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The challenges of scaling Azure resources - Azure Tutorial
From the course: Scaling Azure Deployments with Bicep
The challenges of scaling Azure resources
- [Lecturer] When building for scale, you face many hidden obstacles that can slow you down. Today I'm going to walk you through four common challenges you might meet when growing your Azure setup. Let's dive in and see what these challenges mean for you. Configuration drift happens when your system settings slowly change over time. This happens when small unplanned adjustments occur in your setup. Over time, tiny changes add up and your system no longer matches the original blueprint you designed. Imagine you set up a virtual machine in Azure using an infrastructure as code tool like ARM templates. Later, someone makes a manual change to the machine settings, for example, updating the firewall rules, but forgets to update the ARM templates. Soon, your machine looks different from what your templates describes, and when you deploy a new update, things might not work as expected. This is configuration drift in action. Dependency management is about keeping track of all the parts your…
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