Working with Azure PowerShell ¶

Prerequisites¶

You'll need to install a few Az modules to use this Notebook.

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Install-Module Az.Compute,Az.Resources,Az.KeyVault -Force

First connect to your Azure account.

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Connect-AzAccount

If your account contains more than one active subscription the first one will be selected for further use. To select another subscription, use Set-AzContext.

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$myAzSubscription = "My Subscription"
Set-AzContext -Subscription $myAzSubscription

Setup common variables¶

These variables are used throughout the notebook so set them at the top so they can be used everywhere.

NOTE: This also means that all you have to do is change the vaules here and the Notebook will just work still (so long as the values are correct)

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# Used all over
$RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME = 'JupyterTest'
$LOCATION = 'East US 2'

# Resource names
$VAULT_NAME = 'myAzVault'
$VM_NAME = 'myAzVM'

# Single instances
$VM_USERNAME = 'azureuser'
$VM_IMAGE = 'UbuntuLTS'

Create a resource group with the `New-AzResourceGroup` command¶

An Azure resource group is a logical container into which Azure resources are deployed and managed. A resource group must be created before a virtual machine. In the following example, a resource group named myResourceGroupVM is created in the EastUS region:

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New-AzResourceGroup -ResourceGroupName $RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME -Location $LOCATION

Create a KeyVault in Azure¶

We will use this to store the password to our VM for future use.

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New-AzKeyVault -Name $VAULT_NAME -Location $LOCATION -ResourceGroupName $RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME

Creating a new Azure VM¶

Generate a secret that will be used for the password¶

Note: You should switch this to key-based authentication or something else in the future, but this is fine for the purposes of this demo.

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$secret = [System.IO.Path]::GetRandomFileName() | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText

Store the secret in KeyVault for future usage¶

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Set-AzKeyVaultSecret -VaultName $VAULT_NAME -SecretValue $secret -Name VMpassword

Generate a credential object for the `New-AzVM` command¶

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$cred = [pscredential]::new($VM_USERNAME, $secret)

Create our VM¶

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$splat = @{
    Image = $VM_IMAGE
    Credential = $cred
    ResourceGroupName = $RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME
    Location = $LOCATION
    Name = $VM_NAME
}

New-AzVM @splat

At this point you should be able to run Get-AzVM and your VM should show up.

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Get-AzVM -Name $VM_NAME -Status

Working with Azure PowerShell ¶

Prerequisites¶

Setup common variables¶

Create a resource group with the New-AzResourceGroup command¶

Create a KeyVault in Azure¶

Creating a new Azure VM¶

Generate a secret that will be used for the password¶

Store the secret in KeyVault for future usage¶

Generate a credential object for the New-AzVM command¶

Create our VM¶

Create a resource group with the `New-AzResourceGroup` command¶

Generate a credential object for the `New-AzVM` command¶