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About Azure Local Cloud

What is Azure Local Cloud?

Azure Local Cloud is an open-source community project that publishes practical, field-tested guidance for deploying and operating Azure Local (formerly Azure Stack HCI) infrastructure. The project covers the full deployment lifecycle — from Azure foundation and on-premises readiness through cluster deployment, operational foundations, and advanced solutions.

Every guide is written by engineers who deploy Azure Local in production environments. Content is structured as step-by-step runbooks with multiple execution options (Portal, CLI, PowerShell, ARM template) so engineers can follow the approach that matches their tooling and automation maturity.

Maintained by Hybrid Cloud Solutions

Azure Local Cloud is created and maintained by Hybrid Cloud Solutions, a specialist consultancy focused on Microsoft hybrid cloud infrastructure. Hybrid Cloud Solutions engineers deploy, validate, and document Azure Local in real customer environments — the guides here reflect that hands-on experience.

The project is published under an open-source licence. Contributions from the broader community are welcome — see the Contributing guide for details.

Project Repositories

The Azure Local Cloud project is organised across the following GitHub repositories:

azurelocal.github.io

This documentation site — implementation guides, automation runbooks, and standards.

azurelocal-toolkit

PowerShell scripts and Bicep templates for deploying and validating Azure Local infrastructure.

azurelocal-avd

Azure Virtual Desktop on Azure Local — deployment guides and automation.

azurelocal-sofs-fslogix

Scale-Out File Server and FSLogix profile container configuration for Azure Local.

azurelocal-loadtools

Load testing and benchmarking tools for Azure Local clusters.

azurelocal-vm-conversion-toolkit

Tools and guides for migrating VMs to Azure Local from other platforms.

azurelocal-training

Structured training curriculum and learning paths for Azure Local.

azurelocal-copilot

GitHub Copilot customisation and AI-assisted authoring standards for the org.

azurelocal-nutanix-migration

Guidance and automation for migrating from Nutanix to Azure Local.

Design Principles

  • Field-tested: All content reflects real deployments, not hypothetical scenarios.
  • Opinionated where it matters: We recommend specific approaches based on production experience, while documenting alternatives.
  • Automation-first: Every manual step has a scripted equivalent. Scripts live in the companion azurelocal-toolkit repository.
  • Open: All guides, scripts, and templates are published under open-source licences.

Get Involved

Found an error? Have a better approach? Want to document a scenario we haven't covered yet? Contributions are welcome. Start with the Contributing guide or open a GitHub Discussion.