azure-local
azure-local is an agent skill published by microsoft, listed under deploy & operate. It lives in the microsoft/skills repository, which has 3,148 GitHub stars and is licensed under MIT; we last read it on 2026-09-16.
Manages Azure Local environments by planning, deploying, operating, and troubleshooting, including Arc registration, lifecycle updates, workloads such as Azure Local VMs and AKS on Azure Local, network security, and failure triage. Requires Azure credentials.
Install
skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads microsoft/skills’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.
npx skills add microsoft/skills
Maintenance
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.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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Skills from the same repository first, then others for this job by repository stars. Figures are from each repository when we last read it.
Common questions about azure-local
- What does azure-local do?
- Manages Azure Local environments by planning, deploying, operating, and troubleshooting, including Arc registration, lifecycle updates, workloads such as Azure Local VMs and AKS on Azure Local, network security, and failure triage. Requires Azure credentials.
- How do I install azure-local?
- Run npx skills add microsoft/skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
- Who publishes azure-local?
- microsoft.
- Is azure-local maintained, and what licence does it use?
- Its repository has 3,148 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-25. The repository declares the MIT licence.
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