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Revise blog on AKS capacity management strategies#5484

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Updated the blog post to enhance clarity and detail on Node Auto Provisioning and Virtual Machine Node Pools in AKS. Included new sections on capacity challenges, NAP features, and best practices.

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Revise blog on AKS capacity management strategies
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Updated the blog post to enhance clarity and detail on Node Auto Provisioning and Virtual Machine Node Pools in AKS. Included new sections on capacity challenges, NAP features, and best practices.
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Pull request overview

This PR introduces a new blog post about capacity management strategies in AKS, focusing on Node Auto Provisioning (NAP) and Virtual Machine node pools as solutions to capacity challenges during cluster scaling.

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  • Added comprehensive blog post covering capacity constraints and solutions in AKS
  • Documented NAP features and how it handles capacity errors through intelligent VM SKU selection
  • Explained Virtual Machine node pools with multi-SKU support for flexible capacity management

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Refine capacity management details in blog post
868afa1 
Clarified error messages and improved explanations for capacity management. Enhanced guidance on node auto-provisioning and virtual machine node pools.
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Revise content for Node Auto Provisioning and VM Node Pools
874a978 
Updated formatting and improved clarity in the content regarding Node Auto Provisioning and Virtual Machine Node Pools. Added information on capacity management and best practices.
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Fix NAP documentation link in blog post
946109b 
Corrected the link to the NAP documentation for enabling NAP on clusters.
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Enhance documentation for NAP and VM node pools
adf8530 
Added guidance on enabling NAP and getting started with node auto provisioning and virtual machine node pools.
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I love this -- customers really need this. Thank you for creating!

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This is a great doc, thanks for putting it together Wilson! Customers really need this.

wdarko1 and others added 3 commits December 12, 2025 15:40
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Co-authored-by: Annie Bubinski <anbubin@microsoft.com>
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Revise node auto-provisioning and VM node pools docs
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Updated documentation for node auto-provisioning and virtual machine node pools, including links to relevant resources and clarifications on requirements and limitations.
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Revise NAP requirements section title
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Updated section title to include 'limitations' for clarity.
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Just a couple thoughts/suggestions. Love this, it will be super helpful for customers. Great work!

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Update Capacity Error list
f83cbaa 
Update capacity error list and resolve co-pilot comments
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Enhance blog post on AKS node provisioning
ba92bdb 
Updated the description to include best practices for compute scaling. Made minor grammatical improvements and clarified the use of NAP and virtual machine node pools.
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Add visual demo and documentation links for node provisioning
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Added a visual demo image for node auto provisioning features and updated documentation links.
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On CAS comparision

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This blog post is excellent. Valuable content here explaining the scenario and the different options

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Update recommendations for NAP and VM node pools
698e436 
Clarified guidance on when to use NAP versus virtual machine node pools by specifying the conditions for SKU selection.
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@wdarko1 wdarko1 merged commit 039f672 into Azure:master Jan 29, 2026
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