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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