This presentation covers the nexr topics: - Powershell - Azure Resource Manager with Powershell SDK - Azure Automation scenarios samples and many more

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Azure PowerShell SDK.
Azure Automation.
JANUARY 13, 2016
Alex Feshchenko,
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

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AGENDA
PowerShell Basics1
Azure RM module2
Build automation with VSO3
Azure Automation4
Demo5
Q&A6

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POWERSHELL BASICS
JANUARY 13, 2016

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PowerShell
Command line and scripting language
- As interactive and composable as BASH/KSH
- As programmatic as Perl/Python/Ruby
- As production oriented as AS400 CL/VMS DCL

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Cmdlets
Verbs Nouns
Get Process
Stop Service
Start Computer
Get Help
Set Location

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PowerShell Core Scripting

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The Pipeline
o PowerShell has an extremely powerful pipeline that
works unlike anything that’s really been done before
o It carries the output of one command to the input of
the next… but it does so in an amazingly flexible way
o If you can master the pipeline (and the help system
helps!)

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Pipeline Example

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Objects
• You may have heard that PowerShell is an object-oriented
shell
• People make a big deal of this because it enables a lot…
but conceptually it’s pretty simple
• Ever see an Excel spreadsheet? It’s just a data structure,
right? Well, that’s all objects are. Data structures, in
memory.
• Every PowerShell command (well, most) produces objects…
and PowerShell will even show you everything about them

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Directly Using .NET Resources
 Pre-loaded assemblies
[AppDomain]::CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies()
[AppDomain]::CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies() | `
ForEach-Object `
{ if ($_.GlobalAssemblyCache){ $_.Location.ToString().Split("")[4]}}
System
System.Drawing
System.Xml
System.Configuration
System.Management.Automation
Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Utility
Microsoft.PowerShell.ConsoleHost
Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Management
Microsoft.PowerShell.Security
System.Web.Services

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Creating An Instance

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Getting Help in PowerShell

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AZURE RM MODULE
JANUARY 13, 2016

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Microsoft Azure SDK
https://goo.gl/VhU2cO

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Logging in to Azure Account
PS C:> Login-AzureRmAccount

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More specific queries
PS C:> ((Get-AzureRmResourceProvider -ProviderNamespace Microsoft.Web).ResourceTypes |
Where-Object ResourceTypeName -eq sites).Locations
Brazil South
East Asia
East US
Japan East
Japan West
North Central US
North Europe
South Central US
West Europe
West US
Southeast Asia
Central US
East US 2

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Create a resource group
PS C:> New-AzureRmResourceGroup -Name TestRG1 -Location "West US"
ResourceGroupName : TestRG1
Location : westus
ProvisioningState : Succeeded
Tags :
Permissions :
Actions NotActions
======= ==========
*
ResourceId : /subscriptions/{guid}/resourceGroups/TestRG1

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Get available API versions for the resources
PS C:> ((Get-AzureRmResourceProvider -ProviderNamespace Microsoft.Web).ResourceTypes |
Where-Object ResourceTypeName -eq sites).ApiVersions
2015-08-01
2015-07-01
2015-06-01
2015-05-01
2015-04-01
2015-02-01
2014-11-01
2014-06-01
2014-04-01-preview
2014-04-01

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Deploy the template
PS C:> New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment -ResourceGroupName TestRG1 -TemplateFile
c:AzureTemplatesazuredeploy.json

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Dynamic template parameters
PS C:> New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment -ResourceGroupName TestRG1 -TemplateFile
c:AzureTemplatesazuredeploy.json -hostingPlanName freeplanwest -serverName
exampleserver -databaseName exampledata -administratorLogin exampleadmin
cmdlet New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment at command pipeline position 1
Supply values for the following parameters:
(Type !? for Help.)
administratorLoginPassword: ********

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Get information about your resource groups
PS C:>Get-AzureRmResourceGroup
Get all of the resource groups:
To get the resources in the resource group, use the Find-AzureRmResource cmdlet and its
ResourceGroupNameContains parameter
PS C:> Find-AzureRmResource -ResourceGroupNameContains TestRG1

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Modify Resource Group
PS C:> $resource = Get-AzureRmResource -ResourceName ExampleApp -ResourceGroupName
OldRG
PS C:> Move-AzureRmResource -DestinationResourceGroupName NewRG -ResourceId
$resource.ResourceId
Move resources from one group to another:
Delete resource from Resource Group:
PS C:> Remove-AzureRmResource -Name TestSite -ResourceGroupName TestRG1 -
ResourceType "Microsoft.Web/sites" -ApiVersion 2015-08-01
Delete Resource Group:
PS C:> Remove-AzureRmResourceGroup -Name TestRG1

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DEMO
JANUARY 13, 2016
DEPLOYING RESOURCES WITH ARM

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DEMO
JANUARY 13, 2016
BUILD AUTOMATION

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AZURE AUTOMATION
JANUARY 13, 2016

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What is Azure Automation?
Microsoft Azure Automation provides a way for
users to automate the manual, long-running,
error-prone, and frequently repeated tasks that
are commonly performed in a cloud and
enterprise environment. It saves time and
increases the reliability of regular
administrative tasks and even schedules them
to be automatically performed at regular
intervals

27. Azure
Monitoring
Systems
Change
Control
Systems
Anything 
Runbook Authoring in Azure:
Create runbooks to automate all aspects of
cloud operations, from deployment,
monitoring, and optimizations
Highly Available Engine:
Support requirements for scale and H/A.
Built on PowerShell Workflow. Isolation for
runbook jobs
Integration into other systems:
Import PS modules and create additional
modules and runbooks for Azure services or
to connect into 3rd party systems
Automation

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Pricing
Pricing Tiers:
• Free
• Basic

29. Patch Azure IaaS VMs without
downtime, leveraging Traffic
manager.
Enable regeneration of storage
account keys while avoiding
downtime in the application.
SQL Backup on a schedule.
Backup and restore IaaS VMs.
Deploy a VM on an Azure / On-
Premise cloud and enable
monitoring for the VM.
Deploy a new service to Azure and
configure the end points for CPU
and Memory alerts.
Deploy application from Git, run
validation tests, and swap to
production if tests pass.
Monitor SharePoint online for an
approval to update a service and
update the service once approved.
Alert on a VM then turn on
tracing, collect logs, upload to
Azure Storage and make available
in Visual Studio for
troubleshooting.
Monitor for when a new service
gets created, and configure it for
the right tracing / backup policy.
Notify users of a subscription who
have underutilized VMs and
perform remediation.
Change Control &
Provisioning

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Checkpointing
Available commands to checkpoint workflow:
• Checkpoint-Workflow
• -PSPersist $True
• PSPersistPreference = $True/$False
• Suspend-Workflow

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DEMO
JANUARY 13, 2016
AZURE AUTOMATION

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In Review
Azure Automation enables:
• Integration into Azure services and external systems
• Implement your tasks using PowerShell workflow
• Automate everything!!!!

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QUESTIONS
OCTOBER 7, 2015

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Thank you!