New Azure Batch capabilities
Capabilities have been added to the Azure Batch service: Linux VM support (general availability), Linux MPI, task application packages, virtual network support for Windows VMs, and job auto-completion.
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Continuous delivery setting of Azure VMSS will be retired on 31 March 2023 – Use Azure DevOps to create pipelines
Start using Azure Pipelines by 31 March 2023 instead of Azure Portal to create Continuous delivery pipelines for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set
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