IncrediBuild enables you to scale infinitely to the cloud in a seamless manner. You and your development team may find yourselves in situations where you have urgent deadlines to meet and every second saved on build deployments counts. In these times of need, your best bet is to scale up the processing power by deploying cloud-based Virtual Machines. VMs running IncrediBuild Agents are easy to deploy and manage from Microsoft Azure.
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How to scale up with Azure and IncrediBuildHybrid Cloud and Pure Cloud SolutionsIncrediBuild can be used in a hybrid-cloud environment or in a pure cloud environment. The Coordinator can be placed on both an on-premise machine or on a cloud-based Virtual Machine. Thus offering you the flexibility of setting up your IncrediBuild infrastructure as you please. Azure Marketplace IncrediBuild Virtual Machine ImageIncrediBuild provides its Enterprise Edition customers with an already made IncrediBuild Virtual Machine image directly in the Azure Marketplace. This is the simplest and most straightforward way of having an IncrediBuild VM instance up and running. The steps are identical to the steps used for the custom Virtual Machine creation, except we save you the grunt work of manually installing and setting up IncrediBuild on the Virtual Machine. Custom Virtual Machine CreationOnce you are signed in to the Azure Portal, open up the marketplace and go to the Compute page, or just type in IncrediBuild in the search
Setting up an IncrediBuild Agent on your VM Setting Agents up on a VM is done the same way you would setup Agents on your local network. You have two key installation options:
Capturing a single-use Virtual Machine instance ImageInstead of manually configuring your VMs and Agents all over again, simply capture the VM instance, so you can deploy the same image whenever you need to scale up. Since single-use Virtual Machines are automatically subscribed and unsubscribed licenses whenever they are created or destroyed, you won't need to worry about manually doing it yourself for every Virtual Machine you have provisioned. IncrediBuild and Azure work extremely well together. You can scale up and add as many cores as needed by you or your development team. How to Add the IncrediBuild GUID to Azure TemplateBy September 30th 2018, Microsoft requires that customers who are using IncrediBuild inside Azure will add the IncrediBuild Azure GUID to the Azure template which is used for provisioning Azure Virtual Machines. This GUID (a unique identifier) is required in order to allow Microsoft detect that IncrediBuild is being used as part of the provisioned Azure virtual machines and contact IncrediBuild if required. Adding the IncrediBuild Azure GUID is a simple process that only requires adding an element to your Azure provisioning template:
For further information on how to use Azure templates to provision resources in Azure along with some basic Azure sample templates, follow these Microsoft links:
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