Can we only attach Azure paid VMs to our node pool of an AKS cluster, or is it possible to add our personal ITTE VM as a node in our node pool of an AKS cluster?

Hello Varsha Zutshi,

Thanks for your question.

AKS node pools must be comprised of Azure VMs​. It is not possible to add a VM outside of AKS directly to an AKS cluster node pool.

Every agent node of a system or user node pool is a VM provisioned as part of Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets and managed by the AKS cluster. See reference documents here:

https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/azure/architecture/aws-professional/eks-to-aks/node-pools#aks-nodes-and-node-pools

https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/azure/aks/concepts-clusters-workloads#nodes

Please let me know if you have further questions.

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