Azure Firewall Manager

Azure Firewall Manager Skill

This skill provides expert guidance for Azure Firewall Manager. Covers best practices, decision making, security, and configuration. It combines local quick-reference content with remote documentation fetching capabilities.

How to Use This Skill

> IMPORTANT for Agent: Use the Category Index below to locate relevant sections. For categories with line ranges (e.g., L35-L120), use read_file with the specified lines. For categories with file links (e.g., security.md), use read_file on the linked reference file

> IMPORTANT for Agent: If metadata.generated_at is more than 3 months old, suggest the user pull the latest version from the repository. If mcp_microsoftdocs tools are not available, suggest the user install it: Installation Guide

This skill requires network access to fetch documentation content:

• Preferred: Use mcp_microsoftdocs:microsoft_docs_fetch with query string from=learn-agent-skill. Returns Markdown.
• Fallback: Use fetch_webpage with query string from=learn-agent-skill&accept=text/markdown. Returns Markdown.

Category Index

| Category | Lines | Description |

|----------|-------|-------------|

| Best Practices | L32-L36 | Details on how Azure Firewall evaluates and processes rules, rule collection groups, and policies, including priority, matching logic, and traffic filtering behavior |

| Decision Making | L37-L41 | Guidance on when to use Azure Firewall Manager with a hub virtual network vs a secured virtual hub, including architecture, scenarios, and trade-offs for each option. |

| Security | L42-L46 | Configuring Azure Firewall Manager for security: DDoS Protection plans, centralized WAF policy management, and threat intelligence-based traffic filtering. |

| Configuration | L47-L58 | Configuring Azure Firewall Manager and policies: DDoS plans, DNS/DNS proxy, FQDN/IP group rules, WAF policy management, rule hierarchy, private endpoint protection, and secured virtual hubs. |

Best Practices

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Understand Azure Firewall rule processing order and logic | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/firewall-manager/rule-processing |

Decision Making

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Choose Azure Firewall Manager hub or secured virtual hub | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/firewall-manager/vhubs-and-vnets |

Security

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Configure threat intelligence-based filtering in Azure Firewall policy | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/firewall-manager/threat-intelligence-settings |

Configuration

| Topic | URL |

|-------|-----|

| Configure Azure DDoS Protection plans via Firewall Manager | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/firewall-manager/configure-ddos |

| Configure DNS servers and DNS proxy in Azure Firewall policy | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/firewall-manager/dns-settings |

| Use FQDN filtering in Azure Firewall network rules | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/firewall-manager/fqdn-filtering-network-rules |

| Configure and reuse IP Groups in Azure Firewall policy | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/firewall-manager/ip-groups |

| Manage WAF policies centrally with Azure Firewall Manager | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/firewall-manager/manage-web-application-firewall-policies |

| Migrate Azure Firewall rules to Firewall policy with PowerShell | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/firewall-manager/migrate-to-policy |

| Secure private endpoint traffic in Azure Virtual WAN with Firewall rules | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/firewall-manager/private-link-inspection-secure-virtual-hub |

| Define rule hierarchy and inheritance with Azure Firewall policy | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/firewall-manager/rule-hierarchy |

| Configure secured virtual hubs with Azure Firewall Manager | https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/firewall-manager/secure-cloud-network |