Containerization Assist is an open-source initiative from Azure designed to help teams simplify and accelerate the journey to containerizing applications. It provides practical tooling, guidance, and automation patterns, along with emerging agentic integration capabilities, to assess, transform, and operationalize workloads into container-based architectures, enabling consistent deployment, scalability, and modern DevOps practices. At its core, it focuses on reducing friction in adopting containers, helping developers move from traditional application setups to portable, cloud-ready solutions that can run reliably across environments like Kubernetes or Azure-native platforms.

✅ Chapters:
00:23 Introduction
01:20 What's Container Assistant
02:42 How Container Assist helps the User - Demo Part 1
07:18 What's the Future - Pipelines and validations integrations
09:03 How Container Assist helps the User - Demo Part 2
09:25 How to Contribute and Getting Started and Demo Part 3

✅ Resources:
GitHub | Azure/containerization-assist
Docs | https://azure.github.io/containerization-assist/

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Jorge Arteiro | https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorgearteiro 
Tatsat Mishra | Tatsat Mishra | LinkedIn
David Gamero | David Gamero | LinkedIn

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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.

Containerization Assist - Simplifying Modern App Delivery