Kristopher
J. Turner
Hybrid Cloud ArchitectBuilderMicrosoft MVPMCT
I turn complex hybrid
infrastructure into practical tools.
Selected Work
Azure Local Ranger
Read-only discovery, audit, and reporting for Azure Local environments.
Azure Local Surveyor
Interactive capacity and workload planning for Azure Local and S2D.
CloudSmith
Modular hybrid-cloud management spanning control plane, relays, agents, automation, and operations.
StoryLark
Open-source engine for branded reading apps with synchronized narration, offline downloads, and cross-device progress.
RepoWrangler
GitHub and GitLab estate dashboard surfacing repository health and work needing attention.
ApiaryLens
Open-source, self-hosted, offline-first apiary intelligence and hive management.
More from the Workshop
AI engineering
Project 42
A repeatable, auditable framework for AI-assisted development with seven workstreams, explicit model routing, coordinated agents, and practical learning paths.
Explore project ↗Publishing
Holdfast Press
An independent publishing home for original stories and modern narrated reading experiences.
Explore project ↗AI media studio
Studio Foundry
The private Azure AI Foundry production backbone for scene art, style matching, and multi-voice narration across reading brands.
Explore project ↗Family platform
Turner Legacy
A modular private platform for family calendar, finances, budget, travel, decisions, and long-term digital records.
Explore project ↗Automation
Azure Local ZTP
PowerShell-driven zero-touch provisioning workflows that turn complex Azure Local setup into a repeatable engineered process.
Explore project ↗Monitoring
Azure Local SCOM MP
A shared health model delivered through SCOM and Azure Monitor for clusters, nodes, storage, volumes, and virtual machines.
Explore project ↗Automation
Azure Monitor ITSM
Infrastructure-as-code that connects Azure Monitor alerts to ServiceNow via Logic Apps, replacing the deprecated ITSM Connector.
Explore project ↗Infrastructure audit
AzureScout
A PowerShell module that inventories an Azure environment: ARM resources, Entra ID objects, costs, security posture, and policies.
Explore project ↗Field operations
Sunpath
A mobile-first PWA giving solar door-to-door teams parcel pre-qualification, GPS visit logging, bill-photo OCR, and pipeline tracking.
Explore project ↗Storytelling
Gunner the Lab
Illustrated short stories about a Labrador named Gunner and his cat companion, Tiger.
Explore project ↗Community platform
Heritage Community Hub
A private community management platform for Heritage Christian Fellowship in Nickelsville, VA.
Explore project ↗Storage analysis
Azure Local S2D Cartographer
Scans a live cluster and maps the entire S2D storage stack, from raw disks through resiliency layers to usable VM capacity.
Explore project ↗Infrastructure validation
AzL Beacon
A pre-deployment tool that boots from Dell AX hardware to validate network readiness before Azure Local cluster deployment.
Explore project ↗Training
Azure Local Operator Training
A workshop-first curriculum with 21 modules across five tracks, deployable via cloud, physical Hyper-V, or real Azure Local hardware.
Explore project ↗Community portal
Azure Local Community Hub
A community-driven hub aggregating documentation, training, and tools for Azure Local beyond official Microsoft docs.
Explore project ↗Automation
Azure Local AVD
Infrastructure-as-code automation for deploying Azure Virtual Desktop with session hosts on Azure Local clusters.
Explore project ↗Automation
Azure Local VM Conversion Toolkit
Scripts that convert Generation 1 VMs to Generation 2 across Azure Local and Hyper-V.
Explore project ↗Performance testing
Azure Local LoadTools
Automated performance and load testing for Azure Local clusters — storage, network, database, and system stress — with standardized reporting.
Explore project ↗About the builder
Useful systems begin with
understanding the people
who operate them.
I’m a Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer who builds across Azure Local, Azure Arc, hybrid infrastructure, automation, and AI-enabled engineering. The thread connecting the work is simple: make complicated technology understandable, repeatable, and genuinely useful.
Beyond the datacenter, I’m a husband, father of three, homesteader, woodshop tinkerer, and new beekeeper in the mountains of Virginia. Those worlds have a habit of becoming software projects too.
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