Automating Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Services

In this book you will learn how to use command line to take full control of your Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Services deployments. Discover how to master automation of Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks using PowerShell. This book will teach you the fine arts of cloud automation through practical examples of automating the provisioning and management of virtual machines, storage and of course virtual networks. Learn how to master the management of virtual machine storage including storage accounts, images and disks along with the Microsoft Azure networking stack though endpoint management and virtual network configuration. Finally, this book will teach you advanced provisioning and management techniques such as using remote PowerShell and custom script extensions to bootstrap your virtual machines.

If you're looking for a guide that will teach you how to create reliable and reproducible deployments and how to easily automate management tasks in Microsoft Azure, this is the book for you.

Michael Washam is the CEO and Co-Founder of Opsgility – http://www.opsgility.com. Opsgility delivers instructor-led, remote-classroom and on-demand training focused on Microsoft cloud technologies. Michael has extensive history in the IT Industry where he has worked as an IT Professional, Developer, Evangelist and Program Manager. While at Microsoft as a Senior Program Manager on the Microsoft Azure Runtime Team, Michael led the release of the Microsoft Azure PowerShell Cmdlets for compute and the Microsoft Azure SDK (runtime). As a Senior Technical Evangelist Michael worked on the initial Microsoft Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service launch. In this role Michael also shipped the IaaS Microsoft Azure training kit, and the Microsoft Azure PowerShell Cmdlets for IaaS and Cloud Services.

Michael is a globally recognized speaker at conferences such as BUILD and TechEd, avid blogger, speaker, and trainer on cloud computing, debugging, and DevOps.