azure-extensions-cli

⚠️⚠️ This tool is intended only for publishers of Azure VM extensions. If you are not an Azure employee or a whitelisted extension publisher, there is nothing here for you.

This command line interface is a simple wrapper on top of RDFE Extension Publishing APIs.

With this command-line interface you can:

• Upload an extension .zip package as a new extension or a new version.
• Promote versions to required rollout slices.
• List all extension versions published.
• Get replication status of an extension version.
• Mark a version as internal and delete a version.

Usage

Make sure you have:

• a subscription ID that has extension publishing enabled
• and a .pem file used as the subscription management certificate

Instead of passing these arguments over and over to the CLI, you can simply set environment variables:

export SUBSCRIPTION_ID=xxxx-xxxxx-xxxxxx...
export SUBSCRIPTION_CERT=/path/to/cert.pem
export MANAGEMENT_URL=https://management.core.windows.net

Please use the following management URLs to cloud mappings:

• Global :: https://management.core.windows.net
• China :: https://management.core.chinacloudapi.cn
• Germany :: https://management.core.cloudapi.de
• US Government :: https://management.core.usgovcloudapi.net

If you are always operating on the same extension, you can also set:

export EXTENSION_NAMESPACE=Microsoft.Azure.Extensions
export EXTENSION_NAME=FooExtension

Then use help to explore the commands and arguments.

./azure-extensions-cli --help

NOTE: If you are not familiar with extension publishing process (i.e. slices, behaviors of extension pipeline) you should read the relevant documentation first.

CLI

This might not be up-to-date, but to give an idea, here are the subcommands

$./azure-extensions-cli
NAME:
   azure-extensions-cli - This tool is designed for Microsoft internal extension publishers
    to release, update and manage Virtual Machine extensions.

USAGE:
   azure-extensions-cli [global options] command [command options] [arguments...]

COMMANDS:
   new-extension-manifest   Creates an XML file used to publish or update extension.
   new-extension		    Creates a new type of extension, not for releasing new versions.
   new-extension-version    Publishes a new type of extension internally.
   promote                  Promote published internal extension to one or more PROD Locations.
   promote-all-regions      Promote published extension to all PROD Locations.
   list-versions		    Lists all published extension versions for subscription
   replication-status		Retrieves replication status for an uploaded extension package
   unpublish-version		Marks the specified version of the extension internal. Does not delete.
   delete-version		    Deletes the extension version. It should be unpublished first.
   help, h	                Shows a list of commands or help for one command

GLOBAL OPTIONS:
   --help, -h		show help
   --version, -v	print the version 

Installing (or building from source)

You can head over to the Releases section to download a binary built for various platforms.

If you need to compile from the source code, make sure you have Go compiler 1.6+ installed. Check out the project, set the GOPATH environment variable correctly (if necessary) and run go build. This should compile a binary.

Overview

The CLI makes it easy (easier) to publish an Azure extension. An example workflow is provided below. This workflow assumes an extension type already exists, which is why the command new-extension-version is used. (If the type does not exist use substitute for the command new-extension instead.)

Not all command line parameters are shown for each command, only the salient options are shown.

Step 1 - create an extension manifest.

1. ./azure-extensions-cli new-extension-manifest

Step 2 - publish an extension internally.

1. ./azure-extensions-cli new-extension-version

Step 3 - rollout the extension to Azure, by slowly including more and more regions. It is recommended that you pause 24 hours between regions.

Every time a new region is added, the previous regions must be included with the promote command.

1. ./azure-extensions-cli promote --region "West Central US"
2. ./azure-extensions-cli promote --region "West Central US" --region "North Central US"
3. ./azure-extensions-cli promote --region "West Central US" --region "North Central US" --region "West US"
4. ./azure-extensions-cli promote ...

Step 4 - promote the extension to all Azure regions.

1. ./azure-extensions-cli promote-all-regions

Regions

As of 13-Sept-2017 this is the list of regions available for the public cloud.

Service Management	Resource Manager
Australia East	australiaeast
Australia Southeast	australiasoutheast
Brazil South	brazilsouth
Canada Central	canadacentral
Canada East	canadaeast
Central India	centralindia
Central US	centralus
Central US EUAP	centraluseuap
East Asia	eastasia
East US	eastus
East US 2	eastus2
East US 2 EUAP	eastus2euap
Japan East	japaneast
Japan West	japanwest
Korea Central	koreacentral
Korea South	koreasouth
North Central US	northcentralus
North Europe	northeurope
South Central US	southcentralus
South India	southindia
Southeast Asia	southeastasia
UK South	uksouth
UK West	ukwest
West Central US	westcentra
West Europe	westeurope
West India	westindia
West US	westus
West US 2	westus2

TODO

• make replication-status exit with appropriate code if replication is not completed.
• make replication-status --wait arg to poll until replication completes.
• add replication-status --json flag to output for a programmable output.

License

See LICENSE.

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