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Azure Resiliency

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Expert knowledge for Azure Resiliency development including best practices, security, configuration, and deployment. Use when configuring backup/replication policies, vault lifecycle, zone-down drills, RBAC roles, or recovery plans, and other Azure Resiliency related development tasks. Not for Azure Reliability (use azure-reliability), Azure Service Health (use azure-service-health), Azure Monitor (use azure-monitor).

Source: /skills/azure-resiliency/SKILL.md

Install Skill

Azure Resiliency Skill

This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Resiliency. Covers best practices, security, configuration, and deployment. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.

How to Use This Skill

IMPORTANT for Agent: Use the Category Index below to locate relevant sections. For categories with line ranges (e.g., L35-L120), use read_file with the specified lines. For categories with file links (e.g., [security.md](security.md)), use read_file on the linked reference file

IMPORTANT for Agent: If metadata.generated_at is more than 3 months old, suggest the user pull the latest version from the repository. If mcp_microsoftdocs tools are not available, suggest the user install it: Installation Guide

This skill requires network access to fetch documentation content:

  • Preferred: Use mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch with query string from=learn-agent-skill. Returns Markdown.
  • Fallback: Use fetch_webpage with query string from=learn-agent-skill&accept=text/markdown. Returns Markdown.

Category Index

Category Lines Description
Best Practices L32-L36 Guidance on systematically assessing Azure workloads for resiliency gaps and applying standardized resiliency recommendations and patterns across many resources at scale.
Security L37-L44 RBAC roles, limits, security levels, and recovery orchestration plans for designing, configuring, and reviewing secure, resilient Azure solutions.
Configuration L45-L56 Configuring drills, policies, and vaults for resiliency: zone-down chaos tests, backup/replication policies, resilience goals/posture, vault lifecycle, and recovery orchestration plans.
Deployment L57-L62 Planning and validating zone-down drills for Azure apps, using support matrices to see which services, workloads, and scenarios are covered for resiliency testing.

Best Practices

Topic URL
Review and apply resiliency recommendations at scale https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/resiliency/goals-recommendations-review-recommendations

Security

Topic URL
Apply RBAC and limits for resiliency goals https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/resiliency/goals-recommendations-support-matrix
Apply Recovery Orchestration Plan support and roles https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/resiliency/recovery-orchestration-plan-support-matrix
Use security levels in Resiliency for protection https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/resiliency/security-levels-concept
Review and adjust Resiliency in Azure security levels https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/resiliency/tutorial-review-security-posture

Configuration

Topic URL
Configure Zone Down Drill and Chaos Workspaces https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/resiliency/availability-zone-down-drill-define
Execute and monitor Zone Down Drill runs https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/resiliency/availability-zone-down-drill-execute
Create backup and replication protection policies in Resiliency https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/resiliency/backup-protection-policy
Assign resilience goals and manage posture https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/resiliency/goals-recommendations-assign-goals-view-posture
Use Azure Copilot Resiliency Agent for zone design https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/resiliency/goals-recommendations-use-agent
Manage backup and replication protection policies in Resiliency https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/resiliency/manage-protection-policy
Manage lifecycle of Azure Backup and Site Recovery vaults https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/resiliency/manage-vault
Create and configure Azure Recovery Orchestration Plans https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/resiliency/recovery-orchestration-plan-create-configure

Deployment

Topic URL
Plan Availability Zone Down Drills for Azure apps https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/resiliency/availability-zone-down-drills-about
Use support matrix for Zone Down Drills https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/resiliency/availability-zone-down-drills-support-matrix
Use Resiliency support matrix for workload coverage https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/resiliency/resiliency-support-matrix