azure-devtest-optimizer

What This Skill Does

The azure-devtest-optimizer is a specialized expert analysis tool designed to help cloud administrators and DevOps engineers identify and eliminate financial waste within Azure environments. It focuses specifically on non-production workloads, such as development, testing, and sandbox environments, which are often left running 24/7 unintentionally. By analyzing your Azure resource metadata, cost usage reports, and subscription types, the agent calculates potential monthly savings and generates actionable remediation plans, including PowerShell runbooks for auto-shutdown schedules and guidance on leveraging Azure Dev/Test pricing.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your environment, use the OpenClaw command-line interface. Run the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/anmolnagpal/devtest-optimizer Once installed, ensure you have the 'Cost Management Reader' and 'Reader' RBAC roles assigned to your identity in the target Azure subscription to retrieve the necessary data for the agent to analyze.

Use Cases

1. Cloud Cost Reduction: Automatically detect which dev/test VMs are running 24/7 and calculate how much money would be saved by implementing a 12-hour-a-day shutdown schedule.
2. Subscription Optimization: Determine if your current dev/test resources can be migrated to Azure Dev/Test subscriptions to leverage up to 55% lower rates.
3. Policy Enforcement: Receive recommendations for Azure Policy definitions that enforce tagging standards for environment classification (e.g., 'env=dev'), ensuring long-term governance.
4. Automation Scaling: Generate custom PowerShell scripts or Logic App templates to automate the lifecycle of non-production virtual machines, reducing manual overhead.

Example Prompts

1. "I am pasting my Azure VM inventory export here. Can you analyze which of these are currently running in my Dev environment and calculate the monthly savings if I implement a 7pm-7am auto-shutdown schedule?"
2. "My Azure cloud spend is way too high for my development team. Here is my consumption usage list from the last month. Can you tell me which resources are the biggest culprits for 24/7 waste?"
3. "Do my current subscriptions qualify for Azure Dev/Test pricing, and if so, how do I apply that to my existing VM workloads?"

Tips & Limitations

• Instruction-Only: This skill does not execute actions in your cloud provider. You are the operator; the agent acts as an analytical consultant. It will never ask for your credentials, keys, or secrets.
• Data Privacy: Always strip sensitive information, such as IP addresses or specific resource IDs, from data exports before sharing them with the agent. The agent will confirm no credentials are included upon receipt of your data.
• Dependencies: For the most accurate analysis, provide both VM tags and cost consumption reports. Relying on only one source may lead to incomplete optimization recommendations. If you do not have automated exports, manual estimates regarding team hours and VM counts are accepted but will be less precise.