Moving from Azure VMs to Azure VM Scale Sets – Runtime Instance Configuration

In my previous post I covered how you can move from deploying a solution to pre-provisioned Virtual Machines (VMs) in Azure to a process that allows you to create a custom VM Image that you deploy into VM Scale Sets (VMSS) in Azure.

As I alluded to in that post, one item we will need to take care of in order to truly move to a VMSS approach using a VM image is to remove any local static configuration data we might bake into our solution.

There are a range of options you can move to when going down this path, from solutions you custom build to running services such as Hashicorp’s Consul.

The environment I’m running in is fairly simple, so I decided to focus on a simple custom build. The remainder of this post is covering the approach I’ve used to build a solution that works for…