Agent-Skills azure-baremetal-infrastructure

Expert knowledge for Azure Baremetal Infrastructure development including decision making, and architecture & design patterns. Use when planning NC2 on Azure BareMetal regions/SKUs, cluster sizing, HA layouts, and VNet/ExpressRoute integration, and other Azure Baremetal Infrastructure related development tasks. Not for Azure Large Instances (use azure-large-instances), Azure Virtual Machines (use azure-virtual-machines), Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (use azure-vm-scalesets), SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances (use azure-sap).

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/azure-baremetal-infrastructure" ~/.claude/skills/microsoftdocs-agent-skills-azure-baremetal-infrastructure && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/azure-baremetal-infrastructure/SKILL.md

source content

Azure Baremetal Infrastructure Skill

This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Baremetal Infrastructure. Covers decision making, and architecture & design patterns. 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
Decision Making	L30-L34	Guidance on choosing Azure regions and bare metal SKUs for Nutanix Cloud Clusters, including capacity, performance, and availability considerations.
Architecture & Design Patterns	L35-L38	NC2 on Azure BareMetal architecture choices, deployment topologies, integration patterns with Azure services, and design considerations for performance, HA, and networking.

Decision Making

Topic	URL
Select regions and SKUs for Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Azure	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/baremetal-infrastructure/workloads/nc2-on-azure/available-regions-skus

Architecture & Design Patterns

Topic	URL
Understand NC2 on Azure BareMetal architecture options	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/baremetal-infrastructure/workloads/nc2-on-azure/architecture