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What are Azure Virtual Nodes good for?
Experience Level: Senior
Tags: Azure CloudAzure Kubernetes Service
Answer
To rapidly scale application workloads in an AKS cluster, you can use virtual nodes. With virtual nodes, you have quick provisioning of pods, and only pay per second for their execution time. You don't need to wait for Kubernetes cluster autoscaler to deploy VM compute nodes to run the additional pods. Virtual nodes are only supported with Linux pods and nodes.
The virtual nodes add-on for AKS, is based on the open source project Virtual Kubelet.
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