AZ523062 - Public Preview: Agentic CLI for AKS

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Published

Nov 11, 2025

Status

In preview

Timeline

  • November 2025
    Preview

Product

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Tag

Features

Category

Compute
Containers

Description

Diagnosing and resolving issues in Kubernetes clusters can be complex and time-consuming, especially when navigating logs, telemetry, and diagnostics manually. To simplify this experience, Azure Kubernetes Service is introducing a new agentic AI-powered CLI experience through the “az aks agent” command. 

This new capability brings agentic reasoning directly into the Azure CLI, allowing developers and operators to interact with their clusters using natural language. By describing an issue or query, users can trigger an intelligent agentic loop that gathers signals from multiple sources, analyzes diagnostics, identifies health issues and root causes, and provides actionable recommendations. The CLI agent also integrates with the AKS MCP server and can seamlessly create and manage an Azure OpenAI instance, though it supports any LLM provider. 

Powered by HolmesGPT - an open-source project co-maintained by the AKS team and accepted as a CNCF sandbox project- this feature is now available in public preview. 

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