Virtual Machine Extensions – Automation, Deployment, and Configuration of Resources
By now, you know how to create a VM and gain access to the VM. Let’s say you want to create hundreds of VMs and want to configure them with…
Custom Script Extension – Automation, Deployment, and Configuration of Resources
As the name suggests, you can use the Custom Script for Linux Extension (CSE) to automatically invoke scripts and run them on virtual machines post-deployment. The script may include commands…
Azure App Services – PaaS Compute Options
Azure App Services refers to the applications, websites, mobile backends, or REST APIs that you deploy to the App Service plans. Earlier, App Services were known as web apps. In…
Continuous Deployment – PaaS Compute Options
Azure App Services have out-of-the-box support for continuous integration and deployment from a variety of providers. You can continue using your favorite source control program, be it Azure DevOps, GitHub,…
Manual Deployment – PaaS Compute Options
You can manually push code to Azure via the following options. These options require you to manually push the code every time when you update the code. If you navigate…
Creating Deployment Slots – PaaS Compute Options
You can create new deployment slots with an empty or cloned configuration. There are certain properties that can be swapped, and some of them cannot be swapped during the swap…
Azure Container Instances – PaaS Compute Options
As you have seen in the Docker architecture, you can deploy containers to a virtual machine running on Azure. Since virtual machines are an infrastructure-as-a-service solution, more administration and intervention…
Container Groups 2 – PaaS Compute Options
AKS is a completely platform-managed cluster, and you can easily create Kubernetes clusters in Azure and deploy your applications. AKS offloads the complex management and configuration tasks to Azure so…
Container Groups – PaaS Compute Options
A container group is a collection of containers that are scheduled on the same host machine. Since they are scheduled to the same host machine, you can share lifecycles, resources,…
Storage Classes – PaaS Compute Options
As mentioned earlier, you can use Standard or Premium tiers of both Azure Files and Azure Storage while creating persistent volumes in Azure. The type of storage is determined using…