Windows Azure cloud Services Manage clouds with command line

A few weeks ago, I published a blog about Windows Azure cloud services. I'm digging up new things and experimenting with mac,pc and Linux (I prefer Ubuntu). As a fan of PowerShell and command lines for a long time, I've been looking for ways to handle transactions in text mode, as well as the creation and deployment of script sites.

There was a whole bunch of ways to access Azure using the command line-more than I thought. There is a JSON based Web API that lets those tools terminate the conversation. If you want, you can certainly call those APIs directly, but the command-line tools are really interesting.

Windows PowerShell cmdlets Mac command-line tools Linux command line tools

You can install the Mac Azure SDK installer on your Mac to get these tools and more, or, if you install Node.js on Windows or Mac or Linux, you can use node Page Manager to install Azure like this:

NPM Install Azure--global

You can also use apt or other storage commands. After that, you can run "Azure", which provides a very intuitive way to provide links to your commands. "Azure topic (noun) verb options" or "Azure site list" or "Azure virtual hard disk creation", as follows:

There is even the art of ASCII, who can not like it.

Seriously, although it's a cliché. Here's an example of the interaction I just made. I cut some boring stuff, but it started with a whole new machine with no tools installed and ended up interacting with my Windows Azure account.

scott@hanselmac:~$ npm Install azure


npm http Get https://registry.npmjs.org/azure


... bunch of GETS ...


scott@hanselmac:~$ Azure


Info: _ _____ _ ___


Info:/_\ |_/| | | _ \ __|


Info: _ ___/_ \__//| |_| | / _|___ _ _


Info: (___/_/\_\/___|\___/|_|_\___| _____)


Info: (_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _) _


Info: (______________ _) (___ _)


Info:


info:windows Azure:microsoft ' s Cloud Platform


Info:


Info:tool version 0.6.0


... bunch of help stuff ...





scott@hanselmac:~$ Azure Account Download


info:executing command Account download


Info:launching browser to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=254432


help:save The downloaded file, then execute the command


help:account Import <file>


info:account download Command OK


scott@hanselmac:~$ CD ~


scott@hanselmac:~$ CD downloads/


scott@hanselmac:~/downloads$ ls


3-month Free Trial.publishsettings


scott@hanselmac:~/downloads$ Azure Account Import 3-month\ free\ trial.publishsettings


info:executing Command Account import


info:setting Service Endpoint To:management.core.windows.net


info:setting Service Port to:443


info:found subscription:3-month Free Trial


info:setting Default Subscription to:3-month free Trial


Warn:remember to deletes it now, it super-delegates been imported.


Info:account Publish settings imported successfully


info:account Import Command OK


scott@hanselmac:~/downloads$ Azure Site List


info:executing command Site list


+ Enumerating Locations


+ Enumerating Sites


data:name State Host names


data:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


data:superawesome Running superawesome.azurewebsites.net,www.acustomdomain.com


info:site List command OK


scott@hanselmac:~/downloads$ Azure Site list--json


[


{


"adminenabled": "True",


"availabilitystate": "Normal",


"Enabledhostnames": [


"Superawesome.azurewebsites.net",


"Www.acustomdomain.com"


],


"hostnames": [


"Ratchetandthegeek.azurewebsites.net",


"Www.ratchetandthegeek.com"


"state": "Running",


"usagestate": "Normal",


"webspace": "Eastuswebspace"


}


]

Here's how I use the command line to create and start a virtual machine. First I'll list the available mirrors, I can start with those mirrors, and then I'll create it. I waited for it to be ready, and then started and prepared a remote connection (RDP,SSH, etc.).

scott@hanselmac:~$ Azure VM image list


info:executing command VM image list


+ Fetching VM Images


data:name Category OS


data:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


data:canonical__canonical-ubuntu-12-04-amd64-server-20120528.1.3-en-us-30gb.vhd CANONICAL Linux


data:msft__windows-server-2012-rc-june2012-en-us-30gb.vhd Microsoft Windows


data:msft__sql-server-11eval-11.0.2215.0-05152012-en-us-30gb.vhd Microsoft Windows


data:msft__win2k8r2sp1-120514-1520-141205-01-en-us-30gb.vhd Microsoft Windows


data:openlogic__openlogic-centos-62-20120531-en-us-30gb.vhd openlogic Linux


data:suse__opensuse-12-1-20120603-en-us-30gb.vhd SUSE Linux


data:suse__suse-linux-enterprise-server-11sp2-20120601-en-us-30gb.vhd SUSE Linux


INFO:VM image List command OK


scott@hanselmac:~$ Azure VM Create HANSELVM msft__windows-server-2012-rc-june2012-en-us-30gb.vhd Scott Superpassword- -location "West US"


info:executing command VM Create


+ looking up image


+ looking up cloud service


+ Creating cloud service


+ Retrieving storage accounts


+ Creating VM


INFO:VM create command OK


scott@hanselmac:~$ Azure VM list


info:executing command VM list


+ fetching VMs


data:dns name VM name Status


data:-----------------------------------------


data:hanselvm.cloudapp.net HANSELVM Provisioning


INFO:VM List command OK

This is a command-line tool for Mac,linux and optional windows. (If you install node and run "NPM install Azure--global"), there are also PowerShell commands used by Windows administrators. It's important to note that you can check out all the code because the Http://github.com/windowsazure on GitHub are open source. In fact, the entire command-line application is written in JavaScript.

Just as the command-line version of the management tool has a very specific and comfortable style of noun/verb/option, comdlets is also very "powershelly" style and makes it very comfortable for people who use PowerShell. Documents and tools are in the preview mode and are being developed, so you'll find vulnerabilities in your documents.

These PowerShell commands can work together and the data is transmitted between them. A new Azure virtual machine configuration is created here, and its machine name is selected from the list, and the Config object is passed to the NEW-AZUREVM.

1:c:\ps>new-azurevmconfig-name "MySUSEVM2"-instancesize extrasmall-imagename (Get-azurevmimage) [7]. ImageName '

2: | Add-azureprovisioningconfig–linux–linuxuser $lxUser-password $adminPassword '

3: | New-azurevm

Next, I want to find out how to start an entire farm site with the command line, how to deploy an application to a new network farm, configure traffic for the farm, and then load the tests frequently, which are obtained using the command line. How interesting it will be!

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