Pluralsight: Automating Deployment and Scale of Azure IaaS Solutions

• 23 December 2016

The Need for Automation

Create templates and publish in service catalogs for someone else to deploy

• Get-Process | Sort-Object
• Get-Process | Where-Object processname -eq "notepad" | Stop-Process
• Invoke-Command -ComputerName fileserver -ScriptBlock { Get-EventLog -LogName Security -Newest 10 }

Using PowerShell with Azure

PowerShell uses “least cognitive distance” naming convention, with all commands in the form Verb-Noun format

• Get-Command -Module AzureRM.RedisCache
• Get-Command -Verb Get
• Get-Command -Noun Package - useful for nuget management (or even Get-Command -Module PackageManagement)
• Get-Module - shows the PowerShell modules currently loaded
• Get-Module -ListAvailable - available on the system (not necessarily loaded)
• Get-Module -ListAvailable | Where name -like 'microsoft*' | % { Get-Command -Module $_ }

The AzureRM module is really just a wrapper around all the AzureRM.* modules.\

Modules are loaded dynamically as and when commands are used.

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