To deploy my infrastructure I need to deploy a VM with a custom script extension. The only purpose of the VM, is to execute the script. After the execution of the script the VM should be deleted automatically.
How can this be done?
Additional information:
This is an azure resource manager deployment
the deletion should work in the azure marketplace environment as well.
this probably means you are doing something wrong, you can use Azure Container Instance to run the script and shutdown. it should work with marketplace as well (as far as I know you can have custom container in marketplace offerings).
Marketplace only allows you to use arm templates to deploy stuff, so you cannot really do what you are asking with an arm template. well, you might be able to hack something like that with nested deployments and complete mode, but I doubt that will pass moderation in marketplace.
technically, you can make vm delete itself as a part of the script. again, not something I would advise.
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In order to store state remotely terraform has a config block that allows you point to a cloud resource. This article shows how to do it in Azure.
In a nutshell, it instructs the reader to use some AZ powershell commands to provision the resources.
Isn't the idea of Terraform to do the opposite of manual creation of resources? If this is true, what is a better way to do this? If its not, and I've misunderstood something, please clarify what it is that I missed.
Background: working on a greenfield application with nothing provisioned other than a git repo to store the tf files. Attempting to provision an azure static web site.
Its normal. To use a remote backed on azurem you need to have Azure Blob container. So it must exist first, before you can use it for a remote backed.
You don't have to use any powershell commands to create the container. Use other TF code, or Azure console, SDK or whatever you want to create it.
Terraform scaffold for Azure:
https://github.com/whiteducksoftware/terraform-scaffold-for-azure
I would like to publish an Azure Managed Application to the Azure Marketplace. Is it possible to add to the "app.zip" an own PowerShell Script, which executes some additional deployment steps besides the Azure Resource Manager Template?
The Script would invoke the arm template and handle some outputs of the Template
The way to think about these is that you can only do tasks that can be done in a template. Today, there's no way to run an arbitrary script in an ARM template.
That help?
After some research and contacting the MS Support I found two possible solutions:
Using a VM with a Custom Script Extension. Downside: VM needs long to startup and is expensive if we do not delete it afterwards.
Using a Azure Container Instance to run the script. Starts up in about 45 seconds and doesn't cost anything if we don't use it. -> Tutorial
I have a build pipeline that is working pretty well currently in Azure DevOps. As part of the pipline/build process, I create an artifact, which is published and reachable. After that, I'd like to do the following:
Create/Start Up a new VM (Windows)
Grab the now published artifact, unzip it and run the executable within
Run the integration tests
Close the VM
I've looked around the Azure documentation but cannot find much that discusses this sort of solution. Please help!
There is nothing built-in (like a readymade task create a vm), so you can use any way to create a VM in Azure. Azure powershell, Azure Cli, ARM Templates, SDK calls. whatever works for you.
You would need to open ssh\winrm to talk to that vm to deploy stuff to it. thats about it. You can find lots of examples on how to create a VM online. VSTS got tasks for Azure Powershell\Cli\ARM Tempaltes so you dont need to handle auth.
You can create a VM using ARM templates with the task 'Azure Resource Group Deployment'
With a separate task 'Powershell on target machine' you can run a powershell script on the target VM, if you put the downloading, unzipping and running of this exe in this script you should be able to perform the tasks you need.
You could also look into the 'invoke-azurermvmruncommand' powershell command, this allows you to run a powershell script in the vm. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/azurerm.compute/invoke-azurermvmruncommand?view=azurermps-6.11.0
Is there a way to run bash script on a VM before it's deleted from Azure? I know you can use CustomScriptExtension for running script when VM is created or started but I couldn't find any information about launching cleanup scripts before VM is deleted.
No, at the time of writing Azure does not support actions like this.
Depending on what you want to do, you may find it useful to subscribe to VM alerts, which can include when it is deleted. You'll have the option to call a webhook that may give you the flexibility to do what you need. Try working within the Azure portal Monitoring Blade to create your own Alert to handle this.
I have two Azure VM's running in a cloud service. They contains almost the same thing. Some TCP port's are also opened between them.
Is it possible to create a deploy package from this existing setup so that at a later time can deploy this setup in an easy way. I.e. I want to be able to do this:
1. Create deploy package from existing setup *
2. Delete whole existing cloud service including VM's
3. Deploy the package from step 1 and have everything created again.
*I can save one of the VM's to my Azure storage and use it as template for both of them if that is easier.
How to accomplish this if it is possible?
Yes, you can take what you have as a template and use it to stand up multiple silos. But in IaaS, there isn't a notion of a deployment package. There's a few things you'll need to do...
1) understand how to take an existing VM and turn it into an image
2) use Powershell or another DevOps style automation suite (Chef/Puppet/etc..) to define deploy your silo.
You seem specifically interested in how to create an image so I'd recommend using the tutorial we have published on this. http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-capture-image-windows-server/ This does of course presume you're running Windows Server. But a Linux version it can be found at: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-linux-capture-image/
The automation of a deployment depends on a great many things, so I'd suggest at a starting point, familiarizing yourself with the management API: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/ee460799.aspx
With the implementation of Resource Manager, you can now easily use JSON template to deploy and redeploy resources in Azure. There are also starter templates available - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/templates/