Create an Azure Compute Fleet using Azure portal (Preview)

This article steps through using Azure portal to create a Compute Fleet.

Log in to Azure

Sign in to the Azure portal.

Create a Compute Fleet

You can deploy a Compute Fleet with a Windows Server image or Linux image such as RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, or SLES.

1. In the Azure portal search bar, search for Azure Compute Fleet and select the result under Marketplace.

2. Select Create on the Compute Fleet page.

3. In the Basics tab, under Project details, make sure the correct subscription is selected and create a new resource group called myFleetResourceGroup.

4. Under Instance details, set myFleet for your Compute Fleet name.

5. Select a Region that is close to your area.

6. Select a marketplace image for Image.

7. For Virtual machine types, select whether you're deploying Spot VMs, Standard VMs, or both. In this example, we select both.

8. Specify 3 to 15 virtual machine (VM) sizes for Sizes.

9. For Spot fleet deployment: Under VM capacity, specify your target capacity for Spot VM instance count between 1 and 10,000.

10. For Standard fleet deployment: Under VM capacity, specify your target capacity for Standard VM instance count between 1 and 10,000.

11. Under Administrator account configure the admin username and set up an associated password or SSH public key.

    • A Password must be at least 12 characters long and meet three out of the four following complexity requirements: one lower case character, one upper case character, one number, and one special character. For more information, see username and password requirements.
    • If you select a Linux OS disk image, you can instead choose SSH public key. You can use an existing key or create a new one. In this example, Azure generates a new key pair for us. For more information on generating key pairs, see create and use SSH keys.

12. Select Next: Networking to move the networking configuration options. For this quickstart, leave the default networking configurations.

13. When you're done, select Review + create.

14. After it passes validation, select Create to deploy the Compute Fleet.

Clean up resources

When no longer needed, delete the resource group, Compute Fleet, and all related resources. To do so, select the resource group for the Compute Fleet and then select Delete.

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