'Orchestration of on-demand jobs on Azure cloud

I am facing the following problem: I need to execute on-demand long running workers on Azure VMs. These workers are wrapped in a docker image.

So I looked at what Azure is offering and I seem to have the following two options:

  1. Use a VM with docker-compose. This means I need to be able to programatically start a VM, run the docker image on it, and then shutdown the VM (the specs we use are quite expensive and we can't let it run indefinitely). However this means writing orchestration logic ourselves. Is there a service that maybe we could use to make life easier?

  2. Setting up a k8s cluster. However, I am not sure how pricing works here. Would I be able to add the type of the VMs we use to the cluster, and then use the k8s API to start on-demand containers? How would I get priced in this case?

azuredockerazure-aksazure-vm


Sources

This article follows the attribution requirements of Stack Overflow and is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Source: Stack Overflow

Solution Source

Related Questions