Adding a subnet with PowerShell

When creating an Azure virtual network with PowerShell, a subnet is not created in the same step and requires an additional command to be executed separately.

Getting ready

Before creating a subnet, we need to collect information about the virtual network that the new subnet will be associated with. The parameters that need to be provided are the name of the virtual network and the resource group that the virtual network is located in:

$VirtualNetwork = Get-AzVirtualNetwork -Name 'Packt-Script' -ResourceGroupName 'Packt-Networking-Script'

How to do it…

1. To add a subnet to the virtual network using PowerShell, we need to execute a command and provide the name and address prefix. The address prefix is again in CIDR format:

   Add-AzVirtualNetworkSubnetConfig -Name FrontEnd -AddressPrefix 10.11.0.0/24 -VirtualNetwork $VirtualNetwork

2. We need to confirm these changes by executing the following command:

   $VirtualNetwork...