Mastering Azure PowerShell: Automate Azure Administration

Download PowerShell Core from GitHub, install the x64 Windows MSA file, add PowerShell to the path, and verify PS version 7.1.1 to automate Azure administration.

Install and configure Visual Studio Code as a cross-platform editor, install the PowerShell extension, and emulate the PowerShell ISE experience to manage PowerShell scripts with IntelliSense.

Explore Windows PowerShell ISE to write, test, and debug scripts with IntelliSense, run selections or full scripts, and manage multiple files, while planning a shift to Visual Studio Code.

Demonstrates installing the Azure PowerShell module from PSGallery, validating execution policy, installing in the current user scope, and updating and listing installed module versions.

Discover Azure Cloud Shell, a cloud-based Linux shell accessible from the Azure portal to manage resources with built-in CLI and PowerShell, persistent storage, and an integrated editor.

Learn how to connect to an Azure tenant from PowerShell by interactive sign-in, a subscription ID, or device authentication, with authenticator approvals and cross-platform login.

Learn the structure of Azure PowerShell commands using the verb-noun naming convention with the easy prefix, enabling quick discovery of resources like VM, firewall, and network security groups.

Learn to master the PowerShell help system, using Get-Command and Get-Help to discover commands, from code and from documentation, with a quick demo of parameters.

Discover how to use get-help and get-command to discover commands with wildcards, filter by category, view details, parameters, and examples with online help.

Use Get-Command in a PowerShell ISE demo to discover commands containing service, filter to cmdlets, and display module, version, and source details.

Understand how Azure resource manager centralizes deployment and management via portal and PowerShell. Explore arm templates, json declarations, and infra as code with parameters, linked templates, validation, and ecosystem support.

Understand that Azure resources are the basic building blocks and resource groups organize them. Explore management options via portal, CLI, PowerShell, ARM templates, and APIs, with best-practice grouping.

Explore how Azure resource tags label and organize resources, enabling grouping, cost tracking, discovery, automation, and governance through policy, RBAC, and cleanup.

Apply tags to a resource group by storing resource data in a variable, building a tag hash table with splatting, and updating tags with replace, then verify using Get-AzTag.

Append or update tags on an existing Azure resource or resource group using PowerShell, creating new tags via splatting and performing a merge operation.

Learn how to list Azure resources by tag filters, including tag name and value, and extract specific properties such as resource group names or resource names using the property operator.

Explore Azure VNet basics, including subnets, CIDR ranges, VNet peering, on-prem connectivity options, private links, and routing tables.

Create an Azure virtual network with PowerShell by building a properties table, then deploy the network from that table and verify its creation.

Shows creating two subnets, private and public, in an Azure virtual network with PowerShell, explains routing differences, and commits the configuration to the network.

Understand how Azure network security groups control inbound and outbound traffic with rules based on source, destination, ports, and protocols, applied to subnets or network interface cards.

Learn to create a network security group rule in Azure with PowerShell, including listing existing rules, defining a splatting rule values table, and applying the rule.

Attach a network security group to a subnet in a virtual network with PowerShell, then detach it when needed, while storing vnet and NSG details for reliable mapping updates.

Create an Azure network security group rule with PowerShell by defining NSG variables, building a splatting rule (name, protocol, inbound, priority, ports), and applying it to the NSG, then verify.

Learn how Azure Virtual Machines provide Windows or Linux environments with pay-as-you-go pricing, flexible scaling, high availability, and integration with virtual network, backup, site recovery, monitoring, and automation.