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Hear Michael Collier, Principal Cloud Architect at Aditi Technologies talk about the key automation strategies for success in Microsoft Azure, followed by a quick demo of Brewmaster, an automated provisioning and deployment tool for Azure.
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WELCOMETO THE WEBINAR
Automation Strategies for Success in Microsoft Azure
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TODAY’S SPEAKERS
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Michael CollierPrincipal Cloud ArchitectAditi Technologies
[email protected]@MichaelCollierwww.MichaelSCollier.com
Raghu RajagopalanPrincipal Engineering ManagerAditi Technologies
[email protected]://blog.rraghur.in
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TODAY’S WEBINAR
1/ Michael Collier: Expert Talk: Automation Strategies for Success in Microsoft Azure
2/ Raghu: Brewmaster Demo
3/ Q & A
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WHY AUTOMATION?
Azure is highly automated• Service healing• Internal resources
Time to provision full environments• Compute, storage, etc.
Deployment to multiple geographies• Change only configuration / parameters
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#1 Source of Failed Projects (IMO)
Humans Terrible at Repetitive Tasks
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A FEW OPTIONS
REST API•Service Management
•Resource Manager
Azure Management Library
PowerShell•Invoke REST•Service Management
•Resource Manager
XPlat CLI•??
Azure Automation
Brewmaster
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A FEW OPTIONS
REST API• Service Management• Resource Manager
Azure Management Library
PowerShell• Invoke REST• Service Management• Resource Manager
XPlat CLI• ??
Azure AutomationBrewmaster
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MICROSOFT AZURE MANAGEMENT LIBRARY
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MICROSOFT AZURE MANAGEMENT LIBRARY
Source: http://www.BradyGaster.com
Consistent modern libraries over the Azure REST API
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MICROSOFT AZURE MANAGEMENT LIBRARY
Source: http://www.BradyGaster.com
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MICROSOFT AZURE MANAGEMENT LIBRARY
• Scenarios• Integration Testing• Custom provisioning of services (SaaS)• Dev/Test• Resource Governance• Anything you may want to automate
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MICROSOFT AZURE MANAGEMENT LIBRARY
Source: http://www.BradyGaster.com
Get all or just the ones you need
MAML
Create Web SiteCreate Storage AccountCreate and Deploy Web Role
1. Get the MAML Libraries from NuGet
Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Management
2. Get Active Directory Authentication Library
Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory (search “ADAL”)
3. Authenticate against AAD or use ClientCredential
Use Microsoft Account or Organization
4. Use resource specific client to perform actions
StorageManagementClient, ComputeManagementClient, etc.
RECAP
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POWERSHELL
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POWERSHELL CMDLETS
Get the goods
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/
https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-tools/releases
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POWERSHELL
Use cmdlets and/or REST APIs
Ability to script complex environmentsTemplate with an XML parameters filePowerShell learning curve
Consistent DeploymentsBuild server or developer machine
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• Interactive• Azure AD
> Add-AzureAccountVERBOSE: Account "[email protected]" has been added.VERBOSE: Subscription "Cloud Practice Sales Demos" is selected as the default subscription.VERBOSE: To view all the subscriptions, please use Get-AzureSubscription.VERBOSE: To switch to a different subscription, please use Select-AzureSubscription.
* Tip – Profile data stored in C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Windows Azure Powershell
AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS
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AUTHENTICATION OPTIONS
• Programmatic• Management certificate• New –credentials option$userName = "<your organizational account user name>"
$securePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString -String "<your organizational account password>" -AsPlainText -Force
$cred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential($userName, $securePassword)
Add-AzureAccount -Credential $cred
PowerShell: Service Management
Create VMs with a custom script extensionDeploy a Cloud Service
1. Install the Azure PowerShell cmdlets
2. Select your Azure subscription
3. VMa) Get the VM template image from the Azure galleryb) Create machine administrative credentialsc) Add data disksd) Set script extension
4. Cloud Servicea) Create the Cloud Serviceb) Create the storage accountc) Deploy package to new Cloud Serviced) Wait for roles to start
RECAP
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AZURE AUTOMATION
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WHAT IS AZURE AUTOMATION?
IT process automation solution for Azure• Creation, monitoring, deployment, &
maintenance• PowerShell Workflow engine• Runbooks• Leverage existing PowerShell scripts
Azure Automation
Stop VMs on a Schedule
1. Configure your Assets
a) Create a management certificate for Azure Automation
b) Create a connection between Azure Automation and your subscription
2. Create a Runbook
a) Connect to Azure
b) Stop the VMs
3. Test Runbooks
4. Publish
RECAP
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BREWMASTER
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1. Choose Template2. Configure Parameters
3. Deploy
BREWMASTER
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BREWMASTER TEMPLATES
Pre-built templates for popular server workloadsSharePoint, AD, SQL Server Always On, ARR, ElasticSearch etc.Templates hosted on GitHub/BitbucketOpen source: https://github.com/AditiTechnologies DSC and PowerShell
Template SDKTemplate = JSON + [DSC resources/Powershell scripts].C# Fluent Syntax Builder (NuGet) for authoring your own templates
Brewmaster
Create a SQL Server AlwaysOn environment
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CHOICES . . . WHEN TO USE
MAML
• PCL (WinPhone/WinStore)
• Higher level languages
PowerShell
• DevOps• Templates• Build Servers• Quicker than portal
Azure Automation
• Schedule Tasks• Integrate with Other
Services• System Center scripts
Brewmaster
• Templates for server workloads
• Complete infrastructure stacks
• IaaS-only
RESOURCES
MAML• http://www.jeff.wilcox.name/2014/04/wamlmaml/ • http://www.bradygaster.com/post/announcing-the-general-availability-of-the-microsoft-azure-management-l
ibraries-for-net
PowerShell• Resource Manager- http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014/2-607 • http://michaelwasham.com/windows-azure-powershell-reference-guide/ • http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Deploy-a-Windows-Azure-Web-81629e04 • http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/scripts/
Azure Automation• http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/tag/azure-automation/ • http://
blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2014/04/06/step-by-step-getting-started-with-windows-azure-automation.aspx
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Brewmaster• https://www.aditicloud.com/Home/Brewmaster
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Michael CollierPRINCIPLE CLOUD ARCHITECT, [email protected]
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