Your first model deployment on Foundry Local on Azure Local: from catalog to inference in 10 minutes (opens in new tab)

Foundry Local on Azure Local is in public preview at the time of this writing. You've installed Foundry Local on your Azure Local cluster. The operator's pods are running, the CRDs are registered, you've checked it twice with kubectl get pods. Now what? This blog covers the part that comes right before all of that - the lifecycle pattern you'll use to deploy any model on Foundry Local on Azure Local. Our recent announcement covers the bigger picture: multi-node inference, vLLM as a first-clas...