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Azure PowerShell Quick Start Guide
Azure PowerShell Quick Start Guide

Azure PowerShell Quick Start Guide: Deploy and manage Azure virtual machines with ease

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Azure PowerShell Quick Start Guide

Working with Images

Welcome to Working with Images! Now that you've (presumably) gone through and learned some of the Azure PowerShell basics in the previous chapter, we're going to take a look at some image-centric tasks and commands that you should know how to handle as part of your day-to-day operations.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

  • Marketplace images
  • Custom images

By the end of this chapter, you should know how to deploy virtual machines from the existing images that are available on the Azure Marketplace and from custom-created images. You will even get the opportunity to practice what you've learned by workign through a hands-on exercise at the end of the chapter.

Working with Marketplace Images

Although a virtual machine can be deployed in Azure with default options, the Azure marketplace offers numerous virtual machine images that can be used to create a new virtual machine.

If you are following along, you previously deployed a virtual machine, called MyVM, using the default Windows Server 2016-Datacenter image (because you didn't choose a specific image to use). However, here, I'm going to explain how to use PowerShell to search the marketplace for other Windows images and how to deploy a new virtual machine in Azure using one of those images.

Before performing any exercises in this section, run the following command to recreate the VMLab resource group if you've deleted it:

New-AzureRmResourceGroup -ResourceGroupName "VMLab" -Location "EastUS"

The preceding command should generate the output you see...

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...

Summary

Good job! You've now completed this chapter. In this chapter, we covered Marketplace Images and Custom Images.

You learned how to deploy virtual machines from images in the Marketplace and also how to deploy virtual machines with custom images.

It's time to move on to the next chapter, where we will cover virtual disks.

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Key benefits

  • Deploy and manage Azure virtual machines with PowerShell commands.
  • Get to grips with core concept of Azure PowerShell such as working with images and disks, custom script extension, high availability and more.
  • Leverage hands-on projects to successfully apply what you learned through the course of this book.

Description

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.

Who is this book for?

This book is intended for IT professionals who are responsible for managing Azure virtual machines. No prior PowerShell or Azure experience is needed.

What you will learn

  • Manage virtual machines with PowerShell
  • Resize a virtual machine with PowerShell
  • Create OS disk snapshots via PowerShell
  • Deploy new virtual machines from snapshots via PowerShell
  • Provision and attach data disks to a virtual machine via PowerShell
  • Load balance virtual machines with PowerShell
  • Manage virtual machines with custom script extensions

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Well Structured and well-written book. However, It's quite clear early on that the target group for this book is your entry-level engineer. I also found some of the cmdlets used need updating, that said, It's been a good refresher for me as it would for anyone that's spent too much time away from Powershell.
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