Synopses & Reviews
Get valuable tips and techniques for automating your cloud deployments with Azure PowerShell cmdlets, and learn how to provision Azure services on the fly. In this hands-on guide, Microsoft cloud technology expert Michael Washam shows you how to automate various management tasks and deploy solutions that are both complex and at scale.
By combining the native automation capabilities of PowerShell with Azure Infrastructure Services, these powerful cmdlets enable you to create and configure virtual machines with ease. Youll learn how to take advantage of these technologies to build complete virtual networks. If you have experience with PowerShell and Azure, youre ready to get started.
- Install and authenticate cmdlets to set up your environment
- Create and update virtual machines with Azure platform images
- Manage network endpoints, access control lists, and IP addresses
- Use cmdlets to manage and configure virtual machine storage
- Automate Azure virtual networks with hybrid technologies such as site-to-site, point-to-site, and ExpressRoute
- Dive into advanced virtual machine provisioning capabilities and management techniques
- Learn tips and tricks for deleting or moving virtual machines within (or out of) your subscription
Synopsis
Learn how to automate cloud deployments, such as web farms and SharePoint farms, and save money with pay-as-you-go compute in Windows Azure. This book shows you how to use the Windows Azure PowerShell cmdlets to automate and update most aspects of your Windows Azure Infrastructure Services deployments directly from PowerShell.
If you're looking for a guide that will teach you how to create reliable and reproducible deployments, master advanced topics in Windows Azure, and how to easily automate management tasks in Windows Azure, this is the book for you.
Synopsis
In this book you will learn how to use command line to take full control of your Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Services deployments. Discover how to master automation of Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks using PowerShell. This book will teach you the fine arts of cloud automation through practical examples of automating the provisioning and management of virtual machines, storage and of course virtual networks. Learn how to master the management of virtual machine storage including storage accounts, images and disks along with the Microsoft Azure networking stack though endpoint management and virtual network configuration. Finally, this book will teach you advanced provisioning and management techniques such as using remote PowerShell and custom script extensions to bootstrap your virtual machines.
If you're looking for a guide that will teach you how to create reliable and reproducible deployments and how to easily automate management tasks in Microsoft Azure, this is the book for you.
About the Author
Michael Washam is the CEO and Co-Founder of Opsgility - http://www.opsgility.com. Opsgility delivers instructor-led, remote-classroom and on-demand training focused on Microsoft cloud technologies. Michael has extensive history in the IT Industry where he has worked as an IT Professional, Developer, Evangelist and Program Manager. While at Microsoft as a Senior Program Manager on the Microsoft Azure Runtime Team, Michael led the release of the Microsoft Azure PowerShell Cmdlets for compute and the Microsoft Azure SDK (runtime). As a Senior Technical Evangelist Michael worked on the initial Microsoft Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service launch. In this role Michael also shipped the IaaS Microsoft Azure training kit, and the Microsoft Azure PowerShell Cmdlets for IaaS and Cloud Services.
Michael is a globally recognized speaker at conferences such as BUILD and TechEd, avid blogger, speaker, and trainer on cloud computing, debugging, and DevOps.