Azure VM | Add Multiple Data Disks v2
This is a new version of my previous script Add multiple managed disks to Azure RM VM
Changes:
-
- Shows the disk capacity of the VM and asks how many disks to add.
- Prompts for the size of every disk
- Checks for empty Luns to add the disks
# 1. You need to login to the Azure Rm Account
Login-AzAccount
# 2. The script will query the Subscriptions that the login account has access and will promt the user to select the target Subscription from the drop down list
$subscription = Get-AzSubscription | Out-GridView -Title "Select a Subscription" -PassThru
Select-AzSubscription -SubscriptionId $subscription.Id
# 3. The script will query the available VMs and promt to select the target VM from the VM list
$vm = Get-AzVM | Out-GridView -Title "Select the Virtual Machine to add Data Disks to" -PassThru
# 4. I set the storage type based on the OS disk. If you want to spesify somehting else you can cahnge this to: $storageType = StandardLRS or PremiumLRS etc.
$storageType = $VM.StorageProfile.OsDisk.ManagedDisk.StorageAccountType
# 5. Enter how many data disks you need to create
$VMdiskCapacity = ($VM.StorageProfile.DataDisks).Capacity
$diskquantity = Read-Host "How many disks you need to create? Max Capacity" $VMdiskCapacity "."
# 6. The script will promt for disk size, in GB
$diskSizeList = @()
for($i = 1; $i -le $diskquantity; $i++)
{
$disk = (Read-Host "Disk " $i " Size")
$diskSizeList += $disk
}
$diskSizeList
# 7. check for exisiting disks
$existinglun = @()
for($i = 0; $i -lt $VMdiskCapacity; $i++) {
$existinglun += ($VM.StorageProfile.DataDisks)[$i].Lun
}
# 8. disks creation
for($i = 0; $i -lt $diskquantity; $i++)
{
$diskName = $vm.Name + "-DataDisk-" + $i.ToString()
$diskConfig = New-AzDiskConfig -AccountType $storageType -Location $vm.Location -CreateOption Empty -DiskSizeGB $diskSizeList[$i]
$DataDisk = New-AzDisk -DiskName $diskName -Disk $diskConfig -ResourceGroupName $vm.ResourceGroupName
for ($j = 0; $j -lt $VMdiskCapacity; $j++) {
if ( $null -eq $existinglun[$j] ) {
$nextLunIndex
for ($k = 0; $k -lt $VMdiskCapacity; $k++ ) {
$nextLunIndex = $k
for ( $m = 0; $m -lt $VMdiskCapacity; $m++ ) {
if ( $k -eq $existinglun[$m] ) {
$nextLunIndex = -1
break
}
}
if ($nextLunIndex -ne -1 ) {
break
}
}
Add-AzVMDataDisk -VM $vm -Name $DiskName -CreateOption Attach -ManagedDiskId $DataDisk.Id -Lun $nextLunIndex
$existinglun[$j] = $nextLunIndex
break
}
}
}
Update-AzVM -VM $vm -ResourceGroupName $vm.ResourceGroupName
You can download the script from: https://github.com/proximagr/automation/blob/master/Add-DataDisks-DIffSize_v3.ps1
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Deploy VM from Azure SIG in new Resource Group
Deploy VM from Azure SIG in new Resource Group
This is a template that first creates a Resource Group, and then it deploys a Virtual Machine from an image version of the Shared Image Gallery. It provides the Public IP and Hostname for outputs.
Currently it only asks for the SIG image version and an environment value to create the naming convention of the resources.
{
"$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2018-05-01/subscriptionDeploymentTemplate.json#",
"contentVersion": "1.0.0.0",
"parameters": {
"galleryimageversion": {
"type": "string",
"defaultValue": "10.0.2"
},
"envname": {
"type": "string",
"defaultValue": "test"
}
},
"variables": {
"basename": "[concat(parameters('envname'),substring(deployment().name,0,6))]",
"rgname": "[concat('rg-', substring(variables('basename'), 0, 10))]",
"region": "francecentral"
},
"resources": [
{
"name": "[variables('rgname')]",
"type": "Microsoft.Resources/resourceGroups",
"apiVersion": "2019-10-01",
"location": "[variables('region')]",
"dependsOn": [
],
"tags": {
}
},
{
"type": "Microsoft.Resources/deployments",
"resourceGroup": "[variables('rgname')]",
"dependsOn": [
"[resourceId('Microsoft.Resources/resourceGroups',variables('rgname'))]"
],
"apiVersion": "2019-10-01",
"name": "nestedTemplate1",
"properties": {
"expressionEvaluationOptions": {
"scope": "inner"
},
"mode": "Incremental",
"parameters": {
"galleryImageVersionName": {
"value": "[parameters('galleryimageversion')]"
},
"envname": {
"value": "[parameters('envname')]"
}
},
"template": {
"$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2019-04-01/deploymentTemplate.json#",
"contentVersion": "1.0.0.0",
"parameters": {
"galleryImageVersionName": {
"type": "string"
},
"envname": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"variables": {
"basename": "[concat(parameters('envname'),substring(deployment().name,0,6))]",
"pubipname": "[concat( 'pip-',variables('basename'))]",
"pubipdns": "[concat( 'vm-',variables('basename'))]",
"region": "francecentral",
"adminUsername": "uiadmin",
"adminPassword": "ThisIs1Password!",
"galleryName": "demosig",
"galleryImageDefinitionName": "demoid",
"nicName": "[concat( 'nic-',variables('basename'))]",
"addressPrefix": "10.0.0.0/24",
"subnetName": "[concat( 'sub-',variables('basename'))]",
"subnetPrefix": "10.0.0.0/24",
"vmName": "[concat( 'vm-',variables('basename'))]",
"virtualNetworkName": "[concat( 'vnet-',variables('basename'))]",
"subnetRef": "[resourceId('Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/subnets', variables('virtualNetworkName'), variables('subnetName'))]",
"networkSecurityGroupName": "[concat( 'nsg-',variables('basename'))]"
},
"resources": [
{
"name": "[variables('pubipname')]",
"type": "Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses",
"apiVersion": "2019-11-01",
"location": "[variables('region')]",
"tags": {
"displayName": "publicIPAddress1"
},
"properties": {
"publicIPAllocationMethod": "Static",
"dnsSettings": {
"domainNameLabel": "[variables('pubipdns')]"
}
}
},
{
"comments": "Simple Network Security Group for subnet [variables('subnetName')]",
"type": "Microsoft.Network/networkSecurityGroups",
"apiVersion": "2019-08-01",
"name": "[variables('networkSecurityGroupName')]",
"location": "[variables('region')]",
"properties": {
"securityRules": [
{
"name": "default-allow-22",
"properties": {
"priority": 1000,
"access": "Allow",
"direction": "Inbound",
"destinationPortRange": "22",
"protocol": "Tcp",
"sourceAddressPrefix": "*",
"sourcePortRange": "*",
"destinationAddressPrefix": "*"
}
},
{
"name": "default-allow-3389",
"properties": {
"priority": 1001,
"access": "Allow",
"direction": "Inbound",
"destinationPortRange": "3389",
"protocol": "Tcp",
"sourceAddressPrefix": "*",
"sourcePortRange": "*",
"destinationAddressPrefix": "*"
}
}
]
}
},
{
"type": "Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks",
"name": "[variables('virtualNetworkName')]",
"apiVersion": "2016-03-30",
"location": "[variables('region')]",
"dependsOn": [
"[resourceId('Microsoft.Network/networkSecurityGroups', variables('networkSecurityGroupName'))]"
],
"properties": {
"addressSpace": {
"addressPrefixes": [
"[variables('addressPrefix')]"
]
},
"subnets": [
{
"name": "[variables('subnetName')]",
"properties": {
"addressPrefix": "[variables('subnetPrefix')]",
"networkSecurityGroup": {
"id": "[resourceId('Microsoft.Network/networkSecurityGroups', variables('networkSecurityGroupName'))]"
}
}
}
]
}
},
{
"type": "Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces",
"name": "[variables('nicName')]",
"apiVersion": "2016-03-30",
"location": "[variables('region')]",
"properties": {
"ipConfigurations": [
{
"name": "ipconfig1",
"properties": {
"privateIPAllocationMethod": "Dynamic",
"publicIPAddress": {
"id": "[resourceId('Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses',variables('pubipname'))]"
},
"subnet": {
"id": "[variables('subnetRef')]"
}
}
}
]
},
"dependsOn": [
"[resourceId('Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses/', variables('pubipname'))]",
"[resourceId('Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/', variables('virtualNetworkName'))]"
]
},
{
"type": "Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines",
"name": "[variables('vmName')]",
"apiVersion": "2019-07-01",
"location": "[variables('region')]",
"properties": {
"hardwareProfile": {
"vmSize": "Standard_F8s_v2"
},
"osProfile": {
"computerName": "[variables('vmName')]",
"adminUsername": "[variables('adminUsername')]",
"adminPassword": "[variables('adminPassword')]"
},
"storageProfile": {
"imageReference": {
"id": "[resourceId('Microsoft.Compute/galleries/images/versions', variables('galleryName'), variables('galleryImageDefinitionName'), parameters('galleryImageVersionName'))]"
}
},
"networkProfile": {
"networkInterfaces": [
{
"id": "[resourceId('Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces',variables('nicName'))]"
}
]
}
},
"dependsOn": [
"[resourceId('Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces/', variables('nicName'))]"
]
}
],
"outputs": {
"publicipn": {
"type": "string",
"value": "[reference(variables('pubipname')).dnsSettings.fqdn]"
},
"publicipa": {
"type": "string",
"value": "[reference(variables('pubipname')).ipAddress]"
}
}
}
}
}
],
"outputs": {
"hostname": {
"type": "string",
"value": "[reference('nestedTemplate1').outputs.publicipn.value]"
},
"ipaddress": {
"type": "string",
"value": "[reference('nestedTemplate1').outputs.publicipa.value]"
}
}
}
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Deploy VM from Azure SIG in new Resource Group
Deploy VM from Azure SIG in new Resource Group
This is a template that first creates a Resource Group, and then it deploys a Virtual Machine from an image version of the Shared Image Gallery. It provides the Public IP and Hostname for outputs.
Currently it only asks for the SIG image version and an environment value to create the naming convention of the resources.
{
"$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2018-05-01/subscriptionDeploymentTemplate.json#",
"contentVersion": "1.0.0.0",
"parameters": {
"galleryimageversion": {
"type": "string",
"defaultValue": "10.0.2"
},
"envname": {
"type": "string",
"defaultValue": "test"
}
},
"variables": {
"basename": "[concat(parameters('envname'),substring(deployment().name,0,6))]",
"rgname": "[concat('rg-', substring(variables('basename'), 0, 10))]",
"region": "francecentral"
},
"resources": [
{
"name": "[variables('rgname')]",
"type": "Microsoft.Resources/resourceGroups",
"apiVersion": "2019-10-01",
"location": "[variables('region')]",
"dependsOn": [
],
"tags": {
}
},
{
"type": "Microsoft.Resources/deployments",
"resourceGroup": "[variables('rgname')]",
"dependsOn": [
"[resourceId('Microsoft.Resources/resourceGroups',variables('rgname'))]"
],
"apiVersion": "2019-10-01",
"name": "nestedTemplate1",
"properties": {
"expressionEvaluationOptions": {
"scope": "inner"
},
"mode": "Incremental",
"parameters": {
"galleryImageVersionName": {
"value": "[parameters('galleryimageversion')]"
},
"envname": {
"value": "[parameters('envname')]"
}
},
"template": {
"$schema": "https://schema.management.azure.com/schemas/2019-04-01/deploymentTemplate.json#",
"contentVersion": "1.0.0.0",
"parameters": {
"galleryImageVersionName": {
"type": "string"
},
"envname": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"variables": {
"basename": "[concat(parameters('envname'),substring(deployment().name,0,6))]",
"pubipname": "[concat( 'pip-',variables('basename'))]",
"pubipdns": "[concat( 'vm-',variables('basename'))]",
"region": "francecentral",
"adminUsername": "uiadmin",
"adminPassword": "ThisIs1Password!",
"galleryName": "demosig",
"galleryImageDefinitionName": "demoid",
"nicName": "[concat( 'nic-',variables('basename'))]",
"addressPrefix": "10.0.0.0/24",
"subnetName": "[concat( 'sub-',variables('basename'))]",
"subnetPrefix": "10.0.0.0/24",
"vmName": "[concat( 'vm-',variables('basename'))]",
"virtualNetworkName": "[concat( 'vnet-',variables('basename'))]",
"subnetRef": "[resourceId('Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/subnets', variables('virtualNetworkName'), variables('subnetName'))]",
"networkSecurityGroupName": "[concat( 'nsg-',variables('basename'))]"
},
"resources": [
{
"name": "[variables('pubipname')]",
"type": "Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses",
"apiVersion": "2019-11-01",
"location": "[variables('region')]",
"tags": {
"displayName": "publicIPAddress1"
},
"properties": {
"publicIPAllocationMethod": "Static",
"dnsSettings": {
"domainNameLabel": "[variables('pubipdns')]"
}
}
},
{
"comments": "Simple Network Security Group for subnet [variables('subnetName')]",
"type": "Microsoft.Network/networkSecurityGroups",
"apiVersion": "2019-08-01",
"name": "[variables('networkSecurityGroupName')]",
"location": "[variables('region')]",
"properties": {
"securityRules": [
{
"name": "default-allow-22",
"properties": {
"priority": 1000,
"access": "Allow",
"direction": "Inbound",
"destinationPortRange": "22",
"protocol": "Tcp",
"sourceAddressPrefix": "*",
"sourcePortRange": "*",
"destinationAddressPrefix": "*"
}
},
{
"name": "default-allow-3389",
"properties": {
"priority": 1001,
"access": "Allow",
"direction": "Inbound",
"destinationPortRange": "3389",
"protocol": "Tcp",
"sourceAddressPrefix": "*",
"sourcePortRange": "*",
"destinationAddressPrefix": "*"
}
}
]
}
},
{
"type": "Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks",
"name": "[variables('virtualNetworkName')]",
"apiVersion": "2016-03-30",
"location": "[variables('region')]",
"dependsOn": [
"[resourceId('Microsoft.Network/networkSecurityGroups', variables('networkSecurityGroupName'))]"
],
"properties": {
"addressSpace": {
"addressPrefixes": [
"[variables('addressPrefix')]"
]
},
"subnets": [
{
"name": "[variables('subnetName')]",
"properties": {
"addressPrefix": "[variables('subnetPrefix')]",
"networkSecurityGroup": {
"id": "[resourceId('Microsoft.Network/networkSecurityGroups', variables('networkSecurityGroupName'))]"
}
}
}
]
}
},
{
"type": "Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces",
"name": "[variables('nicName')]",
"apiVersion": "2016-03-30",
"location": "[variables('region')]",
"properties": {
"ipConfigurations": [
{
"name": "ipconfig1",
"properties": {
"privateIPAllocationMethod": "Dynamic",
"publicIPAddress": {
"id": "[resourceId('Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses',variables('pubipname'))]"
},
"subnet": {
"id": "[variables('subnetRef')]"
}
}
}
]
},
"dependsOn": [
"[resourceId('Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses/', variables('pubipname'))]",
"[resourceId('Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/', variables('virtualNetworkName'))]"
]
},
{
"type": "Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines",
"name": "[variables('vmName')]",
"apiVersion": "2019-07-01",
"location": "[variables('region')]",
"properties": {
"hardwareProfile": {
"vmSize": "Standard_F8s_v2"
},
"osProfile": {
"computerName": "[variables('vmName')]",
"adminUsername": "[variables('adminUsername')]",
"adminPassword": "[variables('adminPassword')]"
},
"storageProfile": {
"imageReference": {
"id": "[resourceId('Microsoft.Compute/galleries/images/versions', variables('galleryName'), variables('galleryImageDefinitionName'), parameters('galleryImageVersionName'))]"
}
},
"networkProfile": {
"networkInterfaces": [
{
"id": "[resourceId('Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces',variables('nicName'))]"
}
]
}
},
"dependsOn": [
"[resourceId('Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces/', variables('nicName'))]"
]
}
],
"outputs": {
"publicipn": {
"type": "string",
"value": "[reference(variables('pubipname')).dnsSettings.fqdn]"
},
"publicipa": {
"type": "string",
"value": "[reference(variables('pubipname')).ipAddress]"
}
}
}
}
}
],
"outputs": {
"hostname": {
"type": "string",
"value": "[reference('nestedTemplate1').outputs.publicipn.value]"
},
"ipaddress": {
"type": "string",
"value": "[reference('nestedTemplate1').outputs.publicipa.value]"
}
}
}
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Move your Azure VM across regions
Move your Azure VM across regions
Azure Resource Mover makes it really easy to move your resources, like Azure VMs, across regions. There are some minor details you need to take care to have the whole process run smoothly.
Let’s see how we can move our VM from a region to an other with simple steps
- At the Azure Portal search for “Azure Resource Mover”
2. At the Azure Resource Mover” wizard click “Move across regions”
3. Select the source & target region
4. select the resources you want to move
5. Accept the notification and start he process and go to the “Across Regions” option and press “Validate dependencies” button in the middle
6. After the validation, check the Issues column of all resources and resolve if any.
7. First we need to move the Resource Groups only. The move process has four steps, the Prepare, the Initiate Move , the Commit move and finally delete the source resources. So, select only all the “resources groups” and press “Prepare”
8. Select again the Resource Groups and press “Initiate Move”
9. Select gain the Resource Groups and press “Commit Move”
10. Now the Resource Groups are created at the target region, and is at pending deletion at the source. We can proceed with the rest resources. Select the rest resources and go through the same process, the Prepare, the Initiate Move , the Commit move and finally delete the source resources.
At the Prepare state, the Azure Site Recovery agent is installed at the VM and the data are replicated to the target region. This takes a lot of time, depending on the size of the data but it does not affect the VM.
Sneak peak: You can view the process of the VM, by navigating to the VM blade and go to the Disaster Recovery setting
11. Once all resources are in “Initiate move” pending state, select them and press “Initiate Move”. ATTENTION: at this state, there will be downtime to move the VMs. The source VMs will show down, a final data sync will be performed and finally the target VMs will start.
12. Wait until all resources are at the Commit Move state, select them and press “Commit Move”
at this state, we can see that we have two resource groups, the source and the target:
At the source resource group, the VMs will be stopped and at the target started. Note here that the target IP is not the same as the Source. Your Public IPs will be altered.
13. After the commit move, you will need to delete the source resources manually.
More info at: About the move process in Azure Resource Mover | Microsoft Docs
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Source: e-apostolidis.gr
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Move your Azure VM across regions
Move your Azure VM across regions
Azure Resource Mover makes it really easy to move your resources, like Azure VMs, across regions. There are some minor details you need to take care to have the whole process run smoothly.
Let’s see how we can move our VM from a region to an other with simple steps
- At the Azure Portal search for “Azure Resource Mover”
2. At the Azure Resource Mover” wizard click “Move across regions”
3. Select the source & target region
4. select the resources you want to move
5. Accept the notification and start he process and go to the “Across Regions” option and press “Validate dependencies” button in the middle
6. After the validation, check the Issues column of all resources and resolve if any.
7. First we need to move the Resource Groups only. The move process has four steps, the Prepare, the Initiate Move , the Commit move and finally delete the source resources. So, select only all the “resources groups” and press “Prepare”
8. Select again the Resource Groups and press “Initiate Move”
9. Select gain the Resource Groups and press “Commit Move”
10. Now the Resource Groups are created at the target region, and is at pending deletion at the source. We can proceed with the rest resources. Select the rest resources and go through the same process, the Prepare, the Initiate Move , the Commit move and finally delete the source resources.
At the Prepare state, the Azure Site Recovery agent is installed at the VM and the data are replicated to the target region. This takes a lot of time, depending on the size of the data but it does not affect the VM.
Sneak peak: You can view the process of the VM, by navigating to the VM blade and go to the Disaster Recovery setting
11. Once all resources are in “Initiate move” pending state, select them and press “Initiate Move”. ATTENTION: at this state, there will be downtime to move the VMs. The source VMs will show down, a final data sync will be performed and finally the target VMs will start.
12. Wait until all resources are at the Commit Move state, select them and press “Commit Move”
at this state, we can see that we have two resource groups, the source and the target:
At the source resource group, the VMs will be stopped and at the target started. Note here that the target IP is not the same as the Source. Your Public IPs will be altered.
13. After the commit move, you will need to delete the source resources manually.
More info at: About the move process in Azure Resource Mover | Microsoft Docs
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VMWare Workstation Player on Azure VM for testing
VMWare Workstation Player on Azure VM for testing
I had a request to run VMWare Workstation Player on an Azure VM for some testing and labs. Challenge accepted!
Demo environment:
Azure VM Standard E4s_v4 running Windows 10 2004 Enterprise
Installed VMWare Workstation Player 16.0 free for non-commercial use
Tried to spin up a VM, but i got error for hyper-v conflict.
to solve it:
Download: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=53337
Extract to a local folder open an administrative PowerShell in this folder
execute: .DG_Readiness_Tool_v3.6.ps1 -enable
Reboot
open again an administrative PowerShell in this folder
execute .DG_Readiness_Tool_v3.6.ps1 -disable
execute bcdedit /deletevalue hypervisorlaunchtype
execute bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off
(ignore all error messages from DG_Readiness_Tool_v3.6.ps1)
Finally the VM at the VMWare Workstation Player started and I managed to setup and run a Windows 10 VM.
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VMWare Workstation Player on Azure VM for testing
VMWare Workstation Player on Azure VM for testing
I had a request to run VMWare Workstation Player on an Azure VM for some testing and labs. Challenge accepted!
Demo environment:
Azure VM Standard E4s_v4 running Windows 10 2004 Enterprise
Installed VMWare Workstation Player 16.0 free for non-commercial use
Tried to spin up a VM, but i got error for hyper-v conflict.
to solve it:
Download: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=53337
Extract to a local folder open an administrative PowerShell in this folder
execute: .DG_Readiness_Tool_v3.6.ps1 -enable
Reboot
open again an administrative PowerShell in this folder
execute .DG_Readiness_Tool_v3.6.ps1 -disable
execute bcdedit /deletevalue hypervisorlaunchtype
execute bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off
(ignore all error messages from DG_Readiness_Tool_v3.6.ps1)
Finally the VM at the VMWare Workstation Player started and I managed to setup and run a Windows 10 VM.
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Learn Azure for Free using Sandbox!
Learn Azure for Free using Sandbox!
Did you know that you can use Azure for free for learning purposes? And when I say free, i am not talking about the free account where you need to add your credit card and have 170€ credit. I am talking about a completely free environment to learn the Azure services and resources, but only for Learning purposes.
The Azure Sandbox is offered by the Microsoft Learn platform. Microsoft Learn is a completely free, online training platform that provides interactive learning for Microsoft products and more.
The Microsoft Learn sandbox (sometimes called the Azure sandbox) is a free environment that you can use to explore Azure through Microsoft Learn content.
And the magic here is that you don’t need an Azure account to use a sandbox! All you need is a Microsoft account to sign in with. If you don’t have one, you can create one for free.
Take a look at this. This is the Microsoft Learn home page where you can select whatever learning path or module you want to follow.
When you start a module that needs Microsoft Azure Access, there is an “Activate sandbox” button
When you press is, the only thing that you will be asked is to enter a mobile phone number, just for verification. It will not ask for credit card!
Once you verify your number, it will ask you to Review and accept the permissions to use Microsoft Azure using your Microsoft Account
And the Sandbox environment is ready! You can have 10 Sandboxes per day, for 2 hours each.
You can use Bash, PowerShell and the Azure Poral at will:
Bash:
PowerShell:
Azure Portal:
You can use the Sandbox to complete the specific exercise, but you can also play around with the resources. You can see at the below screenshot, that except the two “webVM”s of the exercise, I have created a “test” VM directly from the portal.
Start your learning path at Microsoft Learn NOW!
And remember: The sandbox may only be used to complete training on Microsoft Learn.
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Learn Azure for Free using Sandbox!
Learn Azure for Free using Sandbox!
Did you know that you can use Azure for free for learning purposes? And when I say free, i am not talking about the free account where you need to add your credit card and have 170€ credit. I am talking about a completely free environment to learn the Azure services and resources, but only for Learning purposes.
The Azure Sandbox is offered by the Microsoft Learn platform. Microsoft Learn is a completely free, online training platform that provides interactive learning for Microsoft products and more.
The Microsoft Learn sandbox (sometimes called the Azure sandbox) is a free environment that you can use to explore Azure through Microsoft Learn content.
And the magic here is that you don’t need an Azure account to use a sandbox! All you need is a Microsoft account to sign in with. If you don’t have one, you can create one for free.
Take a look at this. This is the Microsoft Learn home page where you can select whatever learning path or module you want to follow.
When you start a module that needs Microsoft Azure Access, there is an “Activate sandbox” button
When you press is, the only thing that you will be asked is to enter a mobile phone number, just for verification. It will not ask for credit card!
Once you verify your number, it will ask you to Review and accept the permissions to use Microsoft Azure using your Microsoft Account
And the Sandbox environment is ready! You can have 10 Sandboxes per day, for 2 hours each.
You can use Bash, PowerShell and the Azure Poral at will:
Bash:
PowerShell:
Azure Portal:
You can use the Sandbox to complete the specific exercise, but you can also play around with the resources. You can see at the below screenshot, that except the two “webVM”s of the exercise, I have created a “test” VM directly from the portal.
Start your learning path at Microsoft Learn NOW!
And remember: The sandbox may only be used to complete training on Microsoft Learn.
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Azure Application Gateway | WAF Policy per Listener
Azure Application Gateway | WAF Policy per Listener
With Azure Application Gateway v2 coming, a lot of new features have been added. Much faster deployment and change times, auto-scaling and the ability to assign different Web Application Firewall (WAF) policies per Application Gateway’s listener. This feature provides more control over each listener and also can limit the number of different Application Gateways you need to deploy.
With a custom WAF policy we can control the firewall per listener (URL) with:
- Firewall mode, Prevention – Detection
- Request body properties
- WAF rule set category & version
- Custom Rules with If / Then conditions
- Match IP address, Number, String, Geo location
- Allow / Deny Traffic
This post scenario
We have on Azure Application Gateway with two Listeners (listens to two different URLs at its Public IP). The two listeners are forwarding the traffic to two different Web Apps, as shown at the below image.
My request is to allow all traffic to the first URL but allow traffic only from a specific IP to the second URL.
For the demo, I assume that you already have an Azure Application Gateway v2 in place and you have published two back ends (web apps, VMs, custom IP) and your web sites / apps are healthy and you can browse them behind the Application Gateway.
Since I am using the default azurewebsites.net domain, I added two hosts at my workstation’s host file, in order to route the traffic to the Application Gateway’s IP and not directly to the Web Apps.
I can browse both Web Apps, through the Application Gateway, from my browser. I am using http and not https for the demo since I am using the default domain and I cannot add a custom certificate.
We need to create two Web Application Firewall policies (WAF). One for each listener. To create a WAF policy, search the Azure Portal for waf and click the “Web Application Firewall policies (WAF)”.
At the “Web Application Firewall policies (WAF)” page click +Add
At the Project details select “Regional WAF (Application Gateway)”.
Select the Subscription that your Application Gateway resides, select Resource Group, add a name for the Policy and the same region as your Application Gateway. The policy must set to Enabled to apply. I named the policy URLNumber02 to start creating the policy for the second URL that I want the custom rule.
At the Policy Settings change the setting to Prevention from Detection and go to the Custom rules and Add custom rule
I named the rule “AllowOnlyOneIP”, since I want to allow only one IP to access the second URL (listener) of the gateway. Give a priority, I added 1 as it is the only one. At the conditions select:
- March Type: IP address
- Operation: Does not contain
- IP address or range: add the only IP that you want to allow access to the URL
At the “Then” condition, select “Deny Traffic”
This rule will allow traffic only of the IP is the IP address that we added to the condition. For all other IPs access will be denied.
Now that we created the policy, we need to assign it to the listener. At the next step of the WAF policy wizard we need to select the Application Gateway and the Listener.
First click the “Associate an application gateway” and select the Application Gateway. Remember that this policy will need to overwrite the default Application Gateway’s WAF policy. So before proceeding migrate your current WAF settings and customizations to the new WAF policy.
After you select the Application Gateway, associate the listener. I associate the “mylistener02” that is my second URL, with this policy.
After saving the policy, go to the Application gateway and check the “Web Application Firewall” settings. There you will see that all settings disappeared and you can only see that the gateway is associated with a WAF policy. We see that it is Associated to the URLNumber2 polily.
You need to create one more WAF rule for URL 01 for the correct functionality. Once you create a WAF policy and associate it to the other listener of the Application gateway, you will see that at the “Web application firewall” is associated to the new policy. Actually the Application gateway is associated to both WAF policies, one at each listener. You just cannot see this at the Azure Portal.
We can see the WAF rules that are associated to the Application Gateway’s Listeners using the PowerShell. Running the “Get-AzApplicationGateway -Name AppGw01 -ResourceGroupName AppGw01” command you can see that the “URLNumber01” WAF policy is associated to the “mylistener” and the “URLNumber2” is associated to the “mylistener02”.
To test the policies, I tried to access both URLs from a computer that don’t have the Public IP that I added tot he policy and I can access the URL 1 app but I cannot access the URL 2 app. From the computer that has the Public IP we added at the rule, I can browse both sites.
The WAF rules can be edited at the Web Application Firewall policies (WAF) blade and all settings will apply to the corresponding listener.
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