Deploying and Configuring Scale Sets

Scale sets are beneficial for deploying horizontally scalable workloads, meaning that you can increase and decrease the number of assigned VM instances to the scale set to meet your resource requirements. This works particularly well for websites, especially when you consider special events such as holiday periods when usage is expected to peak sporadically. Having scale sets can enable you to provision resources to meet the increasing demand at the time of the sale and, conversely, reduce the instances when the sale is over, all without risking downtime.

In the following exercise, you will experience creating a VM scale set in Azure.

Exercise 12.2

To create a VM scale set from the Azure portal, take the following steps:

1. Navigate to the Azure portal by opening https://portal.azure.com/home.
2. Click on Create a resource and type Scale Set in the search bar. Select Virtual machine scale set from the set of Azure services returned...