[Service Fabric] Auto-scaling your VMSS

In this article from his blog, Premier Developer consultant Larry Wall discusses building an ARM template that configures auto-scaling on a virtual machine scale set (VMSS).

Like most people, whenever I need to build an ARM template to do something with Service Fabric, I'm browsing around Github or where ever else I can find the bits and pieces of JSON that I need.

I was recently working on a project where they needed 3 things:

1. They wanted their Service Fabric cluster to use managed disks instead of Azure Storage accounts.
2. They wanted to have auto-scaling setup for their virtual machine scale set (VMSS). In this case, we were using a CPU rule
3. They had a stateless service where they wanted to register their service event source to output logging information in to the WADETWEventTable.

Continue reading on Larry’s blog here.