description	This template deploys an Ubuntu Virtual Machine Scale Set and uses a custom script extension to connect each VM to an Azure Files share
page_type	sample
products	azure azure-resource-manager
urlFragment	vmss-azure-files-linux
languages	bicep json

Deploy a VMSS that connects each VM to an Azure Files share

This template demonstrates using Azure File with virtual machine scale sets on Ubuntu. Every VM in this scale set will have a mounted Azure Files file share at the location you specify, and a symbolic link will also be created in the user's home directory.

Prerequisites

In order to run this template you need to create a storage account and file share in advance, which you will pass in as parameters. This template expects the following parameters (in addition to scale set name, capacity etc.):

1. Storage Account Name
2. Storage Account Key
3. File Share Name
4. Mount point (default is /mnt/azurefiles)

Step1: To create an Azure Storage Account

• How to create a Storage Account
• How to create Azure File Share

Step 2: Run this template with parameters

Tags: Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks, Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses, Microsoft.Network/loadBalancers, Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets, CustomScript