'az aks scale' should be able to scale #of linux and windows nodes

[sherland]

It is apparently possible to get AKS to use windows nodes, though I can't see any way to do this easily in the gui or the command-line.

It should be possible to scale both linux and windows nodes from the command-line and gui.

How about adding a node-type parameter, so that you could write this to have two windows nodes and zero linux nodes?

az aks scale --node-type windows --node-count 2 --name ...
az aks scale --node-type linux --node-count 0 --name ...

This issue is maybe related to:

• Start/Stop Cluster - Support zero node clusters #52 az aks scale should be able to handle a node count of zero
• "Access is denied" when pulling Windows Nano Server container images (microsoft/aspnetcore:2.0-nanoserver-1709) #55 "Access is denied" when pulling Windows Nano Server container images (microsoft/aspnetcore:2.0-nanoserver-1709)

[ahaeber]

Related to this it would also be good to be able to specify vm size like you can when the cluster is created (aks create command and the vm-size parameter).

[slack]

Windows support will be a first-class citizen mid next year. The plan is to allow for multiple node pools. Each node pool would be of one type "windows" or "linux".

You will be able to scale each node pool independently.