#Azure Management Libraries for .NET

This README is based on the latest released preview version (1.0 beta 5). If you are looking for other releases, see More Information

The Azure Management Libraries for .NET is a higher-level, object-oriented API for managing Azure resources. Libraries are built on the lower-level, request-response style auto generated clients and can run side-by-side with auto generated clients.

1.0 beta 5 is a developer preview that supports major parts of:

• Azure Virtual Machines and VM Extensions
• Virtual Machine Scale Sets
• Managed Disks
• Storage
• Networking (virtual networks, subnets, network interfaces, IP addresses, network security groups, load balancers, DNS, traffic managers and application gateways)
• Resource Manager
• SQL Database (databases, firewalls and elastic pools)
• App Service (Web Apps)
• Key Vault, Redis, CDN and Batch.

The next preview version of the Azure Management Libraries for .NET is a work in-progress. We will be adding support for more Azure services and applying finishing touches to the API.

Azure Authentication

The Azure class is the simplest entry point for creating and interacting with Azure resources.

Azure azure = Azure.Authenticate(credFile).WithDefaultSubscription();

Create a Virtual Machine

You can create a virtual machine instance by using a Define() … Create() method chain.

Console.WriteLine("Creating a Windows VM");

var windowsVM = azure.VirtualMachines.Define("myWindowsVM")
    .WithRegion(Region.US_EAST)
    .WithNewResourceGroup(rgName)
    .WithNewPrimaryNetwork("10.0.0.0/28")
    .WithPrimaryPrivateIpAddressDynamic()
    .WithNewPrimaryPublicIpAddress("mywindowsvmdns")
    .WithPopularWindowsImage(KnownWindowsVirtualMachineImage.WINDOWS_SERVER_2012_R2_DATACENTER)
    .WithAdminUsername("tirekicker")
    .WithPassword(password)
    .WithSize(VirtualMachineSizeTypes.StandardD3V2)
    .Create();
	
Console.WriteLine("Created a Windows VM: " + windowsVM.Id);

Update a Virtual Machine

You can update a virtual machine instance by using an Update() … Apply() method chain.

windowsVM.Update()
	.WithNewDataDisk(20, dataDiskName, CachingTypes.ReadWrite)
	.Apply();

Create a Virtual Machine Scale Set

You can create a virtual machine scale set instance by using another Define() … Create() method chain.

var virtualMachineScaleSet = azure.VirtualMachineScaleSets
	.Define(vmssName)
	.WithRegion(Region.US_EAST)
	.WithExistingResourceGroup(rgName)
	.WithSku(VirtualMachineScaleSetSkuTypes.STANDARD_D3_V2)
	.WithExistingPrimaryNetworkSubnet(network, "Front-end")
	.WithPrimaryInternetFacingLoadBalancer(loadBalancer1)
	.WithPrimaryInternetFacingLoadBalancerBackends(backendPoolName1, backendPoolName2)
	.WithPrimaryInternetFacingLoadBalancerInboundNatPools(natPool50XXto22, natPool60XXto23)
	.WithoutPrimaryInternalLoadBalancer()
	.WithPopularLinuxImage(KnownLinuxVirtualMachineImage.UBUNTU_SERVER_16_04_LTS)
	.WithRootUsername(userName)
	.WithSsh(sshKey)
	.WithNewDataDisk(100)		 
	.WithNewDataDisk(100, 1, CachingTypes.ReadWrite)
	.WithNewDataDisk(100, 2, CachingTypes.ReadWrite, StorageAccountTypes.StandardLRS)
	.WithCapacity(3)
	.Create();

Create a Network Security Group

You can create a network security group instance by using another Define() … Create() method chain.

var frontEndNSG = azure.NetworkSecurityGroups.Define(frontEndNSGName)
	.WithRegion(Region.US_EAST)
	.WithNewResourceGroup(rgName)
	.DefineRule("ALLOW-SSH")
	    .AllowInbound()
	    .FromAnyAddress()
	    .FromAnyPort()
	    .ToAnyAddress()
	    .ToPort(22)
	    .WithProtocol(SecurityRuleProtocol.Tcp)
	    .WithPriority(100)
	    .WithDescription("Allow SSH")
	    .Attach()
	.DefineRule("ALLOW-HTTP")
	    .AllowInbound()
	    .FromAnyAddress()
	    .FromAnyPort()
	    .ToAnyAddress()
	    .ToPort(80)
	    .WithProtocol(SecurityRuleProtocol.Tcp)
	    .WithPriority(101)
	    .WithDescription("Allow HTTP")
	    .Attach()
	.Create();

Create an Application Gateway

You can create a application gateway instance by using another define() … create() method chain.

var applicationGateway = azure.ApplicationGateways().Define("myFirstAppGateway")
    .WithRegion(Region.US_EAST)
    .WithExistingResourceGroup(resourceGroup)
    // Request routing rule for HTTP from public 80 to public 8080
    .DefineRequestRoutingRule("HTTP-80-to-8080")
        .FromPublicFrontend()
        .FromFrontendHttpPort(80)
        .ToBackendHttpPort(8080)
        .ToBackendIpAddress("11.1.1.1")
        .ToBackendIpAddress("11.1.1.2")
        .ToBackendIpAddress("11.1.1.3")
        .ToBackendIpAddress("11.1.1.4")
        .Attach()
    .WithExistingPublicIpAddress(publicIpAddress)
    .Create();

Create a Web App

You can create a Web App instance by using another define() … create() method chain.

var webApp = azure.WebApps()
    .Define(appName)
    .WithNewResourceGroup(rgName)
    .WithNewAppServicePlan(planName)
    .WithRegion(Region.US_WEST)
    .WithPricingTier(AppServicePricingTier.STANDARD_S1)
    .Create();

Create a SQL Database

You can create a SQL server instance by using another define() … create() method chain.

var sqlServer = azure.SqlServers.Define(sqlServerName)
    .WithRegion(Region.US_EAST)
    .WithNewResourceGroup(rgName)
    .WithAdministratorLogin(administratorLogin)
    .WithAdministratorPassword(administratorPassword)
    .WithNewFirewallRule(firewallRuleIpAddress)
    .WithNewFirewallRule(firewallRuleStartIpAddress, firewallRuleEndIpAddress)
    .Create();

Then, you can create a SQL database instance by using another define() … create() method chain.

var database = sqlServer.Databases.Define(databaseName)
    .Create();

#Sample Code

You can find plenty of sample code that illustrates management scenarios in Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Managed Disks, Storage, Networking, Resource Manager, SQL Database, App Service (Web Apps), Key Vault, Redis, CDN and Batch …

Service	Management Scenario
Virtual Machines	Manage virtual machine Manage availability set List virtual machine images Manage virtual machines using VM extensions List virtual machine extension images Create virtual machines from generalized image or specialized VHD Create virtual machine using custom image from virtual machine Create virtual machine using custom image from VHD Create virtual machine by importing a specialized operating system disk VHD Create virtual machine using specialized VHD from snapshot Convert virtual machines to use managed disks Manage virtual machine with unmanaged disks
Virtual Machines - parallel execution	Create multiple virtual machines in parallel Create multiple virtual machines with network in parallel Create multiple virtual machines across regions in parallel
Virtual Machine Scale Sets	Manage virtual machine scale sets (behind an Internet facing load balancer) Manage virtual machine scale sets with unmanaged disks
Storage	Manage storage accounts
Networking	Manage virtual network Manage network interface Manage network security group Manage IP address Manage Internet facing load balancers Manage internal load balancers
Networking - DNS	Host and manage domains
Traffic Manager	Manage traffic manager profiles
Application Gateway	Manage application gateways Manage application gateways with backend pools
SQL Database	Manage SQL databases Manage SQL databases in elastic pools Manage firewalls for SQL databases Manage SQL databases across regions
Redis Cache	Manage Redis Cache
App Service - Web Apps	Manage Web apps Manage Web apps with custom domains Configure deployment sources for Web apps Manage staging and production slots for Web apps Scale Web apps Manage storage connections for Web apps Manage data connections (such as SQL database and Redis cache) for Web apps
Resource Groups	Manage resource groups Manage resources Deploy resources with ARM templates Deploy resources with ARM templates (with progress) Deploy a virtual machine with managed disks using an ARM template
Key Vault	Manage key vaults
CDN	Manage CDNs
Batch	Manage batch accounts

Download

1.0 beta 5

1.0 beta 5 release builds are available on NuGet:

Azure Management Library | Package name | Stable (1.0 beta 5 release) -----------------------|-------------------------------------------|-----------------------------|------------------------- Azure Management Client (wrapper package) | Microsoft.Azure.Management.Fluent | App Service (Web Apps) | Microsoft.Azure.Management.AppService.Fluent | Batch | Microsoft.Azure.Management.Batch.Fluent | CDN | Microsoft.Azure.Management.Cdn.Fluent | Virtual Machines & Virtual Machine Scale Sets | Microsoft.Azure.Management.Compute.Fluent | DNS | Microsoft.Azure.Management.Dns.Fluent | Key Vault |Microsoft.Azure.Management.KeyVault.Fluent | Networking |Microsoft.Azure.Management.Network.Fluent | Redis Cache |Microsoft.Azure.Management.Redis.Fluent | Resource Manager |Microsoft.Azure.Management.ResourceManager.Fluent | SQL Database |Microsoft.Azure.Management.Sql.Fluent | Storage |Microsoft.Azure.Management.Storage.Fluent | Traffic Manager |Microsoft.Azure.Management.TrafficManager.Fluent |

#Pre-requisites

• .NET Core
• Azure Service Principal - see how to create authentication info.

Help

If you are migrating your code to 1.0 beta 5, you can use these notes for preparing your code for 1.0 beta 5 from 1.0 beta 4.

If you encounter any bugs with these libraries, please file issues via Issues and tag them Fluent or checkout StackOverflow for Azure Management Libraries for .NET.

#Contribute Code

If you would like to become an active contributor to this project please follow the instructions provided in Microsoft Azure Projects Contribution Guidelines.

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

#More Information

• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/develop/net/
• If you don't have a Microsoft Azure subscription you can get a FREE trial account here.

Previous Releases and Corresponding Repo Branches

Version	SHA1	Remarks
1.0.0-beta4	1.0.0-beta4	Tagged release for 1.0.0-beta4 version of Azure management libraries
1.0.0-beta3	1.0.0-beta3	Tagged release for 1.0.0-beta3 version of Azure management libraries
AutoRest	AutoRest	Main branch for AutoRest generated raw clients

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