Tag: Azure PowerShell

• Automate the deployment and configuration of Azure Site Recovery for Hyper-V to Azure with PowerShell.

  Azure Site Recovery service enables businesses ensure business continuity by keeping their workloads and applications running on Virtual Machines and physical servers available if a site goes down. Site Recovery replicates these workloads running on VMs and physical servers so that they remain available in a secondary location if the primary site isn’t available. It…

  jbernec

  October 4, 2017

  Azure, Azure Automation Account, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Runbook, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Windows PowerShell

  Azure PowerShell, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Virtual Machines, BCDR, Hyper-V 2016, Nested Virtualization, Recovery Services Vault, Windows Server 2016

• Automate Azure VM Deployment and Disk Encryption using PowerShell and ARM Templates..

  PowerShell helps me better understand the internal workings of complex Cloud based operations that in many instances have a lot of moving parts. Better understanding helps determine ways to automate these operations that could otherwise take much time and repetition to accomplish.I developed the following Deploy-ManagedEncryptedLinuxVM PowerShell function to automate the provisioning, installation of LAMP…

  jbernec

  September 27, 2017

  Azure, Azure Active Directory, Azure AD Service Principal, Azure Automation Account, Azure Disk Encryption, Azure Key Vault, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Runbook, Azure Windows PowerShell

  Apache, ARM Templates, Azure Disk Encryption, Azure Key Vault, Azure PowerShell, Azure VM Extension, Bash Script, CentOS 7.3, CentOS Linux, LAMP, Managed Disk, MariaDB

• Azure PowerShell Function App automates Azure Storage file sync to secondary Storage Account.

  Azure Storage Files is a sub service of Azure Storage Accounts. It offers fully managed file shares in the cloud that are accessible via the industry standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol (also known as Common Internet File System or CIFS). The cloud File shares can be mounted concurrently by cloud or on-premises deployments of…

  jbernec

  September 18, 2017

  Azure File Storage Copy, Azure Function App

  Azure File Storage, Azure File Storage Copy, Azure File Storage Sync, Azure Function App, Azure Function App Settings, Azure PowerShell, Azure Storage Accounts, Encryption Key File, Serverless Architecture

• PowerShell Function Concurrently Starts up/Shuts down Multiple Azure Resource Manager VMs.

  One of the more relevant and cost saving tasks when working in Azure Cloud is fast and efficient shutdown and startup of virtual machines. Some of the options available could be to : a) Iterate through a csv list of VMs or Resource Group  of VMs and serially shutdown or startup the VMs. This can…

  jbernec

  August 15, 2017

  Azure, Azure AD Service Principal, Azure Automation Account, Azure Key Vault, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Runbook, Azure Windows PowerShell

  Azure Automation, Azure IaaS, Azure Infrastructure as a Service, Azure PowerShell, Azure VMs, Azure VMs Shutdown, Azure VMs Startup

• Automate Azure Resource Group deployment with Azure PowerShell.

  

  I developed the following PowerShell function to automate the creation and removal of Azure Resource Groups based on Azure AD Group membership in a Demo Azure subscription. The script is deployed as a Runbook in an Azure Automation account and scheduled to run once a day. As new users are added to a designated Azure Active Directory security…

  jbernec

  June 10, 2017

  Azure, Azure Active Directory, Azure AD Service Principal, Azure Automation Account, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Runbook, Azure Windows PowerShell

  Automation Runbooks, Azure AD, Azure AD Service Principal, Azure PowerShell, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Resource Manager Portal