[Alban (afetahi)]

Summary

Expand the Sovereign Cloud manual setup README into an executable guide for individual lab learners and workshop organizers.

• Document required tools and PowerShell modules, with installation links and verification commands.
• Establish a consistent starting directory and explain Bash versus PowerShell execution and line continuation.
• Explain separate Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell authentication, including device authentication in Codespaces.
• Add provider-registration and quota-check commands, with an explicit warning that the provider script processes all accessible subscriptions regardless of Set-AzContext.
• Provide complete Bash and PowerShell alternatives for deploying the shared AKS/K3s Bicep template, securely entering the administrator password, and retrieving deployment outputs.
• Clarify the separate LocalBox deployment, additional quota and cost, post-provisioning location, health-check requirements, and common errors.

Scope

Documentation only: updates resources/manual-setup/readme.md. No deployment scripts or infrastructure templates are changed. All subscription and tenant IDs remain placeholders.

Validation

• Parsed all PowerShell code blocks without executing them.
• Checked Bash examples with bash -n.
• Verified all relative file links and ran git diff --check.
• No Azure deployments were executed as part of this documentation change; live deployment remains environment- and quota-dependent.

[Marco Weber (qxsch)]

Alban (@afetahi) please accept cla

[Alban (afetahi)]

@microsoft-github-policy-service agree

[Marco Weber (qxsch)]

Jan Egil Ring (@janegilring) please review (and merge this in case everything is ok)

[Jan Egil Ring (janegilring)]

Thanks for the contribution!