Microsoft announces automatic update system for virtual machine pools

The use of the cloud has given us great advantages, but at the same time it has caused large companies real headaches in order to offer minimum quality standards in the services they provide. Whether for security, functionality, ease of use... living and helping yourself from the cloud requires an extra effort

And that's what they're doing at Microsoft when it comes to improving and streamlining the management of virtual machines connected to the cloud. Above all, now that security is called into question more than it would be desirable.It is about to avoid as much as possible human intervention when keeping the equipment updated

Azure by Microsoft, is the desire and the result of the Redmond people's commitment to the cloud. A way to have the infrastructures that the market needs in a flexible way, be they physical servers, networks, virtual machines, development platforms, storage... and thus virtual machine scale sets arrived, which are an Azure Compute resource that make that can be used to deploy and manage a set of identical virtual machines

And with this new advance by Microsoft, it seeks to prevent for a version of an operating system to be updated with the necessary patches to to face threats and correct errors, the human being has to intervene.

Manual updating of hundreds to thousands of virtual machines can become history with the solution that Microsoft has added to its Preview program.An enhancement that enables automatic updating of operating system images for virtual machines in a more efficient way. This saves time and significant economic cost

This will automatically apply the latest operating system image to the set of virtual machines. In this sense, Microsoft will initially support computers based on Windows Server 2016 Datacenter, Windows Server 2012 Datacenter R2 and Ubuntu Server 16.04-LTS

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