azure-validate

name

azure-validate

description

**CRITICAL**: Run azure-validate before deploying Azure resources. Validates Azure deployment readiness. USE FOR: assess if application is ready to deploy to Azure, validate azure.yaml or Bicep configuration files, run Azure preflight checks, review deployment previews and what-if analysis, verify Azure infrastructure configuration, troubleshoot Azure deployment errors. DO NOT USE FOR: creating new applications (use azure-prepare), executing deployments (use azure-deploy).

Azure Validate

AUTHORITATIVE GUIDANCE — Follow these instructions exactly. This supersedes prior training.

Triggers

• Check if app is ready to deploy
• Validate azure.yaml or Bicep
• Run preflight checks
• Troubleshoot deployment errors

Rules

1. Run after azure-prepare, before azure-deploy
2. All checks must pass—do not deploy with failures
3. ⛔ Destructive actions require ask_user — global-rules

Steps

#	Action	Reference
1	Load Manifest — Read .azure/preparation-manifest.md for recipe. If missing → run azure-prepare first	—
2	Run Validation — Load recipe-specific validation steps, including policy validation for the target subscription	recipes/
3	Resolve Errors — Fix failures before proceeding	See recipe's errors.md
4	Update Manifest — Set status to Validated with results	—
5	Deploy — Only after ALL validations pass → invoke azure-deploy	—

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Recipes

Recipe	Reference
AZD	recipes/azd/
AZCLI	recipes/azcli/
Bicep	recipes/bicep/
Terraform	recipes/terraform/