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Azure PowerShell Quick Start Guide

By : Thomas Mitchell
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Azure PowerShell Quick Start Guide

By: Thomas Mitchell

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

Tagging with PowerShell

Tags in Azure provide admins with a way of organizing Azure resources logically, using user-defined properties. Tags can be applied to entire resource groups or to resources directly. Using tags allows you to select resources or resource groups from the console, web portal, PowerShell, and even through the API. Tags are commonly used to organize resources for billing and management.

Each tag consists of a name and a value. For example, many admins will tag their production resources in Azure with an Environment tag and a value of Production. Doing so allows you to identify easily and group production resources.

By using tags, you can retrieve all related resources in an Azure subscription, based on the values of the tags. Tags can be placed on Compute, Network, and Storage resources during creation, as well as after resource creation, using PowerShell....