Virtual Machine Scale Set

A virtual machine scale set (VMSS) consists of a group of identical virtual machines that are load-balanced, enabling automatic scaling of workloads. This set can be set up to flexibly change the number of virtual machines based on defined conditions. Furthermore, we can manually adjust it to efficiently allocate computing resources for workload management.

Steps to create a VMSS

1. Sign in to the Azure portal.
   Click “Create a resource” on the top left corner of the portal.
   

2. Search for “Virtual Machine Scale Set” in the search bar.
   Click on the “Virtual Machine Scale Set” result. Click the “Create” button
   

3. On the Basic Tab, The first section is that of Project details select the “subscription”, “resource group”. Take a look at the Scale set details section. The next section is the Orchestration that allows us to select the “orchestration mode“ and also “security”. The next section is instance details.
   
   

4. In the Administrator account section, select your “authentication type.”
   For the purpose of the exercise, we will select “Password” instead of SSH public key and this means you will need to create a username and a password.

5. Check the “Licensing” option.

6. Click on the Blue “Review + Create” Button.
   

7. Create
   

8. Wait for the deployment to be completed. Deployment will take some time to be completed typically between 3-5 minutes.
   

9. Click on the “go to resource” button to access the newly created Azure VMSS.
   

10. Check the status of the VMSS.
    This is supposed to show succeeded.
    

Thank you