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)
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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
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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
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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
