We should find out the best price/perf point for the most common VM sizes. Variables to test include standard/premium disks, and size since the IOPS quota is related to disk size.
Ephemeral disks can also give a good improvement and might be the best price/perf default. This work item is needed to enable ephemeral disks and has a partially completed PR attached: https://github.com/Azure/aks-engine/issues/1287
This should yield improvements in:
Time to deploy nodes - internal data is aggregated from AKS-Engine test passes
Time to deploy first workload. This could probably be a new case added to the E2E test pass that we could aggregate data from. The image pull has a disk-bound phase that increases based on the size of the image. For Windows images where 1GB+ is typical, that's a big difference.
We should find out the best price/perf point for the most common VM sizes. Variables to test include standard/premium disks, and size since the IOPS quota is related to disk size.
Ephemeral disks can also give a good improvement and might be the best price/perf default. This work item is needed to enable ephemeral disks and has a partially completed PR attached: https://github.com/Azure/aks-engine/issues/1287
This should yield improvements in: