TechNet Radio: (Part 17) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - End-to-End IaaS Workload Provisioning in the Cloud with Azure Automation and PowerShell DSC
Keith Mayer welcomes special guest Tommy Patterson to the series as they discuss end-to-end IaaS workload provisioning in the Cloud with Azure Automation and PowerShell DSC. Tune in as they break down automation into 3 main categories of tasks (managing and orchestrating the overall process, provisioning cloud fabric resources, and provisioning workloads, like operating systems and applications) and then go into in-depth demos showing how you can do this via Azure Automation and PowerShell DSC.
[2:05] How can Azure Automation, PowerShell and DSC all be used together to create a “push-button” provisioning in the cloud?
[4:23] How do you go about positioning each of the tools we’ve mentioned?
[5:34] So, what should we use for managing & orchestrating the overall process?
[6:54] How about provisioning cloud fabric resources vs provisioning workloads?
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- Azure Automation Runbook – provisioning load-balanced web VMs in existing virtual network
- PowerShell DSC – provisioning new IIS web site
- Publish DSC to Azure Storage
- Invoke DSC configuration inside each VM via Azure VM Agent extension
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If you're interested in learning more about the products or solutions discussed in this episode, click on any of the below links for free, in-depth information:
Websites & Blogs:
- Keith Mayer's Blog
- Tommy Patterson’s Blog
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Automating the Cloud with Azure Automation
- Cloud Solutions Hub
- Building Clouds blog
- Part 1 – Step-by-Step: End-to-End IaaS Workload Provisioning in the Cloud with Azure Automation and PowerShell DSC
Videos:
- (Part 1) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage Foundation
- (Part 2) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Hyper-V Enhancements in Windows Server 2012 R2
- (Part 3) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Networking Enhancements in Windows Server 2012 R2
- (Part 4) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Managing Cloud Foundations with Windows Server 2012 R2
- (Part 5) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Building a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with Windows Server 2012 R2
- (Part 6) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Networking in System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
- (Part 7) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Managing Storage with System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
- (Part 8) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Build Your Compute Fabric with System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager
- (Part 9) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Getting Started with the Windows Azure Pack
- (Part 10) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Windows Azure Pack Remote Console Support
- (Part 11) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Service Management Automation
- (Part 12) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Windows Azure Pack and the Virtual Machine Role Gallery
- (Part 13) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Cross-Premises Virtual Networking with Site-to-Site VPN and ExpressRoute
- (Part 14) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Disaster Recovery to the Cloud with Azure Site Recovery
- (Part 15) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Getting Started with Automating the Hybrid Cloud using PowerShell
- (Part 16) Building Your Hybrid Cloud - Migrating Applications to Microsoft Azure from Hyper-V, VMware, Amazon AWS & Physical Servers
