I was going through the Powershell support to the Azure, and while looking into the cmdlets provided by Azure PowerShell i did not found any reference for the command by which i can create new directory under my subscription.
May be I am missing something.
Can anyone tell me the exact way to achieve this programmatically (using pwoershell)?
Thanks.
We do not expose the ability to create new directories via our REST APIs or PowerShell Module.
I believe this ability is only available through our Portals, in a non-automated fashion.
Can you go into more details about your scenario, where you would need to create multiple directories in an automated fashion?
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I am working on IaC in Azure. I need to create a user group via ARM template. Is it possible to accomplish this task in this manner?
Unless something has change recently, no. You can use the MS Graph API. You can set up PowerShell Scripts to run. Etc. And if you need this as part of the pipeline, there is likely a plug in on marketplace, if keyed on pipeline.
But I am trying to understand the need for creating a new group as part of the IaC. Is this because you need it configurable for different types of installs through pipelines? In general, I don't mix security with infrastructure unless I am making a product for others to install, so just trying to make sure you are not heading down a bad road.Do you mean resource groups instead?
Is there a way to programmatically configure Azure Cloud Shell without having to launch it and have it create a new storage account and file share (or go manually configure it to use existing resources)?
I'd like to be able to have an Azure CLI script (or Terraform) create the storage account and file share for me and have Azure Cloud Shell detect these resources and use them so when the Cloud Shell button is clicked there is not configuration needed.
This is needed whenever a new account is created or the resource group that contains the Cloud Shell storage account is deleted.
I believe currently feature to programmatically configure Cloud Shell to detect and select particular storage account and file share is not supported. So I would recommend you to raise this as a feature request in this Uservoice or feedback forum.
However, IF the actual use case and requirement is - " to access the Cloud Shell (https://shell.azure.com/) without configuration need or at least by configuring only one time per subscription (that may be done manually)", THEN this is the feature request for the same which is already raised in Uservoice or feedback forum. So if interested, I recommend you to upvote it and other features that are of interest.
In general, Azure feature or product team would check feasibility of a feature request, triage it, prioritize against existing feature backlog, add in roadmap as appropriate and would announce and/or update the related Azure document once a feature request is addressed.
I want to create an automation demo for customers, where I have a single page web app with a couple of input text fields, and the inputs get used as parameters in the creation of an Azure Resource Group and VNETs/VMs/etc within the Resource Group.
I can do all of the above with Azure CLI (v2.0) on my laptop, and also from CLI using a Azure CLI in a bash script on a Linux server, but I wanted something web-based. I considered standing up a web page on the Linux server to call the bash script, but that seems a bit painful (especially with permissions etc). I also thought maybe Azure Functions could provide a solution to host the single web page app and call the Azure CLI commands, but I've never used Functions before so not sure if Functions can do this; the description of Functions' capabilities aren't clear to me.
What is the best way to achieve what I'm after, quickly?
Note I'm not a developer, I'm a network engineer, so whilst I can hack around in a few languages from Notepad and vi, I'm not looking to build something in a full SDK, or have something with enterprise-level reliability, version control, etc. This is really all about proof of concept and web-based demo of something I already have in Azure CLI / bash script.
Thanks in advance :-)
For a quick and relatively dirty way, you could create an Azure Runbook (using the scripts created from the Azure Portal) and invoke using the Automation API This could use the scripts (or close to) what you already have.
When you roll out a new service in Azure you get the option now to download the Automation Script, you can then follow this article to deploy the generated script via a runbook
To follow on from Jamie's idea.
You can code your Azure Cli script (or Powershell) into an Azure Automation Runbook, you can have variables etc to access it with.
You can then attach a webhook to that runbook, and call it from a standard HTTP Post request.
Meaning you could create a HTML form, that would pass whatever variables are required and build whatever is needed.
The downside of this would be that you will be creating it on your infrastructure.
You can have a solution that will deploy to someone else's infrastructure with a deploy to Azure button
This lets you host it in Github etc, it takes a bit more knowledge to make it work but saves your account dollars!
Azure resource manager power shell or JSON template to create Virtual machine in existing Virtual network and Storage account.
You can of course use either.
Json Template is basically what Azure Resource Manager (ARM) uses anway. Bonus: you can run your ARM templates from PowerShell :)
The question you want to ask is:
Will I be doing this repeatedly?
If so, ARM is the natural answer. You create a resource in a file that you can version control and use to repeated deployments.
If it's only a one-time thing, then PowerShell or Azure Command Line Tools are more than enough.
At first steps JSON templates may confuse you, because files are large (hundreds of lines). But templates are really readable and you can easy configure your architecture. Also there is a chance to make a syntax mistake or to violate existing restrictions - try to use smart editor.
For example, VS Code Editor.
PowerShell and multi-platform tool Azure CLI help you make the same requests to subscriptions but contain helpers, hints and validators which would help you easy set correct options.
I created my custom Azure Worker Role. This code is ready. What I'm trying to do is to create instances of this Azure-Worker-Role in specific Azure data-center, at the requested time. For example, I'm want to send command to Azure to create 10 instances of my Custom-Azure-Worker in West-Europe data-center - now.
It's important to pass this command also a parameter that will be the input problem to be solved by my workers.
I pretty sure that this automation task must be covered by Azure automation. Is that true? Looking for more information\directions.
Thank you!
You can use Azure Management Libraries to create and deploy your cloud services from C# code. Just create application (eg ASP.NET MVC) to manage your cloud services by sending commands and deploy it also on Azure or even keep it locally.
See this article for more details http://www.bradygaster.com/post/getting-started-with-the-windows-azure-management-libraries
You'll want to leverage the service management API to spin up and tear down roles. It can be accessed any number of way, including directly via REST.
RE: providing a parameter to the worker role, one option is leveraging the cloud service configuration file that you provide with the cspkg. Define specifics for the role there.
Depending on the complexity or simplicity of your scenario, you may also get away with simply having a table in storage that you personally poke with desired configuration values and that the worker can read to retrieve.
The Azure Automation service should definitely be able to automate this task for you. Anything you can script via the Azure PowerShell module, can be imported as a runbook and called manually, via a third-party system, or on a schedule in Azure Automation.
Whether there is an existing runbook for the specific task you are looking to automate, I do not know. But Azure Automation has a gallery of community-contributed content for many common processes, so this may be available there.