azure-compute
Installation
Summary
Recommend Azure VM sizes, scale sets, and configurations based on workload requirements and budget.
- Analyzes workload type, performance needs, scaling requirements, and cost to suggest 2–3 VM or VMSS options with trade-offs
- Verifies recommendations against live Microsoft documentation; falls back to reference files if fetch fails
- Queries the unauthenticated Azure Retail Prices API for current pricing without requiring an Azure subscription
- Guides VM vs VMSS decision through a decision tree covering autoscaling, instance count, availability, and statefulness
- Covers all VM families (general purpose, compute/memory optimized, GPU, confidential computing) and VMSS orchestration modes (Flexible vs Uniform)
SKILL.md
Azure Compute Skill
Routes Azure VM and Virtual Machine Scale Set (VMSS) requests to the right workflow.
When to Use This Skill
- User wants to recommend, compare, or price a VM or VMSS
- User wants to create, provision, or deploy a VM or VMSS
- User can't connect to a VM (RDP / SSH / port refused / black screen / password reset)
- User asks about Capacity Reservation Groups (CRG) — reserve, guarantee capacity, pre-provision
- User asks about Essential Machine Management (EMM) — machine enrollment, monitor
Disambiguate with azure-prepare: if the user wants to deploy an application (Docker service, web app, API, serverless workload), route to azure-prepare. vm-creator is for bare VM/VMSS infrastructure only.