Azure MCP Best Practices

Tool Selection

Task	Tool	Example
List resources	mcp__azure__*_list	Storage accounts, Key Vault secrets
Get resource details	mcp__azure__*_get	Container details, database info
Create resources	mcp__azure__*_create	New secrets, storage containers
Query data	mcp__azure__*_query	Log Analytics, Cosmos DB

Common Operations

Storage

• storage_accounts_list - List storage accounts
• storage_blobs_list - List blobs in container
• storage_blobs_upload - Upload file to blob

Key Vault

• keyvault_secrets_list - List secrets
• keyvault_secrets_get - Get secret value
• keyvault_secrets_set - Create/update secret

Cosmos DB

• cosmosdb_databases_list - List databases
• cosmosdb_containers_list - List containers
• cosmosdb_query - Query documents

AKS

• aks_clusters_list - List AKS clusters
• aks_nodepools_list - List node pools

Monitor

• monitor_logs_query - Query Log Analytics

Authentication

Azure MCP uses Azure Identity SDK. Authenticate via:

• az login (Azure CLI - recommended)
• VS Code Azure extension
• Environment variables (service principal)

Reference

• Azure MCP Server
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