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Azure PowerShell Quick Start Guide

By : Mitchell

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Azure PowerShell Quick Start Guide

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By: Mitchell

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Overview of this book

As an IT professional, it is important to keep up with cloud technologies and learn to manage those technologies. PowerShell is a critical tool that must be learned in order to effectively and more easily manage many Azure resources. This book is designed to teach you to leverage PowerShell to enable you to perform many day-to-day tasks in Microsoft Azure. Taking you through the basic tasks of installing Azure PowerShell and connecting to Azure, you will learn to properly connect to an Azure tenant with PowerShell. Next, you will dive into tasks such as deploying virtual machines with PowerShell, resizing them, and managing their power states with PowerShell. Then, you will learn how to complete more complex Azure tasks with PowerShell, such as deploying virtual machines from custom images, creating images from existing virtual machines, and creating and managing of data disks. Later, you will learn how to snapshot virtual machines, how to encrypt virtual machines, and how to leverage load balancers to ensure high availability with PowerShell. By the end of this book, you will have developed dozens of PowerShell skills that are invaluable in the deployment and management of Azure virtual machines.

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Getting Started

Installing Azure PowerShell

Deploying a virtual machine (VM)

Resizing a VM with PowerShell

VM power states

Basic management tasks

Summary

Working with Images

Working with Marketplace Images

Using custom images

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Working with Disks

Using Azure data disks

Snapshotting an Azure VM disk

Creating VMs from Snapshots

Encrypting virtual machine disks

Clearing the Slate

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High Availability

Leveraging availability sets

Load balancing Azure VMs

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Other Cool Stuff

Adding an NIC to a virtual machine

Tagging with PowerShell

Redeploying a virtual machine

Custom Script Extensions

Resetting an admin password

Wrapping up

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Additional learning resources

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Using custom images

So far, you've learned how to create a virtual machine, using the default image. You've also learned how to deploy a virtual machine, using a specific image from the marketplace.

Sometimes, though, a default or marketplace image just isn't sufficient for a virtual machine's deployment. An example of this in the real world would be a case where several virtual machines with a particular application installed are needed. Another example would be a case where a gold image server image is maintained so that when a virtual machine is deployed from it, the server that gets deployed is already fully patched, negating the need to spend hours patching it up to date.

Enter Custom Images.

Custom images are essentially the same as images available on the marketplace. However, custom images are created by you. By using custom images, you can deploy...