PowerShell Meetup slide for Setting up a test environment on Azure IaaS environment using PowerShell (Infrastructure as Code) via Azure DevOps Pipeline

1. A Journey to One Click of a
Button

2. Get-Presenter
• Naw Awn
• Applications Analyst
• @nawawn

3. Setting up the test environment on Azure
using PowerShell
• What we want to achieve/build
• Azure Virtual Network (NSG)
• Site-to-Site VPN Connection
• Storage Account (Blob Container, File Share, Table)
• Virtual Machine(s) (DSC)

4. Azure Test Environment Diagram

5. Azure DevOps Pipeline
azure-pipelines.yml

6. Demo

7. PowerShell
VS Code
• Virtual Network creation (Subnet & NSG)
• VPN configuration
• VM creation
Base64 Encoding
New VM creation
• Storage Account creation
Test Name availability (API Query)
• DSC
• Pester Test (Infrastructure Test)
• Teardown

8. Wrap Up
• Setting up the test environment
- Define the requirements
• Setting up the pipeline
- Version Control
- File Validation Test
- Unit Test
- Deployment
- Infrastructure Test
• Teardown the environment
• PowerShell Script Highlight

9. References
PowerShell Task
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
us/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/utility/powershell?view=azure-devops
Azure PowerShell Task
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/deploy/azure-
powershell?view=azure-devops
Yaml Schema
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/yaml-schema?view=azure-
devops&tabs=schema
Clean up old deployments
https://www.gatevnotes.com/overcoming-the-maximum-limit-for-deployments-per-
resource-group/
@nawawn