Virtual machine scale sets allows you to create identical virtual machine. The number of VM instances can automatically increase or decrease based on scheduled conditions
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Create a resource group for the resources
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Create a Virtual Network with a defualt subnet
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Create a network security group accepting incoming ssh, http and https request from my computer ip address. Attach to virtual network
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Create a Virual machine scale set with a mininmum of 1 instance and can auto scale to two instance
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Create a load balance with public ip address
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Create network interfaces to attach to the VMs
N:B I could only create a maximum of two instance on the VMSS because my student subscription only gives 3 public IP adresses
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one for the lb and the remaining two for the instances
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SSH into the VM and installed apache server