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
Decision Making
Security
Configuration