The Azure Arc Community brings together everyone interested in the Azure management for any infrastructure—on-premises, multicloud, and at the edge. The core of the community for me is Azure Arc Jumpstart, as it extends this promise with automated scenarios, sandboxes, and community-driven guides.
In this post, I’ll show you how to plug into the Azure Arc and Arc Jumpstart ecosystem, plus share my favorite YouTube channels and discussion spaces, so you know how I stay up to date and generate the content for this blog.
Table of Contents
Why Join the Azure Arc Community?
Being part of the Azure Arc community means tapping into collective knowledge and proven patterns. You’ll find:
- Hands-on scenarios and drop-in scripts for servers, Kubernetes, data services, and more
- Live Q&A and peer support on GitHub and TechCommunity forums
- Continuous updates on new features, architecture diagrams, and best practices
- Content created by the Microsoft Product Team and Microsoft MVPs
YouTube Channels
Below are my top five channels for Azure Arc and Jumpstart content. Each one delivers unique insights—from official demos to deep dives by community experts.
Azure Arc Jumpstart
https://www.youtube.com/@azurearcjumpstart
This is the official Jumpstart channel maintained by the Azure Arc team. You’ll find structured playlists covering servers, Kubernetes, data services and more. Each video is a mini-workshop showing not just code but the rationale behind design choices. Expect 5–10 minute demos that automate day-one to day-two operations and spotlight community contributions.
Azure Arc Server Forum
https://www.youtube.com/@AzureArcServerForum
Focused on servers, this community-driven channel walks you through Windows and Linux onboarding via PowerShell and Bash. Watch troubleshooting streams for connectivity and agent-management issues. You’ll also catch operations content on update management, monitoring extensions, security hardening and live Q&A with MVPs and Microsoft engineers.
Manfred Helber
https://www.youtube.com/@ManfredHelber
Manfred is an Azure Local and hybrid infrastructure MVP who blends on-prem hardware with Azure Arc. His channel features full-blown workshops on combining Arc with Azure Local, Windows Server 2025, Hyper-V, Storage Spaces Direct, SDN and other Azure related content. Real-world demos from customer environments make his step-by-step guides especially practical for infrastructure pros.
Alexander Ortha
Alexander’s channel focus on sharing the latest and greatest development of Azure Hybrid content around Windows Server, Azure Arc and Azure Local. With his decades of experience he shares high quality presentations and demo content including insights from customer environments and Microsoft best practices.
Sven Langenfeld
https://www.youtube.com/@SvenLangenfeld
The Focus is on Azure Local and he gives Monthly Updates in the Azure Local Show with Manfred Helber. Sven is the go to sales and technical specialist on Azure local and
Even more Youtube Channels
There is a lot of additional content to follow. Check this list, if you are not done learning:
- Microsoft Azure – YouTube – The official Microsoft Azure Channel
- ITOpsTalk – YouTube – Official Guides and Learning videos from Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Advocacy Team
Recommended Community Resources
GitHub Discussions for Azure Arc
https://github.com/microsoft/azure_arc/discussions
This is the central forum for all things Jumpstart. You’ll find official updates, scenario reviews, performance tuning threads (ArcBox, HCIBox) and user “Drops” contributions. Start your own discussion to share scripts, request features or dive into roadmap conversations with maintainers.
Azure Arc Blog on Microsoft Tech Community
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/category/azure/blog/azurearcblog
The product team publishes announcements, deep-dive articles and community guest posts here. You’ll get public preview news, architecture guidance on connectivity and governance, and straight-from-the-source best practices. Leave comments to engage directly with PMs and MVP authors.
Azure Arc Discussions on Tech Community
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/category/azure/discussions/azurearc
This forum extends the blog’s content into open threads. Post your hybrid architecture questions, share lessons learned from production rollouts and influence feature ideas. Engage with active contributors, peers, MVPs and product group members in real time.
Even more Azure Arc Community content
Check the following websites to get connected with MVPs, Microsoft employees and other content creators:
- Sarah Lean – https://www.techielass.com/
- Thomas Maurer – https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/
- Christian Twilfer – https://nextgencloudarchitecture.hashnode.dev/
Recommended Websites and Resources
Microsoft Learn: Azure Arc Learning Path
This curated learning path from Microsoft offers interactive sandboxes, step-by-step tutorials and conceptual modules on Arc-enabled servers, Kubernetes and data services. Perfect for hands-on learners preparing for Azure certifications.
Azure Adaptive Cloud Solutions
https://azure.microsoft.com/solutions/adaptive-cloud
Explore Microsoft’s adaptive cloud vision: unify teams, sites and systems under one AI-powered operations and management layer. Here you’ll find solution briefs, video series and case studies showing how the adaptive cloud scales across hybrid, multicloud, edge and IoT.
Microsoft Learn: Cloud Adoption Framework (Hybrid & Multicloud)
Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework für Azure – Cloud Adoption Framework | Microsoft Learn
The CAF guides you through landing zone design, governance, networking and automation for hybrid and multicloud estates. Its best-practice reference architectures ensure your Arc-based landing zones are secure, compliant and scalable.
Get started today – Quick guide
There is no better day to start, then today. Here is how i would get started today.
- Subscribe to all five YouTube channels and enable notifications
- Follow the Azure Arc Blog, comment on posts that resonate, and attend any live Q&A webinars.
- Get to Azure Arc Jumpstart and download the presentations here and get used to the greatest visualizations around Azure Arc I have seen.
Conclusion
With these resources at your fingertips, you’re set to become an active member of the Azure Arc Jumpstart ecosystem. There is much more to discover, so start your journey today and let’s keep combining the best of the past with what works today.
I’d love to hear how your journey started and what other great content did you find useful? Message me via LinkedIn, Mastodon, Bluesky or join the Adaptive Cloud Community on Reddit.
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