Support for devtest lab VM operations?

[rjmholt]

Hi, I'm trying to create and manage a VM within a devtest lab.

I've found:

• How to create a VM using the Azure Portal UI
• How to create and manage VMs using the Azure CLI
• Deploying resources with Resource Manager templates and Azure PowerShell, combined with the Azure DevTestLab new VM template

But I'd really like to use PowerShell to do this (since I'm trying to write a PowerShell script/module to launch an environment to test PowerShell).

• Is this supported currently in Azure PowerShell and where can I read up on it?
• If not, is the best way to get this functionality from PowerShell to use ARM from a more generic cmdlet or maybe to use the .NET Azure SDK?
• In either of those cases where would the best place to read up on cobbling together an implementation of that?
• If this isn't implemented yet, is there somewhere I should move this request to?

Thanks for your help!

[cormacpayne]

@rjmholt Hey Robert, it appears that we don't have any cmdlets around this functionality in the AzureRM.DevTestLabs module, but the operations are in the SDK used by this module.

@ryanvog Hey Ryan, do you know if there are plans for the DevTestLabs team to implement cmdlets for these missing operations in the SDK?

[rjmholt]

Hey @cormacpayne, thanks for that info. I was actually playing around with exactly the source you linked when you responded. (For anyone curious, made a dummy dotnet core project with that as a dependency, published it and Add-Typed it).

Using the SDK directly with PowerShell isn't terribly ergonomic at present though, since it makes heavy use of partial classes and extension methods. I also noticed that the API types don't align closely to Azure PowerShell's, so plugging existing Azure PowerShell into the SDK requires a fair amount of massaging. But I think it is still possible.