Azure Best Practices

This skill provides rules for building secure, reliable, and cost-effective Azure services. Rules are ordered by impact: CRITICAL rules prevent outages or security breaches; HIGH rules prevent common production issues; MEDIUM rules improve maintainability and cost.

Learned Patterns (Auto-Updated)

Before applying the rules below, check if LESSONS.md exists in the project root. If it does, read the section tagged with azure-best-practices and apply those project-specific lessons alongside the rules below.

Category 1: Identity & Access (CRITICAL)

Rule 1: Use Managed Identity — Never Embed Credentials

Impact: CRITICAL — Hardcoded credentials are the #1 cause of Azure security incidents.

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