Azure Firewall Manager Skill

This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Firewall Manager. Covers best practices, decision making, security, and configuration. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.

How to Use This Skill

IMPORTANT for Agent: This file may be large. Use the Category Index below to locate relevant sections, then use read_file with specific line ranges (e.g., L136-L144) to read the sections needed for the user's question

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
Best Practices	L32-L36	Details on how Azure Firewall evaluates and processes rules, rule collection groups, and policies, including priority, matching logic, and traffic filtering behavior
Decision Making	L37-L41	Guidance on choosing between a secured virtual hub and a hub virtual network in Azure Firewall Manager, including architecture, security, routing, and management trade-offs.
Security	L42-L48	Configuring Azure Firewall Manager for security: DDoS Protection plans, centralized WAF policy management, and threat intelligence-based traffic filtering.
Configuration	L49-L57	Configuring Azure Firewall policies: DNS/DNS proxy, FQDN filtering, IP Groups, rule migration, rule hierarchy/inheritance, and securing private endpoint traffic in Virtual WAN.

Best Practices

Topic	URL
Understand Azure Firewall rule processing order and logic	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/firewall-manager/rule-processing

Decision Making

Topic	URL
Choose between secured virtual hub and hub virtual network	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/firewall-manager/vhubs-and-vnets

Security

Topic	URL
Configure Azure DDoS Protection plans via Firewall Manager	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/firewall-manager/configure-ddos
Centrally manage WAF policies with Azure Firewall Manager	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/firewall-manager/manage-web-application-firewall-policies
Configure threat intelligence-based filtering in Azure Firewall policy	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/firewall-manager/threat-intelligence-settings

Configuration

Topic	URL
Configure DNS servers and DNS proxy in Azure Firewall policy	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/firewall-manager/dns-settings
Use FQDN filtering in Azure Firewall network rules	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/firewall-manager/fqdn-filtering-network-rules
Configure and reuse IP Groups in Azure Firewall policy	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/firewall-manager/ip-groups
Migrate Azure Firewall rules to Firewall policy with PowerShell	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/firewall-manager/migrate-to-policy
Secure private endpoint traffic in Azure Virtual WAN with Firewall rules	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/firewall-manager/private-link-inspection-secure-virtual-hub
Define rule hierarchy and inheritance with Azure Firewall policy	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/firewall-manager/rule-hierarchy