Update the admin username and password of the VMs in a cluster

Each node type in a Service Fabric cluster is a virtual machine scale set. This sample script updates the admin username and password for the cluster virtual machines in a specific node type. Add the VMAccessAgent extension to the scale set, because the admin password is not a modifiable scale set property. The username and password changes apply to all nodes in the scale set. Customize the parameters as needed.

Note

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Sample script

Login-AzAccount
Get-AzSubscription
Set-AzContext -SubscriptionId 'yourSubscriptionID'

$nodeTypeName = 'nt1vm'
$resourceGroup = 'sfclustertutorialgroup'
$publicConfig = @{'UserName' = 'newuser'}
$privateConfig = @{'Password' = 'PasSwo0rd$#!'}
$extName = 'VMAccessAgent'
$publisher = 'Microsoft.Compute'
$node = Get-AzVmss -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup -VMScaleSetName $nodeTypeName
$node = Add-AzVmssExtension -VirtualMachineScaleSet $node -Name $extName -Publisher $publisher -Setting $publicConfig -ProtectedSetting $privateConfig -Type $extName -TypeHandlerVersion '2.0' -AutoUpgradeMinorVersion $true

Update-AzVmss -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup -Name $nodeTypeName -VirtualMachineScaleSet $node

Script explanation

This script uses the following commands: Each command in the table links to command specific documentation.

Command	Notes
Get-AzVmss	Gets the properties of a cluster node type (a virtual machine scale set).
Add-AzVmssExtension	Adds an extension to the virtual machine scale set.
Update-AzVmss	Updates the state of a virtual machine scale set to the state of a local VMSS object.

Duration

A single node type with five nodes, for example, has a duration of 45 to 60 minutes to change the username or password.

Next steps

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Additional Azure PowerShell samples for Azure Service Fabric can be found in the Azure PowerShell samples.