VMSS

• Motive behind VMSS is
  • Scale in
  • Scale out

VMSS Best Practices

• Use Immutable Infrastructure as much as possible
• Suitable DevOps Pipeline For VMSS
  • ARM Templates + Packer (Creating VM Image)
  • Terraform + Packer (Creating VM Image)
• Try to Leverage Load balancers

VMSS Creation

• Refer Here
• Inputs:
  • VM Image
  • Size of individual VM
  • Min and Max number of VMs in VMSS
  • When do you want to scale in and out (metric)