Alex ter Neuzen 
Azure Local (formerly Azure Stack HCI) is often deployed for very good reasons: data sovereignty, low latency, regulatory requirements, or hybrid resilience. But once it’s live, a familiar problem quickly appears:
visibility fades, documentation lags behind, and operational knowledge sits in people’s heads instead of on paper.
That is exactly the gap Documenter for Azure Local is designed to close.
The real challenge with Azure Local documentation
Azure Local environments tend to be mission‑critical by design. They often power:
- Regulatory workloads (healthcare, government, finance)
- Business‑critical services that must keep running when the cloud is unavailable
- Hybrid architectures tightly integrated with Azure Arc
Yet documentation for these environments is usually:
- Manually maintained
- Incomplete or outdated
- Scattered across diagrams, Excel sheets, and runbooks
- Hard to reproduce for audits, handovers, or incidents
When auditors, security teams, or management ask “What exactly is deployed, and how is it configured?”, answering that question takes far too long.
Introducing Documenter for Azure Local
Documenter for Azure Local is an open‑source tool that automatically inventories your Azure Local clusters and produces structured, consistent documentation, based on actual configuration, not assumptions.
It queries Azure and Azure Arc to give you a clear, factual overview of your Azure Local environment, without manual effort.
No guesswork. No outdated diagrams. Just evidence.
Azure Local is often deployed where resilience, sovereignty, and control truly matter. Those environments deserve documentation that is just as serious.
Documenter for Azure Local helps you move from tribal knowledge to evidence, from manual effort to automation, and from uncertainty to clarity.
👉 Explore website: https://www.azuredocumenter.com
