strategies to automate deployment and provisioning of microsoft azure

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Automation Strategies for Success in Microsoft Azure

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TODAY’S SPEAKERS

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Michael CollierPrincipal Cloud ArchitectAditi Technologies

michaelc@aditi.com@MichaelCollierwww.MichaelSCollier.com

Raghu RajagopalanPrincipal Engineering ManagerAditi Technologies

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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

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* 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

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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

•

Brewmaster• https://www.aditicloud.com/Home/Brewmaster

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Michael CollierPRINCIPLE CLOUD ARCHITECT, ADITImichaelC@aditi.com

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