Azure Compute

by microsoft

Azure Compute is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by microsoft in azure-skills.

1.4K stars231 forkson microsoft/azure-skillsAdded 2026/08/19+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/18

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Install Azure Compute

Copy Azure Compute into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills/tree/main/skills/azure-compute ~/.claude/skills/azure-compute

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/azure-compute/SKILL.md in microsoft/azure-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/azure-compute
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 798 skills

What Azure Compute does

Azure Compute routes Azure VM and Virtual Machine Scale Set requests to workflows for recommending, pricing, creating, and managing capacity reservations and essential machine management.

Azure Compute is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Azure Compute comes from a repository tagged agent-skills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

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 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.

Routing

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Azure Compute

What else does microsoft publish alongside Azure Compute?
Azure Compute is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from microsoft/azure-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AI Runway AKS Setup, App Insights Instrumentation and Azure AI. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Azure Compute does, and is maintained by microsoft in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the microsoft/azure-skills page.
How does Azure Compute compare to other DevOps skills?
Azure Compute ranks #350 by stars among the 798 DevOps skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Backend Patterns, API Connector Builder and Migration. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Azure Compute against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.