Getting started with Microsoft Azure PowerShell
I will be writing a series of blogs around Microsoft Azure & Hybrid Cloud. As a quick start, wanted to write up on how to setup our machines with PowerShell to work with Microsoft Azure.
Setup machine with Microsoft Azure PowerShell
- If you haven’t installed Web Platform Installer, you can download and install it from http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx
- Download and install ‘Microsoft Azure PowerShell’ from Web Platform Installer. If you do not find that in ‘Spotlight’ you can perform a search for ‘Microsoft Azure PowerShell’
Set your default subscription and storage account
Download Azure Publish Settings file , configure default subscription and configure default storage account. There is a very good blog article from Michael Walsham explaining this step-by-step. I strongly recommend you read through that post. There is one minor change in Azure PowerShell cmdlet usage (based on a cmdlet update from Microsoft), from the post you see in the blog. I have written a PowerShell script with minor updates, which you can download from here.
Script Downloads
https://gist.github.com/Manesh-R/9ba344e08ebf7e6743a9
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| # Ref: https://manesh.me/2015/02/05/getting-started-with-microsoft-azure-powershell/ | |
| # Step 0: Define all variable values | |
| $publishSettingsFile = "C:\Users\Manesh\Documents\AzureSubscriptions.publishsettings"; | |
| $location = "West US"; | |
| $subscriptionName = "Visual Studio Premium with MSDN"; | |
| # Sometimes, you might have multiple MSDN subscriptions | |
| # If someone else add you as a co-admin on their MSDN subscription etc. | |
| # If so, choose the subscription Id option | |
| $subscriptionId = $null; | |
| # Sometimes, this account is created by someone else. | |
| # So if the script fails, you might want to change this. | |
| $storageAccountName = "manesh"; | |
| # Step 1: Import Azure Publish Settings File | |
| Import-AzurePublishSettingsFile $publishSettingsFile | |
| # Step 2: Set current subscription | |
| Get-AzureSubscription | |
| if ($subscriptionId -eq $null) { | |
| Select-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionName $subscriptionName -Current | |
| } else { | |
| Select-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionId $subscriptionId -Current | |
| } | |
| # Display only current subscription | |
| Get-AzureSubscription -Current | |
| # Step 3: Set current storage account | |
| $isStorageGood = $false; | |
| try { | |
| Get-AzureStorageAccount –StorageAccountName $storageAccountName -ErrorAction Stop | Out-Null | |
| if ((Get-AzureStorageAccount –StorageAccountName $storageAccountName).Location -eq $location) { | |
| $isStorageGood = $true; | |
| Write-Host "'$storageAccountName' storage account already exists, skipping creation" | |
| } else { | |
| Write-Host "'$storageAccountName' storage account already exists, but in a different location. Try another storage." | |
| } | |
| } | |
| catch { | |
| if (!(Test-AzureName -Storage $storageAccountName)) { | |
| Write-Host "Creating Storage Account $storageAccountName" | |
| New-AzureStorageAccount -StorageAccountName $storageAccountName -Location $location | |
| $isStorageGood = $true; | |
| } | |
| else { | |
| Write-Host "'$storageAccountName' storage account already exists and is owned by some other subscription. Try a different name." | |
| } | |
| } | |
| if ($isStorageGood) { | |
| if ($subscriptionId -eq $null) { | |
| Set-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionName $subscriptionName -CurrentStorageAccountName $storageAccountName | |
| } else { | |
| Set-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionId $subscriptionId -CurrentStorageAccountName $storageAccountName | |
| } | |
| # You should see the provided subscription and storage account name while executing following command | |
| Get-AzureSubscription -Current | |
| Write-Host "All is well" | |
| } else { | |
| Write-Host "Try a different storage account name and re-run the script" | |
| } |
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Posted on 2015/02/05, in Microsoft Azure and tagged IaaS, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure PowerShell, PowerShell. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.
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