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Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure
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Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure

by Sjoukje Zaal, Amit Malik, Sander Rossel, Jason Marston, Mohamed Waly, Stefano Demiliani
December 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
494 pages
11h 41m
English
Packt Publishing
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Stateless components

Azure Batch uses parallel actions to process workloads. To fully leverage this capability, applications need to be split up into single and stateless tasks, called multi-instance tasks. By default, a Batch task is executed on a single compute node. By enabling multi-instance tasks, the task is executed on multiple compute nodes.

These multi-instance tasks are submitted to the Batch job and then distributed over the available nodes inside the Batch pool. Azure Batch automatically creates one primary task and several subtasks based on these multi-instance settings. The tasks that run in parallel use Azure Storage to save and retrieve the data that's used by the different tasks:

Azure Batch jobs and tasks

These multi-instance ...

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