With virtual machines node pools, Azure Kubernetes Service directly manages the provisioning and bootstrapping of every single node. Typically, when deploying a workload onto Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), each node pool can only contain one virtual machine (VM) type or SKU. Virtual Machines node pools allow the capability to add multiple VM SKUs of a similar family to a single node pool. Virtual Machines node pools allow you to specify a family of SKUs for a node pool without the need to maintain one node pool per SKU type, reducing the node pool footprint.
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