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 Service Plans – PaaS Compute Options
Every App Service you create in Azure runs inside an App Service plan. If you are not aware of App Service, you can consider it as an instance of your…
Pricing Tiers – PaaS Compute Options
In the case of VMs, there were different VM families targeting a different set of workloads. Each of these VM families comes with different hardware combinations and capabilities. Likewise, in…
Scaling – PaaS Compute Options
As you have seen in the case of virtual machine scale sets, you have two scaling methods available for App Service plans: scale out and scale up. From the Standard…
Azure App Services 2 – PaaS Compute Options
4. If you have selected the resource group and region that contains an existing App Service plan that matches the selected operating system, then that plan will be autoselected. Otherwise,…
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…