Virtual Machine Scale Sets Documentation

Azure virtual machine scale sets let you create and manage a group of identical, load balanced, and autoscaling VMs. Learn how to create, configure, manage, and autoscale virtual machine scale sets with our quickstarts, tutorials, and samples.

Quickstarts

Learn how to deploy a web server on a virtual machine scale set.

Azure PortalAzure Portal
Azure CLI 2.0Azure CLI 2.0
Azure PowerShellAzure PowerShell

Step-by-Step Tutorials

Learn how to deploy, manage, and autoscale virtual machine scale sets on Azure.

  1. Create and manage a scale set with the Azure CLI 2.0 or Azure Powershell
  2. Use data disks with the Azure CLI 2.0 or Azure Powershell
  3. Use a custom VM image with the Azure CLI 2.0 or Azure Powershell
  4. Deploy apps to a scale set with the Azure CLI 2.0 or Azure Powershell
  5. Autoscale a scale set with the Azure CLI 2.0 or Azure Powershell
  6. Deploy apps to an Azure virtual machine scale set with a custom Packer image

Samples

Example deployments for virtual machine scale sets.