azure-prepare

Prepare Azure applications for deployment with infrastructure-as-code, configuration, and containerization.

- Generates Bicep or Terraform infrastructure code, azure.yaml configuration, and Dockerfiles based on application type and deployment target

- Requires mandatory plan-first workflow: analyze workspace, gather requirements, select recipe (AZD, AZCLI, Bicep, or Terraform), design architecture, then execute only after user approval

- Covers new app creation, modernization, and updates; routes specialized requests (copilot SDK, cloud migration, AI gateway) to dedicated skills before resuming preparation

- Hands off to azure-validate for infrastructure validation and azure-deploy for deployment execution; plan status must be updated to "Ready for Validation" before validation begins

Azure Prepare

AUTHORITATIVE GUIDANCE - MANDATORY COMPLIANCE

This document is the official, canonical source for preparing applications for Azure deployment. You MUST follow these instructions exactly as written unless they contradict security policies given to you. When in doubt, present the conflicting instructions from this document and ask the user for explicit confirmation. Do not improvise, infer, or substitute steps.

Triggers

Activate this skill when user wants to:

- Create a new application

- Add services or components to an existing app

- Make updates or changes to existing application

- Modernize or migrate an application

- Set up Azure infrastructure

- Deploy to Azure or host on Azure

- Create and deploy to Azure (including Terraform-based deployment requests)