A quick PowerShell script to start using Azure RM Infrastructure

Are you or your team using the Azure Portal? But everyone say use PowerShell? Or perhaps JSON?

Let’s start with a PowerShell Script, that will let you connect to Azure Resource Manager (AzureRM).

#Get connected to your Azure Subscription.

#Install Azure RM Commands.
Install-Module AzureRM

#Import Azure RM Commands.
Import-Module AzureRM

#Login to AzureRM.
Login-AzureRmAccount

#See which Azure RM Subscription your currently managin.
Get-AzureRmContext

#Get a view of all Azure RM Subscriptions your account is administrating.
Get-AzureRmSubscription

#Select a subscription by copying the SubscriptionName.
Get-AzureRmSubscription –SubscriptionName "MSDN-plattformer" | Select-AzureRmSubscription

https://github.com/RoyApalnes/Microsoft/blob/master/ConnectoToAzureRMSub.ps1

Then we need to create the initial structure, which will be reused and going forward is static values. Basically we create a Resource Group, a Storage Account, a Virtual Subnet and a Virtual Network.

#Variables

#Datacenter location
$locName = "northeurope"
#Resource Group Name
$rgName = "DEMO"
#Storage Account
$stName = "itiscloudydemo01"
#Virtual subnet
$subnetName = "itiscloudydemo"
#Virtual network
$vnetName = "itiscloudydemo"

#Create a Resource Group
New-AzureRmResourceGroup -Name $rgName -Location $locName -Force
#Create a Storage Account
$storageAcc = New-AzureRmStorageAccount -ResourceGroupName $rgName -Name $stName -SkuName "Standard_GRS" -Kind "Storage" -Location $locName
#Create a Virtual Network Subnet
$singleSubnet = New-AzureRmVirtualNetworkSubnetConfig -Name $subnetName -AddressPrefix 10.0.0.0/24
#Create a Virtual Network
$vnet = New-AzureRmVirtualNetwork -Name $vnetName -ResourceGroupName $rgName -Location $locName -AddressPrefix 10.0.0.0/16 -Subnet $singleSubnet

https://github.com/RoyApalnes/Microsoft/blob/master/StartAzureInfrastructure.ps1

See my next post with two PowerShell scripts to manage new Azure RM Virtual Machines, either by editing the PowerShell variables or being prompted for input to the variables.