Azure Stack Hub version 2206 was release a couple of months ago, but anyone trying to deploy ASDK 2206 to Azure will have found that the latest version is 2108. Until the official method is updated, here’s how you can do it .

I’m using the awesome scripts by Yagmur Sahin as the basis for the solution: https://github.com/yagmurs/AzureStack-VM-PoC

• Open the Azure portal and then create a PowerShell Cloud Shell.

I recommend you reset the user settings, as there can be issues with versions of the Azure PowerShell modules.

• Run the following command in the new PowerShell session:

• Run the following, changing to meet your requirements. VirtualMachineSize can be from the following sizes:

  "Standard_E32s_v3",

  "Standard_E48s_v3"

The configuration example above has enough resources to run an OpenShift cluster.

Running the script will initially:

• Create a resource group

• Create a storage account

• copy the ASDK 2206 VHD image to the storage account

• Create the VM using the VHD image

• Create a Public IP for the VM

Note: As part of the provisioning process, the admin user account you specify gets changed to ‘Administrator’. I would Strongly recommend removing the Public IP associated with the VM and deploy Azure Bastion to protect your ASDK instance

Once the ASDK VM has been provisioned, connect to it (Bastion or RDP). The username you specified previously is ignored, so use ‘Administrator’ as the user and enter the password you defined.

Once connected, open a PowerShell window (as Administrator), and run the following as an example (I’m using ADFS as I’m simulating a disconnected environment)

You’ll then need to enter the AdminPassword when prompted, and then the script will do it’s magic (as long as the password is correct!) and take a number of hours to install.

The above recording shows the first few minutes of the script (sped-up! :) ).

After a few hours, the VM will reboot. If you want to check progress, you should use the following username to connect:

azurestackadmin@azurestack.local

Use the password you initially defined

Here’s some of the output you’ll see from PowerShell if you do connect as azurestackadmin (there’s still a few hours left to go!)

After 7hours 25 minutes, the install completed. You can determine this from the following log entry:

To prove that version 2206 has been installed, open the admin portal and check the properties for the region/instance.

As I used ADFS for this example, I had to login as cloudadmin@azurestack.local. If using AAD use the account you define when initially running the setup script.

Hope that helps if you want to deploy version 2206 as well as a simplified deployment tutorial.

Footnote: I tried using v5 series VM’s to deploy ASDK on, but it failed due to a network issue. I assume it is due to a different NIC/drive being used than the v3 series.