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

• Run after azure-prepare, before azure-deploy

• All checks must pass—do not deploy with failures

• ⛔ 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 —

Recipes

Recipe Reference

AZD recipes/azd/

AZCLI recipes/azcli/

Bicep recipes/bicep/

Terraform recipes/terraform/