azure-compute
by @microsoft/azure-skills · 557 stars · 98.9K installs/wk · Rank #45
Recommends Azure VM sizes and pricing, and troubleshoots connectivity issues like RDP/SSH and NSG failures.
Install
npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills --skill azure-computeSummary
- 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)