Automate Azure tasks with Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets

The ability to run Windows Azure tasks from the command-line and thus also automate such tasks was introduced with Windows Azure SDK 1.3.

Starting with Windows Azure SDK 1.8,  it is possible to manage Windows Azure Websites with the following cmdlets:

• New-AzureWebSite
• Get-AzureWebsite
• Remove-AzureWebsite
• Set-AzureWebsite
• Show-AzureWebSite
• Start-AzureWebSite
• Stop-AzureWebSite

Here is the complete list of currently supported Windows Azure PowerShell cmdlets (via the PowerShell command get-command -module azure | format-table -property name ):

1. Add-AzureCacheWorkerRole
2. Add-AzureCertificate
3. Add-AzureDataDisk
4. Add-AzureDisk
5. Add-AzureDjangoWebRole
6. Add-AzureEndpoint
7. Add-AzureNodeWebRole
8. Add-AzureNodeWorkerRole
9. Add-AzurePHPWebRole
10. Add-AzurePHPWorkerRole
11. Add-AzureProvisioningConfig
12. Add-AzureVhd
13. Add-AzureVMImage
14. Disable-AzureServiceProjectRemoteDesktop
15. Enable-AzureMemcacheRole
16. Enable-AzureServiceProjectRemoteDesktop
17. Export-AzureVM
18. Get-AzureAffinityGroup
19. Get-AzureCertificate
20. Get-AzureDataDisk
21. Get-AzureDeployment
22. Get-AzureDisk
23. Get-AzureDns
24. Get-AzureEndpoint
25. Get-AzureLocation
26. Get-AzureOSDisk
27. Get-AzureOSVersion
28. Get-AzurePublishSettingsFile
29. Get-AzureRemoteDesktopFile
30. Get-AzureRole
31. Get-AzureSBLocation
32. Get-AzureSBNamespace
33. Get-AzureService
34. Get-AzureServiceProjectRoleRuntime
35. Get-AzureSqlDatabase
36. Get-AzureSqlDatabaseServer
37. Get-AzureSqlDatabaseServerFirewallRule
38. Get-AzureStorageAccount
39. Get-AzureStorageKey
40. Get-AzureSubnet
41. Get-AzureSubscription
42. Get-AzureVM
43. Get-AzureVMImage
44. Get-AzureVNetConfig
45. Get-AzureVNetConnection
46. Get-AzureVNetGateway
47. Get-AzureVNetGatewayKey
48. Get-AzureVNetSite
49. Get-AzureWebsite
50. Get-AzureWebsiteDeployment
51. Get-AzureWebsiteLocation
52. Import-AzurePublishSettingsFile
53. Import-AzureVM
54. Move-AzureDeployment
55. New-AzureAffinityGroup
56. New-AzureCertificateSetting
57. New-AzureDeployment
58. New-AzureDns
59. New-AzureQuickVM
60. New-AzureSBNamespace
61. New-AzureService
62. New-AzureServiceProject
63. New-AzureSqlDatabase
64. New-AzureSqlDatabaseServer
65. New-AzureSqlDatabaseServerContext
66. New-AzureSqlDatabaseServerFirewallRule
67. New-AzureSSHKey
68. New-AzureStorageAccount
69. New-AzureStorageKey
70. New-AzureVM
71. New-AzureVMConfig
72. New-AzureVNetGateway
73. New-AzureWebsite
74. Publish-AzureServiceProject
75. Remove-AzureAffinityGroup
76. Remove-AzureCertificate
77. Remove-AzureDataDisk
78. Remove-AzureDeployment
79. Remove-AzureDisk
80. Remove-AzureEndpoint
81. Remove-AzureSBNamespace
82. Remove-AzureService
83. Remove-AzureSqlDatabase
84. Remove-AzureSqlDatabaseServer
85. Remove-AzureSqlDatabaseServerFirewallRule
86. Remove-AzureStorageAccount
87. Remove-AzureSubscription
88. Remove-AzureVM
89. Remove-AzureVMImage
90. Remove-AzureVNetConfig
91. Remove-AzureVNetGateway
92. Remove-AzureWebsite
93. Reset-AzureRoleInstance
94. Restart-AzureVM
95. Restart-AzureWebsite
96. Restore-AzureWebsiteDeployment
97. Save-AzureVMImage
98. Save-AzureWebsiteLog
99. Select-AzureSubscription
100. Set-AzureAffinityGroup
101. Set-AzureDataDisk
102. Set-AzureDeployment
103. Set-AzureEndpoint
104. Set-AzureOSDisk
105. Set-AzureRole
106. Set-AzureService
107. Set-AzureServiceProject
108. Set-AzureServiceProjectRole
109. Set-AzureSqlDatabase
110. Set-AzureSqlDatabaseServer
111. Set-AzureSqlDatabaseServerFirewallRule
112. Set-AzureStorageAccount
113. Set-AzureSubnet
114. Set-AzureSubscription
115. Set-AzureVMSize
116. Set-AzureVNetConfig
117. Set-AzureVNetGateway
118. Set-AzureWalkUpgradeDomain
119. Set-AzureWebsite
120. Show-AzurePortal
121. Show-AzureWebsite
122. Start-AzureEmulator
123. Start-AzureService
124. Start-AzureVM
125. Start-AzureWebsite
126. Stop-AzureEmulator
127. Stop-AzureService
128. Stop-AzureVM
129. Stop-AzureWebsite
130. Test-AzureName
131. Update-AzureDisk
132. Update-AzureVM
133. Update-AzureVMImage

Not all of these cmdlets are covered currently in the Windows Azure Cmdlet Reference.

Related: Pluralsight Introduction to PowerShell Course - Notes