OpenClaw with Azure AI Foundry

Setting Up OpenClaw with Azure AI Foundry

Introduction OpenClaw is a self-hosted gateway that connects your favorite chat apps — Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, iMessage, and more — to AI coding agents. It runs locally on your machine, keeping your data under your control while giving you the flexibility to interact with AI assistants from anywhere. In this post, we’ll walk through how to configure OpenClaw to use a model deployed on Azure AI Foundry as its backend. ...

February 22, 2026 · 7 min · Suraj Deshmukh