I’ve never been to Sweden, so I’m really looking forward to September, when I’ll be speaking at CloudBurst. Organised by the Swedish Azure User Group (SWAG – love it!), this conference is also streamed and recorded and the sessions will be available on Channel 9. The list of speakers and topics promise some high-quality and interesting sessions and I urge you to attend if you can, and tune in to the live stream if you can’t.
Getting ready for Global Windows Azure Bootcamp 2
It’s a busy week. I’m speaking at the [Black Marble-hosted GWAB2 event](http://www.blackmarble.co.uk/events.aspx?event= Global Windows Azure Bootcamp 2) this Saturday, along with Steve Spencer and Andy Westgarth. Richard and Robert will also be on hand which means between us we should be able to cover questions on much of the newly re-monikered Microsoft Azure.
I’ll be running through IaaS, Azure AD and looking at hybrid cloud solutions from an IT perspective while Steve and Andy talk through the other platform services from a developer point of view.
Creating Azure Virtual Networks using Powershell and XML Part 4: Local networks and site-site connectivity
This is part 4 of a series of posts building powershell functions to create and modify Azure Virtual Networks. Previous posts have covered functions to create virtual networks and then delete them. In this part, I’m going to show you functions that will define local networks and configure site-site VPN connectivity between a local and virtual network.
Next on my list is to create functions to delete the local networks and remove the site-site connections. Then I really must look at functions to edit the configuration.
Creating Azure Virtual Networks using Powershell and XML Part 2: Powershell functions
In my previous post I talked about what was involved in creating an Azure network configuration using Powershell. In this post I’ll cover where I’ve got so so far, which is a series of functions that do the following:
- Contact Azure and get the current network configuration. Convert that to sensible XML and if it’s empty, create the basic structure.
- Create a new virtual network, checking to see if one with the same name already exists.
- Add a subnet to a virtual network, checking to see one with the same address prefix or name doesn’t already exist.
- Add a DNS reference to a virtual network, making sure the DNS is defined first.
- Create a DNS.
- Put the configuration back into Azure to be applied.
Still on my to-do list are removing networks and other elements, and modifying existing networks.
