Compute Flashcards
(36 cards)
Azure’s VM Pricing Interval
Hourly
Generally speaking, price goes up as you add these
Resources (like CPU and memory)
A group of identical load balanced VMs
Scale Sets
Maximum number of VMs in a Scale Set
1000
Cost of a scale set
Free, you pay for the LBs and all of the other VM related costs you would for a standalone
Name of the entity that Scale Sets base their deployment on
Baseline VM
Scale Sets make changes when
Demand increases and decreased
Certain times of the day
Azure App Service is this type of Cloud product
PaaS
Azure App Service combines and manages these three things, allowing you focus on your business value and logic
Networking, Storage, Servers
Runs on both Windows and Linux
Supports lots of popular languages
Easily integrates with other Azure servivces
Comes with auto-scaling and load balancing
Azure Web Apps (and Azure Web Apps for Containers)
Azure API Apps
Host your API (data backend service) in a variety of languages
The primary Azure service for running conatiner workloads
Azure Container Instances
What managment tool must you use to interact with Azure Container Instances?
Portal, CLI, or Powershell…whichever you prefer!
The container image source for ACI and AKS
ACR (Azure Container Registry)
Two of many benefits of using AKS
Elastic compute, Azure IAM
Benefits of Azure Virtual Desktop
Reuse of win10 licensing
concurrency
Anywhere access
Secure data with Azure Storage and related options
How does an Azure Function get started?
Calling an web URL
What determines the location, features, cost, and compute associated with an Azure App Service instance?
App Service Plan
How do you instantiate an Azure Web App through the console?
Use the Azure App Service option
An Azure App Service Web app needs and instance name with this property to work correctly
Unique name
What is a fully managed platform on Azure?
A fully managed platform means the provider manages the infrastructure layer, such as VMs, disks, networks, and more. You only have to focus on the core functionality of your application. Fully managed services on Azure are available on all subscription types and come at no extra cost.
The access point for a load balancer that receives all traffic
Frontend
VM Instances receiving traffic from an LB
Backend Pool
Checks (2) to ensure backends should receive traffic from an LB
Rules and Health Checkes