automating windows azure

Ido FlatowSenior Architect

Microsoft MVPSELA Group

Automating Windows Azure

Because the Management Portal is so 2012

@idoFLATOWhttp://bit.ly/flatow-blog

This presentation:http://sdrv.ms/

13HplxU

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AUTOMATING WINDOWS AZURE

ABOUT ME

Senior architect, Sela Group Co-author of:

Developing Windows Azure and Web Services – Microsoft official course

WCF 4 – Microsoft official course

Pro .NET Performance – Apress

Microsoft MVP Focus on server, services, and cloud

technologies Manager of the Israeli Web Developers User

Group



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DEPLOYMENT SCENARIOS

New product version/build Creating new environments (dev, test,

staging) Deploying to new data centers Provisioning components for new tenants

(multitenant applications) Installing entire system using customer’s

subscription Disaster recovery



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WE NEED AUTOMATION BECAUSE

The checklist becomes annoying after the third time

We miss a step during each and every deployment

Someone will eventually need to update the deployment instructions (but not me!)

Five VMs done, 45 to go We want to go home before dawn



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WE NEED AUTOMATION BECAUSE

We just want something to double-click so

we can go home on time!



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HOW STUFF WORKS

HTTP Management APIs



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HOW STUFF WORKS



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HOW STUFF WORKS

HTTP Management APIs HTTPS

x.509 Client Cert.

XML



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WHAT CAN WE AUTOMATE?

Web Sites Virtual Machines Mobile Services Cloud Services

SQL Database Storage

Media Services Service Bus

Virtual Network Traffic Manager

Locations Affinity Groups Certificates

SQL ReportingHDInsight Recovery Services

Active Directory CDN

AlertsLinked Resources

Has HTTP APIs No HTTP APIs



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HOW TO AUTOMATE



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COMMAND LINE TOOLSCommand Line Interface (CLI) Runs on Windows, Mac, and

Linux

Written in Node.js

Commands can return JSON

Scripting with: Linux tools, such as grep,

awk, and sed

Javascript with Azure-scripty (node-based)

PowerShell Cmdlets Run only on Windows

Larger toolset

Commands return .NET objects

Scripting with PowerShell piping

PowerShell scripts



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THE BASICS:AZURE ACCOUNTS

Get-AzurePublishSettingsFile

Import-AzurePublishSettingsFile $pathToPublishSettingsFile

# Or manually set the subscriptionSet-AzureSubscription -subscriptionname $name -certificate $cert -subscriptionid $id

azure account download

azure account import <pathToPublishSettingsFile>



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THE BASICS:WEB SITES & CLOUD SERVICES

New-AzureWebsite -Name $name -Location "East US“

New-AzureService -ServiceName $name -Location “East US“

azure site create --location "East US" <Name>

azure service create --location "East US" <Name>



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THE BASICS:VIRTUAL MACHINES

$image = Get-AzureVMImage | ? {$_.ImageFamily -like '*2012*Datacenter'} | sort $_.PublishedDate | select –first 1

New-AzureQuickVM -Windows -Name $name -Location "East US" -ImageName $image.ImageName -ServiceName $cloudServiceName -AdminUsername myAdmin -Password $password

image=$(azure vm image list | grep 'Windows-Server-2012-Datacenter-201308.01' | awk '{print ($2)}')

azure vm create $name $image administrator $pass --location "East US" -r



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VIRTUAL MACHINESWITH AZURE-SCRIPTY

var scripty = require('azure-scripty');

scripty.invoke('vm image list', function(err, results) {

var imageName = results[0].Name;

cmd = {

command: 'vm create',

rdp: true,

positional: [process.argv[2],imageName, 'administrator',

process.argv[3]],

location: '"' + process.argv[4] + '"'};

scripty.invoke(cmd);

});node createVM.js myNewVM mypassword ‘East US’



SUPPORTED SERVICES


Service Bus

HDInsight

Web Sites Virtual Machines Cloud Services Mobile Services

Virtual Network

Affinity Groups Certificates


Service Bus

Web Sites Virtual Machines Cloud Services

Virtual Network

Affinity Groups Certificates Locations Name Test

Store Add-ons



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AUTOMATING WINDOWS AZURESeeing is Believing!



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WHAT ABOUT ALL THE REST?

Use the HTTP-based APIs Require some coding (curl, python, C#, …) Don’t forget to authenticate MSDN documentation is available

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/jj152841.aspx You are not the first one to try this

Windows Azure SDK (Python, Node, PHP, Ruby, …)

ElastaCloud Azure Fluent Management (.NET)

Windows Azure Service Management Library (.NET)

Media Services Traffic Manager VNet Gateway Management Certs. …



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RESOURCES

Too many resources for a single slide

Presentation and resources can be found here:

sdrv.ms/13HplxU

[email protected] @idoflatow http://bit.ly/flatow-blog

automating windows azure

Technology

azure accounts

location east us azure

location east us azure

http apis

web sites cloud services

http management apis

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stuff works