Thomas Mitchell - Azure PowerShell Quick Start Guide: Deploy and manage Azure virtual machines with ease

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About the author

Thomas Mitchell is a 25+ year veteran of the IT industry and carries numerous industry certifications. He has built a rather in-depth skill set that spans numerous IT disciplines. Tom's disciplines include Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Azure, and Active Directory. He is now an independent IT consultant, a freelance author, and online IT trainer, has written about numerous IT topics for several online publications, and has even published several of his own IT courses on Udemy (dot) com.

You can find a complete list of his courses at thomasmitchell (dot) net/udemy. Tom is the managing editor for understandingazure (dot) com. He lives with his wife, Darlene, and five kids, Michael, Tommy, Joey, Brittany, and Matthew.

I would like to thank Packt for all the contributions for the book. Reshma Raman and Roshan Kumar were immensely helpful to me, they both provided invaluable feedback to make the book better. I would like to thank my technical reviewers and proofreaders for their thorough reviews and insightful comments. I'd like to thank my wife and kids for dealing with the long hours that I've spent in front of my laptop. Part of my drive while writing this book was that the completion of this book would demonstrate to my kids that effort is rewarded.

About the reviewer

Anders Eide, manager at KPMG, loves his job as it lets him make the right decisions with customers, combined with the eagerness to always be at the cutting edge of innovative technologies. This love for new technology and new ways of thinking is also one of the reasons he as been awarded as Microsoft Azure MVP since 2014.

What this book covers

, Getting Started, covers the basics of Azure PowerShell and introduces you to basic PowerShell tasks, including the installation of Azure PowerShell and how to connect to Azure with it. It also covers remedial tasks, such as deploying a VM in Azure with PowerShell, resizing a VM, and managing VM statesall with PowerShell.

, Working with Images, introduces a few image-related Azure tasks that can be completed with PowerShell. It discusses the deployment of VMs using PowerShell with Marketplace images as well as how to create custom images and how to deploy VMs from such custom images.

, Working with Disks, covers more advanced topics, including the deployment and attachment of data disks using PowerShell. Also covered in this chapter is the creation of VM snapshots, and how to deploy new VMs from such snapshots. Encryption of VMs and virtual disks is also covered.

, High Availability, explores the deployment of availability sets and how to load balance Azure VMs.

, Other Cool Stuff, explores various other cool tricks that you can do with Azure PowerShell. Covered in this chapter is the creation and attachment of NICs to VMs using PowerShell. Tagging VMs with PowerShell and redeploying VMs with PowerShell are also covered, as are admin password resets. However, the coolest topic covered in this chapter is the management of VMs with custom script extensions.

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Preface

The world is racing to the cloud. As such, it's critical that IT professionals stay ahead of the curve by learning about all that the cloud has to offer. Those professionals that do not will find themselves sidelined as a new breed of engineers emergesa breed that speaks cloud proficiently. Because cloud