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Oh my god the web UX, how did I forget about that: for the life of me I cannot figure out why they make all the interfaces scroll sideways. Why? Who does that?
by FridgeSeal 6y ago
Oh my god the web UX, how did I forget about that: for the life of me I cannot figure out why they make all the interfaces scroll sideways. Why? Who does that?
Docs being hard to read and inconsistent with reality is a big point. My favourite mismatch is the storage classes one: it turns out there's actually 2 different grades of SSD available, but their examples and docs only mention premium SSD's. I only discovered "normal" SSD because they happen to auto-create a storage class with them in your Kubernetes cluster. The adventure to figure out whether you can attach a premium SSD to an instance is a whole new ball game - trying to find which instances _actually_ allow you to attach them is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Why are they so difficult about it? AWS is like "you want an EBS volume of type io1? There you go, done". Azure: "oh no, you _can't_ have premium ssd. Because reasons".
- arethuza 6y agoI thought the sideways scrolling (which was pretty weird) was only on the "old" Azure Portal - I'm not aware of it bothering me on the current Portal.
- ahoka 6y agoActually there are three kind of SSD storage types in Azure: Standard, Premium and Ultra. I’m assuming that you need to provision an ‘s’ VM because the regular instances lack the connectivity for the faster storage, but that’s just guessing.
- FridgeSeal 6y agoOh I forget about the ultra ones. I found a few instance types when I went looking, but their interface does not make it easy to figure out which ones are premium eligible, but I do remember the price going up not-insignificantly for a premium capable machine, which feels about like double-dipping if you’re also paying extra for the SSD.