.NET Core 2.0 By Example

Automating using PowerShell

In this section, we will learn to automate resource creation and management in Azure using PowerShell. The user interface route to creating resources in Azure is very effective and easy. You may be wondering: Do you have to log in to the Azure portal to do every single thing? No. Everything that you can set and do in the Azure portal can also be automated by writing a program, or by writing a script. Also, being a developer, I prefer my code to do the work rather than going to the portal and doing operations manually. The code can also help us do the automation, so preventing the need for human intervention. There are SDKs available for many languages, from C#, to JavaScript, to Ruby, and so on. We will look at ...