Deployment: Azure Local Foundry

Scope

This is the deployment page for Azure Local Foundry, one of the three targets in ADR-0011. Compare all three targets on the Deployment targets hub.

This target has not been built yet

Nothing on this target has been deployed from this repository, and no automation exists for it yet. Everything below is drawn from accepted decisions and first-party research. Treat it as a design, not an as-built record.

What is decided today

• Public preview, access by request. No SLA and no published GA date.
• Eighteen supported regions, East US among them, so this target needs no new region decision.
• Ordered install: Gateway API CRDs, then Inference Extension CRDs, then Istio via Helm, then the Microsoft.CertManagement extension, then the Microsoft.Foundry extension, then ModelDeployment custom resources.
• The ordering is load-bearing. Reversing it forces an istiod restart and is reported as flaky. The gate between the prerequisite and platform layers is kubectl get gatewayclass istio reporting Accepted.
• The gate is a preview access request, which is free and reversible and should be submitted now, plus one read-only what-if test. No automation is written yet.

The research and decisions behind this page

These were open when this page was first written. They are now written and linked below. Where a finding contradicted an earlier claim on this page, the page has been corrected and says so inline.

• ADR-0014, the governing decision (Status: Proposed, awaiting approval)

Still genuinely open

• SPIKE-30, the AKS Arc Bicep feasibility spike