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.
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.
The Azure Local Cloud project is organised across the following GitHub repositories:
This documentation site — implementation guides, automation runbooks, and standards.
PowerShell scripts and Bicep templates for deploying and validating Azure Local infrastructure.
Azure Virtual Desktop on Azure Local — deployment guides and automation.
Scale-Out File Server and FSLogix profile container configuration for Azure Local.
Load testing and benchmarking tools for Azure Local clusters.
Tools and guides for migrating VMs to Azure Local from other platforms.
Structured training curriculum and learning paths for Azure Local.
Guidance and automation for migrating from Nutanix to Azure Local.
S2D capacity planning and workload sizing for Azure Local.
Read-only discovery, documentation, audit and reporting for Azure Local.
Automation for simplified machine provisioning using BMC and Redfish.
Pre-deployment endpoint, network and hardware readiness validation.
Real-time monitor for Azure Local deployments.
Hardened golden VM image pipelines using Packer and Azure Image Builder.
Storage Spaces Direct inventory, capacity analysis and health.
Runbooks and tooling for migrating VMware vSphere workloads to Azure Local.
IaC and automation for AKS on Azure Local.
Azure IoT Operations on Azure Local.
Highly available SQL Server (FCI or AG) on Azure Local.
Azure Monitor, Prometheus and Grafana for Azure Local.
Business continuity and disaster recovery for Azure Local.
Chargeback, showback and cost reporting for Azure Local.
Policy, security and compliance baselines for Azure Local.
Interactive isometric diagram builder for Azure Local network architectures.
Disconnected and air-gapped Azure Local operations runbooks.
Azure App Services on Arc-enabled Kubernetes for Azure Local.
Machine learning and AI inference workloads on Azure Local.
Azure SQL Managed Instance via Arc data services on Azure Local.
Arc-managed VMs and container workloads on Azure Local.
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.