Creating an Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set

Let's create a new Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set and explain all the details as we go.

To create a new Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set, all information is provided in a single screen. In order to make it more visible, I have separated the screen into three images—basic and instances, autoscale, and networking.

The basic information for Scale Set is very similar to the basic information for VMs. This is only logical as scale set creates a primary VM and then clones this VM in order to scale out. We need to provide a Virtual machine scale set name, Operating system disk image, Subscription, Resource group, Location, Username, Password, and optionally add an Availability zone.

Next, we create the ...

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