Deploying Workloads on Azure using CLI/Powershell

• So far, we have been working on Azure VM or VMSS using Portal, In typical enterprise scenarios we are expected to create/maintain deployments of our application in an automated fashion.
• Azure Has 3 popular interfaces
  • Portal
  • Command line:
    • Azure CLI
    • Azure Powershell
  • From Code:
    • Azure SDK
• Lets start exploring command line.

Azure CLI

• Azure CLI is a set of commands to create/manage azure resources.
• Azure Commands will be in the form of

az service [sub service ] [sub service ] <action> <parameters>

• The sample azure cli command ignoring parameters or arguments

az group list
az sql server create 

• Install Azure CLI: Refer Here

• Understanding JSON: Refer Here

• Refer Here for the Azure CLI documentation.

• Learning Activity 1: Using Azure CLI from cloud shell

  • Navigate to Azure Portal and launch cloud shell and switch to bash

• Learning Activity 2: Create a resource group clidemo in eastus

  • Documentation Navigation
  • Command: az group create --location 'eastus' --name 'clidemo'

• Learning Activity 3: delete the resource group created clidemo

  • Refer Here for the documentation
  • command: az group delete --name 'clidemo'

• Learning Activity 4: Now lets try to create a Linux Virtual Machine and install apache inside the vm using cli

  • Steps:
    • Create a resource group
    • Create a virutal machine
      • find the documentation
      • Using the documentation Refer Here try to come up with a command to create a ubuntu linux vm where we provide username, password, image

      • Waiting till 8:08 for you to come up with a command.

    • Open 80 port for web traffic
    • connect to virtual machine
    • Install webserver
    • Test webserver from browser/curl
    • Clean up resources
  • Productivity Tips:
    • Install the Azure CLI Tools extension to visual studio code
    • Create a file with extension .azcli

• To find the correct vm image we need to know

  • Publishers -> Offers -> Images -> Versions

  az vm image list-publishers --location eastus --output table | less
  

  • Publisher => canonical

  az vm image list-offers --location eastus --publisher canonical --output table
  

  • Offer => UbuntuServer

  az vm image list --publisher canonical --offer 'UbuntuServer' --all --output table
  

• Now create a azure vm with the command

• Commands

az group create --location 'eastus' --name 'linuxvm'
az vm create --resource-group 'linuxvm' --name 'qtwebserver' \
    --admin-username 'qtdevops' --admin-password learning@123 \
    --image 'Canonical:UbuntuServer:18.04-LTS:latest' \
    --size 'Standard_B1s'

• Exercise: Create a windows 2016 server with size standard_b1s