AgitatedDove14 apologies, I read my previous message, I think perhaps it came across as way more passive aggressive than I was intending. Amazing how missing a few words from a sentence can change the entire meaning! 😀

What I meant to say was, it's going to be a busy few months for us whilst we move house, so I didn't want to say I'd contribute and then disappear for two months!

I've been working on a Azure load balancer example, heavily based on the AWS example. The load balancing part is relatively straight forward using the Azure Python SDK, which can connect to an existing Virtual Machine Scale Set, and request new nodes to be scaled in or out. but unfortunately I cannot get the user permissions yet on our Azure subscription for adding an AD app and service principal. This is the way that Azure allows authentication of a service, and it does this by giving an AD app and service principal certain user roles, which allow it to control resources. In the case of the load balancer, it is needed to allow the load balancer to connect to a Virtual Machine Scale Set and scale the cluster up or down. I've got the bash script for the node setup more less right I think, but without those access permissions I am not able to test it all together. Of course, it needs to be executed on the server head so that the ClearML credentials can be passed, but that server also needs the credentials for connecting with the Azure system to control the cluster.