You're reading from Azure for Architects Create secure, scalable, high-availability applications on the cloud

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839215865

Length 698 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

ActionScript

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (3):

Jack Lee

Ritesh Modi

Rithin Skaria

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

About Azure for Architects, Third Edition

1. Getting started with Azure

2. Azure solution availability, scalability, and monitoring FREE CHAPTER

3. Design pattern – Networks, storage, messaging, and events

4. Automating architecture on Azure

5. Designing policies, locks, and tags for Azure deployments

6. Cost management for Azure solutions

7. Azure OLTP solutions

8. Architecting secure applications on Azure

9. Azure Big Data solutions

10. Serverless in Azure – Working with Azure Functions

11. Azure solutions using Azure Logic Apps, Event Grid, and Functions

12. Azure Big Data eventing solutions

13. Integrating Azure DevOps

14. Architecting Azure Kubernetes solutions

15. Cross-subscription deployments using ARM templates

16. ARM template modular design and implementation

17. Designing IoT solutions

18. Azure Synapse Analytics for architects

19. Architecting intelligent solutions

Index

VM scale sets

VMSSes are Azure compute resources that you can use to deploy and manage a set of identical VMs. With all VMs configured in the same way, scale sets are designed to support true autoscaling, and no pre-provisioning of VMs is required. It helps in provisioning multiple identical VMs that are connected to each other through a virtual network and subnet.

A VMSS consists of multiple VMs, but they are managed at the VMSS level. All VMs are part of this unit and any changes made are applied to the unit, which, in turn, applies it to those VMs that are using a predetermined algorithm:

Figure 2.12: A VM scale set

This enables these VMs to be load balanced using an Azure load balancer or an application gateway. The VMs could be either Windows or Linux VMs. They can run automated scripts using a PowerShell extension and they can be managed centrally using a state configuration. They can be monitored as a unit, or individually...