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My question is, are the number of parallel DevOps jobs charged per-second, per-minute, or only per month?

Especially when evaluating setups (we're in the process of migrating from a TeamCity rig), we try different configurations of cloud-hosted vs self-hosted agents, and compare performance vs maintenance work and pricing.

So, say we use 15 cloud-hosted build agents for a week, and then 15 on-prem ones the next week, and then scale back to 2-3 of each for the rest of the month, will we be charged a full month for both 15 on-prem and 15 cloud agents, or do you divide the charge in sub-months, so that we could get charged for 1/4 of a month for each of the 15 on-prem and cloud-hosted agents?

It's difficult to tell from the documentation. Azure Support told me on Twitter to ask in the MSDN forums, here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/263527/per-month-or-per-minute-billing-of-azure-devops-pi.html

But, then I found this answer, which says that DevOps is no longer suppoerted on there: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/72cfd507-06a9-4a43-82d5-58b1eb48df56/azure-devops-pipelines-pricing-and-usage-running-on-deployment-groups?forum=AzureStack

I discovered that I can integrate Application Security Groups (ASG) into a Network Interface when using the azurestack resource provider, but I cannot do so when using the azurerm resource provider.

I do not understand why I cannot. I actually do not understand the difference between Azure Stack and Azure RM. This article suggests that Azure Stack is for hybrid deployments and Azure RM (or Azure Provider) is for pure cloud deployments.

All the previous work that I and other colleagues have done has been with azurerm. I would prefer to stick with azurerm if I could. Or, if possible, I would like to "mix and match" azurerm and azurestack, using azurestack only when I have to, like in this case. But I'd really like to know why some things are only possible with one provider, since they both should have the same offering, with respect to pure Azure services.

Ultimately, though, I am just trying to solve the problem of attaching a network interface to a VM, where the NIC has associated ASGs. I would like to do this with azurerm if possible. I can do it with azurestack, as long as azurestack is compatible with other services launched through azurerm.

I have created a function that would get me the list of resource groups within a subscriptions

I tried to reserve a static IP from Azure dashboard in multiple regions but no luck,

Here is the error

Is there a way with Pulumi to access the current stack name in order to chose which class to run when doing pulumi up?

I want to do something like that: