Creating a Multitier Network Using CLI and Powershell

Azure CLI

• Installation
• VisualStudioCode
• Azure CLI Extension
• Navigate to Reference Section

Steps

• Launch a Powershell or other terminal and execute the following

az login 
# Enter your azure credentials 

• Create a Virtual Network and one management subnet

# Create a resource group
az group create --location 'CentralUs' --name 'multitier'

# Create a Virtual Network
az network vnet create --name 'multitiervnet' --resource-group 'multitier' --address-prefixes '10.10.0.0/16' --location 'CentralUs' --subnet-name 'mangement' --subnet-prefixes '10.10.0.0/24'

Azure PowerShell

• Installation
• Launch Powershell as admin and Execute

Install-Module -Name Az -AllowClobber -Scope AllUsers

• Re-Launch PowerShell and execute

# Connect to Azure with an interactive dialog for sign-in
Connect-AzAccount

• Cmdlets will be in form of ‘<verb>-Az<noun>’
• Searching Resource Group Commands

Get-Command '*-AzResource*'
# From the output choose a command
Get-Help New-AzResourceGroup -Online

• Navigate to Reference Section in Azure Powershell documentation
• Lets create a resource group in Powershell

# Create a Resource Group and store the result object in a variable
$resg = New-AzResourceGroup -Name 'multitierps' -Location 'CentralUs'