July 2024
Intermediate to advanced
391 pages
10h 34m
English
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Chapter 3
Deploy and manage Azure compute resources
Microsoft Azure offers many features and services that can be used to create inventive solutions for almost any IT problem. Some of the most common services for designing these solutions are Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines (VM) and Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS). Virtual machines are among the key compute options for deploying workloads in Microsoft Azure.
The flexibility of virtual machines makes them a common option for many workloads. For example, you have a choice of server operating systems with various supported versions of Windows and Linux distributions. Azure virtual machines also provide you full control over the operating system along with advanced configuration options for networking ...