IaaS automation with Power Shell and C#

Whether you are using Virtual Machines for production environments or dev/test scenarios, creating VMs through the Azure Management Portal and configuring / installing the servers manually can be a very time consuming task. So why not automate it?

Microsoft provides a few different options for 'scripting' the creation of the various services they provide, and at this meetup we'll go through two of these options.

In the first session Sebastiaan Janssen from Umbraco will show how you can utilize Power Shell and the Azure Power Shell Cmdlets to fully automate the creation of an entire server setup with supporting services like storage and Affinity Groups.
Sebastiaan didn't have any prior knowledge of Power Shell before venturing into the task of creating VMs for Umbraco's Azure setup, so this session will be developer friendly. So don't be afraid of the Power Shell.

The second session features Poul Sørensen from Composite, who will show another flavor of automated creation using the new .NET Management API. Poul will go through the options that you have available for creation VMs and supporting services using C# and demo an 'Azure Publisher' app, which came out of learning the possibilities of this API.