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Vagrant Azure Provider
This is a Vagrant 1.5.2+ plugin that adds Microsoft Azure provider to Vagrant, allowing Vagrant to control and provision machines in Microsoft Azure.
NOTE: This plugin requires Vagrant 1.5.2+, and a Windows based workstation if creating Windows instances in Azure. Linux instances are supported with Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows workstations.
Usage
Install Vagrant 1.5.2 or higher - Download Vagrant
Install the vagrant-azure plugin using the standard Vagrant 1.1+ installation methods. After installing the plugin, you can vagrant up
and use azure
provider. For example:
C:\> vagrant plugin install vagrant-azure
...
C:\> vagrant up --provider=azure
...
You'll need an azure
box before you can do vagrant up
though.
Quick Start
You can use the dummy box and specify all the required details manually in the config.vm.provider
block in your Vagrantfile
. Add the dummy box with the name you want:
C:\> vagrant box add azure https://github.com/msopentech/vagrant-azure/raw/master/dummy.box
...
Now edit your Vagrantfile
as shown below and provide all the values as explained.
Vagrant.configure('2') do |config|
config.vm.box = 'azure'
config.vm.provider :azure do |azure|
azure.mgmt_certificate = 'YOUR AZURE MANAGEMENT CERTIFICATE'
azure.mgmt_endpoint = 'https://management.core.windows.net'
azure.subscription_id = 'YOUR AZURE SUBSCRIPTION ID'
azure.storage_acct_name = 'NAME OF YOUR STORAGE ACCOUNT' # optional. A new one will be generated if not provided.
azure.vm_image = 'NAME OF THE IMAGE TO USE'
azure.vm_user = 'PROVIDE A USERNAME' # defaults to 'vagrant' if not provided
azure.vm_password = 'PROVIDE A VALID PASSWORD' # min 8 characters. should contain a lower case letter, an uppercase letter, a number and a special character
azure.vm_name = 'PROVIDE A NAME FOR YOUR VIRTUAL MACHINE' # max 15 characters. contains letters, number and hyphens. can start with letters and can end with letters and numbers
azure.cloud_service_name = 'PROVIDE A NAME FOR YOUR CLOUD SERVICE' # same as vm_name. leave blank to auto-generate
azure.deployment_name = 'PROVIDE A NAME FOR YOUR DEPLOYMENT' # defaults to cloud_service_name
azure.vm_location = 'PROVIDE A LOCATION FOR VM' # e.g., West US
azure.ssh_private_key_file = 'PATH TO YOUR KEY FILE'
azure.ssh_certificate_file = 'PATH TO YOUR CERTIFICATE FILE'
# Provide the following values if creating a *Nix VM
azure.ssh_port = 'A VALID PUBLIC PORT'
# Provide the following values if creating a Windows VM
azure.winrm_transport = [ 'http', 'https' ] # this will open up winrm ports on both http (5985) and http (5986) ports
azure.winrm_https_port = 'A VALID PUBLIC PORT' # customize the winrm https port, instead of 5986
azure.winrm_http_port = 'A VALID PUBLIC PORT' # customize the winrm http port, insted of 5985
azure.tcp_endpoints = '3389:53389' # opens the Remote Desktop internal port that listens on public port 53389. Without this, you cannot RDP to a Windows VM.
end
config.ssh.username = 'YOUR USERNAME' # the one used to create the VM
config.ssh.password = 'YOUR PASSWORD' # the one used to create the VM
end
Now you can run
C:\> vagrant up --provider=azure
This will bring up an Azure VM as per the configuration options set above.
You can now either SSH (if its a *Nix VM) using vagrant ssh
, or RDP (if its a Windows VM) using vagrant rdp
.
Normally, a lot of this options, e.g., vm_image
, will be embedded in a box file and you just have to provide minimal options in the Vagrantfile
. Since, we're using a dummy box, there are no pre-configured defaults.
Azure Boxes
The vagrant-azure plugin provides the ability to use azure
boxes with Vagrant. Please see the example box provided in example_box/ directory and follow the instructions there to build an azure
box.
Please see Vagrant Docs for more details.
Configuration
The vagrant-azure provide exposes a few Azure specific configration options:
mgmt_certificate
- Your Azure Management certificate which has been uploaded to the Azure portal for your account.mgmt_endpoint
- Azure Management endpoint.https://management.core.windows.net
subscription_id
- Your Azure Subscription ID.storage_acct_name
- The Storage account to use when creating VMs.vm_user
- The username to create the VM with. Defaults tovagrant
.vm_password
- The password to set for the user created with the VM.vm_image
- The name of the image to be used when creating the VM.vm_name
- The name of the created VM.vm_size
- The size of the created VM.cloud_service_name
- The name of the cloud service under which to create the VM.deployment_name
- The name to give the deployment in the cloud service and add the VM to.vm_location
- The location to create the cloud service, storage account.ssh_private_key_file
- The private key file to use for SSH and if WinRM is enabled over HTTP/S.ssh_certificate_file
- The certificate file to use for SSH and if WinRM is enabled over HTTP/S.ssh_port
- To map the internal SSH port 22 to a different public port.winrm_transport
- Enables or disables WinRm. Allowed values arehttp
andhttps
.winrm_https_port
To map the internal WinRM https port 5986 to a different public port.winrm_http_port
To map the internal WinRM http port 5985 to a different public port.tcp_endpoints
- To open any additional ports. E.g.,80
opens port80
and80,3389:53389
opens port80
and3389
. Also maps the interal port3389
to public port53389
New Commands for azure
provider
The azure
provider introduces the following new vagrant
commands.
rdp
- To connect to a Windows VM using RDP. E.g.,
C:\> vagrant up --provider=azure
...
C:\> vagrant rdp
Multi Machine
The options for multi machines are similar to Vagrant, please refer to the vagrant doc at http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/multi-machine/index.html