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20 Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) alternatives

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS): Microsoft's official AKS planning skill: separates the Day-0 decisions you cannot undo (networking, API server) from the Day-1 features you can switch on later. 20 agent skills do similar work, most sharing Kubernetes, DevOps and Microsoft, ranked by how much they have in common with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

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  1. by Microsoft

    Microsoft's official Azure skill for cost work: query historical spend, forecast it, and hunt down waste like orphaned disks and oversized VMs.

    Also: Azure, Microsoft, Official

  2. by Microsoft

    Microsoft's official skill that turns an agent into an Azure solution architect — 10 design principles, 6 architecture styles, 44 design patterns and a Well-Architected review workflow.

    Also: Azure, Microsoft

  3. by Microsoft

    Microsoft's official skill for registering a Microsoft Entra ID app: OAuth 2.0 flows, redirect URIs, API permissions, service principals and MSAL wiring.

    Also: Azure, Microsoft

  4. by PlanetScale

    PlanetScale's approval contract for agents: five operation classes that decide what a database agent may do freely, what needs a named approval, and what it must never do alone.

    Also: DevOps, Official

  5. by AWS Labs

    Read-only diagnostics for cluster-wide SageMaker HyperPod failures on EKS or Slurm — CloudFormation errors, EFA health checks, lifecycle scripts, capacity, dangling nodes and autoscaler conflicts.

    Also: Kubernetes, Official

  6. by Railway

    Railway's official agent skill: create projects, provision databases and buckets, deploy, manage variables and domains, and read build failures back — from the CLI, API or MCP server.

    Also: DevOps

  7. by Google Cloud

    Google's official skill for driving the gcloud CLI safely from an agent: validate every command against its own help text, cap the output, and refuse the operations that should never run unattended.

    Also: DevOps

  8. by Amazon Web Services

    Official AWS skill for authoring, deploying and debugging CDK stacks — construct patterns, bootstrap, drift, resource import and the CloudFormation errors that trap people.

    Also: DevOps

  9. by mikehasa

    Open-source agent skill that takes an AI-built app live on your own accounts: hosting, database, domain, email and payments, with a plan-and-approve workflow.

    Also: DevOps

  10. by HashiCorp

    HashiCorp's official Packer skill for building Amazon Machine Images with the amazon-ebs builder, covering template structure, plugin pinning and the cost and timing caveats.

    Also: DevOps

  11. by HashiCorp

    HashiCorp's official skill for writing Terraform that matches the published style guide — file layout, naming, variable validation and secure-by-default resources.

    Also: DevOps

  12. by Grafana Labs

    Grafana's official Alloy skill: write one collector config that carries metrics, logs, traces and profiles, validate it locally, and prove samples are actually leaving the box.

    Also: Kubernetes

  13. by Grafana Labs

    Grafana's official Tempo skill: stand up a tracing backend that needs nothing but object storage, then write TraceQL that finds the slow span instead of scrolling for it.

    Also: Kubernetes

  14. by Grafana Labs

    Grafana's official Loki skill: write LogQL that returns rows instead of timeouts, ship logs through Alloy, and reason about a store that indexes labels rather than log text.

    Also: Kubernetes

  15. by NVIDIA

    NVIDIA's official skill for bringing up Dynamo inference routing — pick a router mode, enable KV-aware routing, and smoke-test the frontend endpoint before claiming anything works.

    Also: Kubernetes

  16. by .NET Foundation

    The .NET team's official skill for capturing crash dumps from CoreCLR and NativeAOT apps on Linux, macOS, Windows and inside containers — collection only, no analysis.

    Also: Kubernetes

  17. by Google

    Google's official GKE skill — when Autopilot beats Standard, Workload Identity instead of JSON keys, Autopilot's 250m CPU rounding, and private-cluster flags.

    Also: Kubernetes

  18. by NVIDIA

    Deploy, configure and troubleshoot the NVIDIA RAG Blueprint from your agent — Docker Compose, Helm or library, with feature toggles for VLM, guardrails and agentic RAG.

    Also: Kubernetes

  19. by Datadog

    Install, instrument and analyse Datadog APM from an agent — Kubernetes and Linux Single-Step Instrumentation, service remapping, trace search and service maps.

    Also: Kubernetes

  20. by Microsoft

    Microsoft's official plugin for building, editing, running and debugging Power Automate cloud flows, with a bundled offline FlowAgent MCP server.

    Also: Microsoft