Create Azure VM though PowerShell

Tag: Azure

Ricardo Mauro

• 1 min read

Go to https://shell.azure.com and enter the following commands.

Azure available locations.
Get-AzureRmLocation | Format-Table
Azure Resource Groups available in the subscription.
Get-AzureRmResourceGroup | select ResourceGroupName
Setting up the local variables.
$VMLocalAdminUser = "myAdminUser"
$VMLocalAdminSecurePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString "MyStrongPassword@123456789" -AsPlainText -Force
$LocationName = "centralus"
$ResourceGroupName = "demo001PS"
$ComputerName = "MyVM"
$VMName = "devUScWeb002"
$VMSize = "Standard_DS3"
$NICName = "devUScWeb002-ip"
Creating the Resource Group
New-AzureRmResourceGroup -Name $ResourceGroupName -Location $LocationName
Creating the Virtual Network
$virtualNetwork = New-AzVirtualNetwork `
  -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroupName `
  -Location $LocationName `
  -Name $VMName `
  -AddressPrefix 10.0.0.0/16

$subnetConfig = Add-AzVirtualNetworkSubnetConfig `
  -Name default `
  -AddressPrefix 10.0.0.0/24 `
  -VirtualNetwork $virtualNetwork

$virtualNetwork | Set-AzVirtualNetwork

$nic = New-AzureRmNetworkInterface `
 -Name "NIC1" `
 -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroupName `
 -Location $LocationName `
 -SubnetId $virtualNetwork.Subnets[0].Id `
 -IpConfigurationName "IPConfig1" `
 -DnsServer "8.8.8.8", "8.8.4.4"
Creating the Virtual Machine
$Credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ($VMLocalAdminUser, $VMLocalAdminSecurePassword)

$VirtualMachine = New-AzureRmVMConfig `
 -VMName $VMName -VMSize $VMSize

$VirtualMachine = Set-AzureRmVMOperatingSystem `
 -VM $VirtualMachine `
 -Windows `
 -ComputerName $ComputerName `
 -Credential $Credential `
 -ProvisionVMAgent -EnableAutoUpdate

$VirtualMachine = Add-AzureRmVMNetworkInterface `
 -VM $VirtualMachine `
 -Id $NIC.Id

$VirtualMachine = Set-AzureRmVMSourceImage `
 -VM $VirtualMachine `
 -PublisherName 'MicrosoftWindowsServer' `
 -Offer 'WindowsServer' `
 -Skus '2012-R2-Datacenter' `
 -Version latest

$job = New-AzureRmVM `
 -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroupName `
 -Location $LocationName `
 -VM $VirtualMachine `
 -AsJob

The -AsJob option creates the VM in the background. You can continue to the next step.

Based on:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/AzureRm.Compute/New-AzureRmVM?view=azurermps-6.13.0

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/quick-create-powershell

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/azurerm.network/new-azurermnetworkinterface?view=azurermps-6.13.0

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