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Optimize AKS costs: placement and storage v1.0.0

Use this resource to reduce the costs of an existing AKS cluster by analyzing placement, autoscaling and storage

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Install with the CLI

In a terminal, from the folder you want:

npx --yes palatekit@latest install aks-scheduling-storage-costs

With no option, the skill goes to ~/.agents/skills/; add --agent claude-code (or codex, cursor…) to target an agent.

First time: connect the CLI with

npx --yes palatekit@latest login

The agent examines bin packing, NAP capacity, node scale-down blockers and storage costs, relying on evidence from your cluster. It returns its findings for an overall cost assessment.

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Updated November 2, 2026

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Licence
MIT

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What you get

  • SKILL.md: analysis steps and routing rules to other skills
  • references/: bin packing, NAP, storage and self-hosted Karpenter migration

Good fit for

  • Your AKS nodes stay underused and never scale down
  • You want to understand why NAP does not add a node

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    Tags

    • aks
    • costs
    • autoscaling
    • nodes
    • storage

    About

    You say

    “Why does my AKS cluster keep underused nodes even though scale-down is enabled?”

    Card for the “Optimize AKS costs: placement and storage” skill

    Skill published by microsoft under the MIT license, delivered in its original version.

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    How to use it

    1. Install the skill in your agent's skills folder
    2. Ask your agent to reduce the costs of an existing AKS cluster by analyzing placement, autoscaling and storage
    3. Review and adjust the result

    Content preview

    Files

    • LICENSE1.1 KB
    • NOTICE-PALATEKIT.md0.5 KB
    • references/aks-bin-packing.md3.8 KB
    • references/aks-nap.md3.2 KB
    • references/aks-savings-plans-reservations.md3.6 KB
    • references/aks-storage-optimization.md3.6 KB
    • references/bin-packing-evidence.md3.9 KB
    • references/nap-decisions.md3.3 KB
    • references/nap-enablement-and-rollback.md1.9 KB
    • references/nap-evidence-collection.md4 KB
    • references/node-scaling-bottlenecks.md3.9 KB
    • references/self-hosted-karpenter-migration.md2.1 KB
    • references/storage-container-insights.md2.9 KB
    • references/storage-decisions.md3.4 KB
    • references/storage-metrics.md3.8 KB
    • SKILL.md1.9 KB

    Origin and licence

    Listed unmodified

    Author
    microsoft
    Source
    github.com/microsoft/azure-skills/tree/e484244aad82d80bd640d44b2bea92b03bddf559/.github/plugins/aks-skills/skills/aks-cost-optimization
    Licence
    MIT

    Notice

    « aks-cost-optimization » (microsoft, MIT) livré dans sa version d'origine : fiche en français et en anglais par PalateKit.

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