--- title: Containerization Assist - Simplifying Modern App Delivery description: Containerization Assist is an open-source MCP server built by Microsoft that helps developers migrate existing applications to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/containerization-assist---simplifying-modern-app-delivery-cjy3q1ysj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Containerization Assist - Simplifying Modern App Delivery | daily.dev og:description: Containerization Assist is an open-source MCP server built by Microsoft that helps developers migrate existing applications to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/containerization-assist---simplifying-modern-app-delivery-cjy3q1ysj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/cjy3Q1ySJ.png og:image:alt: Containerization Assist - Simplifying Modern App Delivery og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Containerization Assist - Simplifying Modern App Delivery **[Microsoft Developer](https://daily.dev/sources/microsoftdeveloper)** · 13 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Containerization Assist is an open-source MCP server built by Microsoft that helps developers migrate existing applications to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Rather than flooding an AI agent's context with raw documentation, it provides Kubernetes-focused MCP tools that inject only the relevant context needed at each step. The tool generates Dockerfiles, Kubernetes manifests, and .dockerignore files, runs CVE security scans, enforces AKS best practices and policies (e.g., detecting root user usage), and validates deployments against a local kind cluster. It supports a structured loop workflow via GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code, guiding users step-by-step from repository analysis to a running deployment. Future plans include CI pipeline generation, GitHub Actions integration, and Azure security policy auto-remediation. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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