Azure Compute Workshop

Context

• For every activity possible, lets try to acheive using Azure CLI and Azure Powershell

Activity 1: Stop the VMs With Tag Env: Dev

• Lab Setup: Create 3 vms in Azure (free tier)
• Apply Tag
  • Env=Dev for node1
  • Env=QA for node2
  • Env=UAT for node3
    
• First Version: The changes done are Refer Here
• Improvement 1: donot deallocate if there are no vms found Refer Here
• Imporvement 2: Lets give option to the user to pass tagname and tag value Refer Here for changes
  
• Improvement 3: Created a reusable function for empty arguments passed Refer Here

Activity 2: Try Starting the VM based on tags

• Refer Here for the changes to start vms

Activity 3: Get all the resources with tag Env:Dev

• az resource list --tag "Env=Dev"
• if the resource type is VM deallocate and if the resource type is storage account delete

az resource list

Quick Commands

• Get all the locations
• Using Azure Cli with bash Refer Here
• Powershell has cmd-lets which will be in the form of verb-noun

Get-Process

• Powershell Operators
• Azure Powershell:
  • <verb>-Az<Noun>
  • installation Refer Here
  • Connection Connect-AzAccount
  • Filter output Refer Here
  • Format Output Refer Here
  • Quick starts with powershell Refer Here
  • Refer Here
• Activity 1 in Powershell

$vms=Get-AzResource -Tag @{ Env='UAT'} -ResourceType 'Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines'
foreach ($vm in $vms) {

    Write-Host "Stopping Vm in Resource group $vm.ResourceGroupName and name $vm.Name"
    Stop-AzVM -Id $vm.Id
}

Azure VM Automatic Updates

• Azure Automation Docs Refer Here
  
• Create an ubuntu 18 vm and windows 2016 vm
• Lets create Azure Automation Account Refer Here
• Patching Azure VMS Refer Here