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VMs in all clouds are always tied to specific machines. If that machine fails unexpectedly then those VMs will restart. If it is a controlled reboot (e.g. host

• clhodapp 9y ago
  On Google's cloud, at least, VMs don't get killed for planned hypervisor downtime, which is a potential differentiator for them. Of course, this should matter a lot less for workloads that have been explicitly designed run on Kubernetes...
• brianwawok 9y ago
  Well, at least in Google Cloud for planned updates you can get your VM host migrated and not lose a Node due to a planned maintenance. I am not aware if Azure supports this, but my guess is they do not.
  • rarudduck 9y ago
    They (Azure) do for most operations. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/manage-availability https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/wind... I've found actual reboots to be rare - the exception being the recent Spectre / Meltdown patching.