Scaling a virtual machine through your gallery in Azure



This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Clinton Mbilitem

Welcome back everyone join me on another wonderful adventure in the clouds. Today we will be looking at how to scale a virtual machine using your Gallery in Azure. Sounds like a myth right? well it is not :).

  • First of all, we will have to create a resource group as always and give it what ever name we like.

  • Then create a virtual machine

Then create a virtual machine

create

  • Select your resorce group, name virtual machine and select no infrastructure

Select your resorce group

  • Select password and fill in the form, then select http

select password

  • attach Disk

attach Disk

the

next

  • Now to network

Now to network

  • Now to Monitoring setting

Now to Monitoring setting

  • No need for extensions

No need for extensions

  • review and create

review and create

deployed

  • Now to create a template image we can choose to either generalize or specialize the VM first, then capture it as an image

resource

capture

  • Give your gallery a name and select specialized so no password is required to gain access to our system

  • Select a sytem verion and the number of systems we want

version

review

create

go

  • Now we deploy a Virtual Machine Scale Set from the image in our gallery

create

  • Give your swcale a name and select flexible for easy upscaling

scale

  • We can see our gallery system

to

password

create

go to resource

  • Thats our system done and functioning great

done

Thanks for tagging along, cheers!!!


This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Clinton Mbilitem