DEPLOYING APPLICATIONS TO AN AZURE VIRTUAL MACHINE WITH A CUSTOM SCRIPT EXTENSION

 

In a production environment, it will sometimes be necessary to deploy an application to several virtual machines quickly and with an identical configuration.  An elegant remote-installation solution in cases such as these is the use of Custom Script Extensions for Windows

Leveraging Custom Script Extensions allows you to, among other things, remotely install applications right from your PowerShell session.

In this tutorial you will learn how to deploy an Azure storage account, connect to it remotely, and provision blob storage and file share storage in it.  You'll also learn how to create an installation script and how to configure a Custom Script Extension to install an application.

When you finish this tutorial, you will have learned a valuable skill that many IT professionals have overlooked.

You can download the guide or enroll in one of my complete online video courses.

Happy Learning!