Provisioning your cluster using F# interactive

If using a locally simulated cluster (via ThespianCluster.fsx) you can ignore this tutorial. This tutorial is from the MBrace Starter Kit.

In this tutorial you learn how you can use the MBrace.Azure.Management library to provision an MBrace cluster using F# Interactive. In order to proceed, you will need to sign up for an Azure subscription. Once signed up, download your publication settings file .

Before proceeding, please go to AzureCluster.fsx and set your azure authentication data and deployment preferences. Once done, we can reload the script.

1:	`#load "AzureCluster.fsx"`

Now let's create a new cluster by calling

1:	`let deployment = Config.ProvisionCluster()`

We can track the provisioning progress of the cluster by calling

1:	`deployment.ShowInfo()`

Provisioning can take some time (approximately 5 minutes). Once done, you can now connect to your cluster as follows:

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let cluster = Config.GetCluster()

cluster.ShowWorkers()

You can now run any of the subsequent tutorials and examples in your Azure cluster.

Modifying the cluster

You can resize the cluster by calling

1:	`Config.ResizeCluster 20`

When done, it is important to make sure that the cluster has been deprovisioned

1:	`Config.DeleteCluster()`

Summary

In this tutorial, you've learned how to provision an MBrace clusters running on Azure using MBrace.Azure.Management. You are now ready to proceed with further samples to learn more about the MBrace programming model.

To learn more about provisioning, monitoring, scaling and deleting clusters using MBrace.Azure.Management see going-further/200-managing-azure-clusters.fsx.

namespace MBrace

namespace MBrace.Azure

namespace MBrace.Azure.Management

val deployment : Deployment

Full name: 0-provision-azure-cluster.deployment

Multiple items
module Config

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type Config =
  private new : unit -> Config
  static member DefaultLogger : ISystemLogger
  static member DefaultLogger : ISystemLogger with set

Full name: MBrace.Azure.Management.Config

val ProvisionCluster : unit -> Deployment

Full name: Config.ProvisionCluster

Provisions a new cluster to Azure with supplied parameters

member Deployment.ShowInfo : ?showVmInstances:bool -> unit

val cluster : AzureCluster

Full name: 0-provision-azure-cluster.cluster

val GetCluster : unit -> AzureCluster

Full name: Config.GetCluster

Connect to the cluster

member MBrace.Runtime.MBraceClient.ShowWorkers : unit -> unit

val ResizeCluster : newVmCount:int -> unit

Full name: Config.ResizeCluster

Resizes the cluster using an updated VM count

val DeleteCluster : unit -> unit

Full name: Config.DeleteCluster

Deletes an existing cluster deployment

MBrace.Core and MBrace.Azure

Provisioning your cluster using F# interactive

Modifying the cluster

Summary