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Execute deployment to Azure. Final step after preparation and validation. Runs azd up, azd deploy, or infrastructure provisioning commands. npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/GitHub-Copilot-for-Azure --skill azure-deploy Download ZIPGitHub226

Triggers

Activate this skill when user wants to:

• Execute deployment of an already-prepared application (azure.yaml and infra/ exist)

• Push updates to an existing Azure deployment

• Run azd up, azd deploy, or az deployment on a prepared project

• Ship already-built code to production

• Deploy an application that already includes API Management (APIM) gateway infrastructure

Scope: This skill executes deployments. It does not create applications, generate infrastructure code, or scaffold projects. For those tasks, use azure-prepare.

APIM / AI Gateway: Use this skill to deploy applications whose APIM/AI gateway infrastructure was already created during azure-prepare. For creating or changing APIM resources, see APIM deployment guide. For AI governance policies, invoke azure-aigateway skill.

Rules

• Run after azure-prepare and azure-validate

• .azure/deployment-plan.md must exist with status Validated

• Pre-deploy checklist required — Pre-Deploy Checklist

• ⛔ Destructive actions require ask_user — global-rules

• Scope: deployment execution only — This skill owns execution of azd up, azd deploy, terraform apply, and az deployment commands. These commands are run through this skill's error recovery and verification pipeline.

Steps

Action Reference

1 Check Plan — Read .azure/deployment-plan.md, verify status = Validated AND Validation Proof section is populated .azure/deployment-plan.md 2 Pre-Deploy Checklist — MUST complete ALL steps Pre-Deploy Checklist 3 Load Recipe — Based on recipe.type in .azure/deployment-plan.md recipes/README.md 4 RBAC Health Check — For Container Apps + ACR with managed identity: run azd provision --no-prompt, then verify AcrPull role has propagated before proceeding (see checklist) Pre-Deploy Checklist — Container Apps RBAC 5 Execute Deploy — Follow recipe steps Recipe README 6 Post-Deploy — Configure SQL managed identity and apply EF migrations if applicable Post-Deployment 7 Handle Errors — See recipe's errors.md — 8 Verify Success — Confirm deployment completed and endpoints are accessible Verification 9 Live Role Verification — Query Azure to confirm provisioned RBAC roles are correct and sufficient live-role-verification.md 10 Report Results — Present deployed endpoint URLs to the user as fully-qualified https:// links Verification

⛔ URL FORMAT RULE

When presenting endpoint URLs to the user, you MUST always use fully-qualified URLs with the https:// scheme (e.g. https://myapp.azurewebsites.net, not myapp.azurewebsites.net). Many Azure CLI commands return bare hostnames without a scheme — always prepend https:// before presenting them.

⛔ VALIDATION PROOF CHECK

When checking the plan, verify the Validation Proof section (Section 7) contains actual validation results with commands run and timestamps. If this section is empty, validation was bypassed — invoke azure-validate skill first.

SDK Quick References

• Azure Developer CLI: azd

• Azure Identity: Python | .NET | TypeScript | Java

MCP Tools

Tool Purpose mcp_azure_mcp_subscription_list List available subscriptions mcp_azure_mcp_group_list List resource groups in subscription mcp_azure_mcp_azd Execute AZD commands azure__role List role assignments for live RBAC verification (step 9)

References

• Troubleshooting - Common issues and solutions

• Post-Deployment Steps - SQL + EF Core setup