This document discusses PowerShell cmdlets for managing cloud resources on Microsoft Azure. It provides an overview of development tools and SDKs for Azure, describes how to use REST APIs and SDKs to manage resources from various devices and platforms. It also outlines several command line tools including PowerShell for Windows, Bash for Linux and Mac, and how they can be used to manage subscriptions, storage accounts, virtual machines, databases and other Azure resources through cmdlets. Syntax examples and references are provided for getting started with the PowerShell cmdlets.

1. POWERSHELL CMDLETS
19/02/2013
Pavlo Revenkov
EPAM Cloud Computing Competence Center
pavlo_revenkov@epam.com

2. DEVELOPMENT TOOLS
• SDK:
• .NET;
• Java;
• Node.JS;
• PHP;
• Python;
• Ruby.
REST API – ordinary HTTP requests. Unified standard for any device.
SDK – wrapper over REST API.

3. REST API
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Smartphone
Tablet Computer
Laptop

4. REST API
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Windows
Linux
Mac

5. MANAGEMENT TOOLS
• Command line tools:
• Windows (PowerShell);
• Linux (Bash);
• Mac (Bash).
REST API – ordinary HTTP requests. Unified standard for any device.
All operations can be performed from command line interface.

6. FEATURES
Command line tools allows you to manage:
• Subscriptions;
• Storage Accounts;
• Virtual Machines;
• Virtual Networks;
• Cloud Services;
• Web Sites;
• Service Bus.

7. FEATURES
Command line tools available for SQL Azure also!
You can manage:
• Databases;
• Servers;
• Firewall rules.

8. SYNTAX
Get-
New-
Add-
Remove-
Set-
Start-
Azure
Subscription
StorageAccount
VM
SqlDatabase
…
Parameters

9. SYNTAX
New-AzureStorageAccount
-StorageAccountName $storageAccount
-Location $location
Set-AzureSubscription
-SubscriptionName $subscription
-CurrentStorageAccount $storageAccount
New-AzureVM
-ServiceName $name
-Location $location

10. OUTPUT

11. POWERSHELL FEATURES
Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets supports all PowerShell features:
Variables:
$storageAccount = 'epamteststorage'
Indexes:
(Get-AzureSubscription)[0]
Properties:
$image = (Get-AzureVMImage)[0].ImageName
…and more.

12. REFERENCES
Getting started with Windows Azure Cmdlets
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj554332.aspx
Windows Azure Management Cmdlets
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj152841.aspx
Use Windows Azure Cmdlets
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj835083.aspx
Windows Azure SQL Database Cmdlets
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj585422.aspx

13. QUESTIONS?