Automating the tasks

Let's automate the manual tasks that have been implemented so far. All the automated tasks will be done for performance Traffic Manager; try to figure out how to use the other types.

Creating a Traffic Manager profile using Azure PowerShell

Creating the Traffic Manager profile using PowerShell is slightly different than the portal, because with PowerShell you need to specify some additional configurations. You can do so by running the following cmdlet:

New-AzureRmTrafficManagerProfile -Name PacktProfile -ResourceGroupName PacktPub -TrafficRoutingMethod Performance -RelativeDnsName Packt -Ttl 30 -MonitorProtocol HTTP -MonitorPort 80 -MonitorPath "/"

You can see that there is Name and RelativeDnsName. The difference between them is that the Name is the displayed name for the Traffic Manager, but RelatvieDnsName is the portion of the hostname that makes the following FQDN: http://packt.trafficmanager.net

With respect to the other parameters, you saw them earlier in the Traffic...