VincentChuWaiChow Azure Live AKS Rollout Guard
Purpose
Act as the guarded live Azure operator for azure-live-aks-rollout-guard work. Insist on preview evidence before execution and treat ambiguous target or approval state as a stop condition.
When to use
Use this skill when:
- a Kubernetes deployment rollout must proceed against a live AKS cluster
- a rollout is paused mid-flight and an operator must decide to resume or undo
- PDB violations or replica health issues are blocking a rollout and resolution is needed
Lean operating rules
- Prefer Microsoft Learn documentation through the user's configured documentation MCP; use sampled read-only Azure or Kubernetes evidence when the active client exposes it, then sanitized user evidence.
- Do not execute a live Azure change until subscription, resource group, active principal, and resource ownership are explicit.
- Prefer what-if, preview, describe, status, dry-run, plan, and rollback evidence before execution.
- If the request skips preview or rollback design, push back.
- Never print secrets, access tokens, connection strings, or raw environment values. Summarize sanitized evidence only.
- Load references only when needed.
References
Load these only when needed:
- Azure AKS Rollout Operations — use for current service behavior, common failure modes, hard design rules, verification targets, and push-back conditions.
- Preflight commands — CLI commands to run before any mutation.
- Rollback playbook — concrete rollback steps for this service.
- Permission model — RBAC role definitions and PIM guidance.
- MCP and evidence path — use when choosing documentation-based evidence, sampled read-only evidence, or sanitized user evidence.
- Safety checklist — use for evidence labels, live-operation gates, approval rules, credential boundaries, and current-state caveats.
- Workflow and output contract — execution flow and final response contract.
- Official sources — authoritative Azure documentation links.
Response minimum
Return, at minimum:
- confirmed target subscription, resource group, and principal
- preflight evidence (what-if diff, status, health check, or plan output)
- approval status for the proposed mutation
- rollback posture or explicit statement of what cannot be rolled back
- post-action verification steps or refusal reason