workloads (Azure Local VMs, AKS on…

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Install

$ npx skills add microsoft/azure-skills --skill azure-local

$ npx skills add microsoft/azure-skills

» /plugin marketplace add microsoft/azure-skills

The first command installs just this skill, by the name in its SKILL.md; the second installs the whole repository.

Quick Reference

Property	Value
Best for	Azure Local planning, deployment, operations, workloads
MCP Tools	Generic Azure MCP tools only; no Azure Local namespace
CLI	`az graph query`, `az resource show`, Azure Local PowerShell
Related skills	azure-compute (public VMs), azure-kubernetes (public AKS)

Use for Azure Local, Azure Stack HCI, Azure Local VMs, AKS on Azure Local, AKS hybrid, SDN, lifecycle updates, disconnected sites, or troubleshooting. Covers standard deployments (1-16 node hyperconverged, up to 64 disaggregated) and rack-aware clusters.

Do not use for cloud VM or public AKS guidance, or for multi-rack (rack scale) deployments — those use a separate control plane and procedure set. Hand off to the azure-local-multi-rack skill.

MCP Tools

Azure Local has no dedicated MCP namespace. Use generic Azure MCP tools: mcp_azure_mcp_extension_cli_generate (ARG/CLI inventory), mcp_azure_mcp_monitor (needs Log Analytics), mcp_azure_mcp_resourcehealth (partial; not local cluster health), mcp_azure_mcp_documentation (pass the user’s version when known).

Scope and limitations: mcp-and-cli-tools (opens in a new tab).

Workflow

Confirm deployment scale. If the user mentions multi-rack, aggregation racks, Network Fabric Controller, Cluster Manager, or Microsoft.NetworkCloud resources, stop and use the azure-local-multi-rack skill instead.
Deploy -> plan-and-deploy (opens in a new tab)
Operate/update -> operate-and-update (opens in a new tab)
VMs, AKS, images, disks, networks -> workload-management (opens in a new tab)
SDN, NSG, load balancer, gateway -> networking-and-security (opens in a new tab)
Failures -> troubleshooting (opens in a new tab)

Read the matched workflow first and use docs-map (opens in a new tab). Start read-only. Ask before updates, deletes, reimages, network changes, VM power/delete operations, or Arc bridge/custom location changes.

Error Handling

Scenario	Remediation
Scale unknown	Ask whether the deployment is standard or multi-rack before giving procedures.
Multi-rack detected	Hand off to the `azure-local-multi-rack` skill; these procedures do not apply.
Version unknown	Ask for the Azure Local version, or use latest docs.
Risky change detected	Stop and follow safety-rules (opens in a new tab).
No local access	Stay with Azure control-plane checks only.
Doc URL 404/redirect	Search Learn for the article title with the user’s version.

About this skill

Trigger

Plan, deploy, operate, and troubleshoot Azure Local (formerly Azure Stack HCI): sizing and prerequisites, Arc registration, lifecycle updates, workloads (Azure Local VMs, AKS on Azure Local, images, disks, logical networks), SDN and network security, and failure triage — starting read-only and confirming before risky changes. WHEN: Azure Local, Azure Stack HCI, Arc resource bridge, custom location, Azure Local VM, Arc VM, AKS on Azure Local, AKS hybrid, SDN, Lifecycle Manager, Azure Local update, disconnected site.

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

Licence: MIT
Source: .github/plugins/azure-local-skills/skills/azure-local/SKILL.md

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How this issue was made

Source

github.com/microsoft/azure-skills, branch main, last pushed 23 September 2026.

Licence

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

Discovery

47 skills found by walking the repository tree for SKILL.md, not by matching a directory convention. 10 distinct layouts observed: .github/plugins/azure-cost/skills/*/SKILL.md, .github/plugins/azure-kusto-graph-skills/skills/*/SKILL.md, .github/plugins/azure-local-skills/skills/*/SKILL.md, .github/plugins/foundry-iq-skills/skills/*/SKILL.md, 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 skill — 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 skill so the document has one h1 and no skipped levels:

Removed “Azure Local”, a leading h1 that duplicated the skill title.

Spec compliance

6 editorial notes across 3 of 47 skills. They are printed in the margin of each skill rather than as errors here.

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

Images

Images inside a skill 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 5 plugins. 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 skill 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.

Quick Reference

Property	Value
Best for	Azure Local planning, deployment, operations, workloads
MCP Tools	Generic Azure MCP tools only; no Azure Local namespace
CLI	`az graph query`, `az resource show`, Azure Local PowerShell
Related skills	azure-compute (public VMs), azure-kubernetes (public AKS)

Confirm deployment scale. If the user mentions multi-rack, aggregation racks, Network Fabric Controller, Cluster Manager, or Microsoft.NetworkCloud resources, stop and use the azure-local-multi-rack skill instead.
Deploy -> plan-and-deploy (opens in a new tab)
Operate/update -> operate-and-update (opens in a new tab)
VMs, AKS, images, disks, networks -> workload-management (opens in a new tab)
SDN, NSG, load balancer, gateway -> networking-and-security (opens in a new tab)
Failures -> troubleshooting (opens in a new tab)

Error Handling

Scenario	Remediation
Scale unknown	Ask whether the deployment is standard or multi-rack before giving procedures.
Multi-rack detected	Hand off to the `azure-local-multi-rack` skill; these procedures do not apply.
Version unknown	Ask for the Azure Local version, or use latest docs.
Risky change detected	Stop and follow safety-rules (opens in a new tab).
No local access	Stay with Azure control-plane checks only.
Doc URL 404/redirect	Search Learn for the article title with the user’s version.

Azure Local

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Azure Local

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