Azure PowerShell – Knowing the basics and starting with few important CMDLETS

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Today I will share bit about Azure PowerShell

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Azure PowerShell :

• Azure PowerShell is a set of cmdlets for managing Azure resources directly from the PowerShell command line
• Azure PowerShell written in .Net standard
• Azure PowerShell works with PowerShell 5.1 on Windows, PowerShell 7.0.6 LTS and PowerShell 7.1.3 or higher on all platforms

PowerShell CMDLET :

• PowerShell CMDLET is PowerShell command
• A CMDLET is a command for single purpose
• Cmdlets follow a verb-noun naming convention; for example, Get-Process
• The Get-Help cmdlet displays the help file for any cmdlet. For example, we could get help on the Get-Module cmdlet with the following statement:

Get-Help Get-Module -detailed

PowerShell Module :

• CMDLETS comes with PowerShell Module
• A PowerShell Module is a DLL which contains the code to process each available cmdlet
• In PowerShell we load CMDLET by loading the respective module
• Using “Get-Module” we can get list of loaded modules

Get-Module

Az module

• Az is Azure PowerShell module
• Az module contains all the CMDLETS to work with Azure features
• With Az PowerShell module we can work with almost all the resources of Azure
• We could install Az module using Install-Module CMDLET

Install-Module -Name Az

• The above CMDLET will install the Az module for all users
• If Azure module is already installed we can update latest version by using Update-Module CMDLET

Update-Module -Name Az

To connect Azure Subscription – “Connect-AzAccount” – prompts for Azure credentials and connects to Azure subscription

Connect-AzAccount

To get all list of all subscriptions – Get-AzSubscription

Get-AzSubscription

To know the current Azure Subscription we use Get-AzContext

Get-AzContext

To change the current Azure subscription we will use – Select-AzSubscription

Select-AzSubscription -SubscriptionId <Subscription ID>

To fetch all list of resource groups in active subscription

Get-AzResourceGroup

Creating new resource group

New-AzResourceGroup -Name <name> -Location <location>

To create new VM

New-AzVm -ResourceGroupName "KnowledgeJunctionResourceGroup" -Name "KnowledgeJunction" -Image "UbuntuLTSKnowledgeJunction" -Credential <credentials object> -Location <location>

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