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author: mayanknayar
ms.service: azure-virtual-machine-scale-sets
ms.topic: include
ms.date: 05/19/2026
ms.author: manayar
# Customer intent: As a cloud administrator, I want to deploy and customize Virtual Machine Scale Sets, so that I can efficiently manage workloads and optimize resource utilization in my existing infrastructure.
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You can deploy the preceding template by following the [Azure Resource Manager documentation](/azure/azure-resource-manager/templates/deploy-powershell).
You can start this tutorial series from the [basic scale set template article](../virtual-machine-scale-sets-mvss-start.md).
You can see how to modify the [basic scale set template](../virtual-machine-scale-sets-mvss-start.md) to [deploy the scale set into an existing virtual network](../virtual-machine-scale-sets-mvss-existing-vnet.md).
You can see how to modify the [basic scale set template](../virtual-machine-scale-sets-mvss-start.md) to [deploy the scale set with a custom image](../virtual-machine-scale-sets-mvss-custom-image.md).
You can see how to modify the [basic scale set template](../virtual-machine-scale-sets-mvss-start.md) to [deploy a Linux scale set with guest-based autoscale](../virtual-machine-scale-sets-mvss-guest-based-autoscale-linux.md).
For more information about scale sets, refer to the [scale set overview page](../overview.md).