sebbrochet/azure_win

Some testing with Ansible to configure a Windows Server 2012 R2 server hosted in Azure...

Some testing with Ansible to configure a Windows Server 2012 R2 server hosted in Azure...

VM creation on Azure

• You can either
  • Browse to https://github.com/sebbrochet/azure_win/tree/master/vm_creation and click on the Deploy to Azure button
  • or use Azure cli
    • azure group create RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME LOCATION
    • ex: azure group create winseb2012e westeurope
    • azure group deployment create --template-uri https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sebbrochet/azure_win/master/vm_creation/azuredeploy.json RESOURCE_GROUP_NAME firstDeployment
    • ex: azure group deployment create --template-uri https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sebbrochet/azure_win/master/vm_creation/azuredeploy.json winseb2012e firstDeployment

You'll need to provide username, password and DNS label for the VM.

Provisiong step

• You can either provision your node with Ansible or Chef
  • For Ansible, please have a look at provisioning/ansible
  • For Chef, please have a look at provisioning/chef
• In each case the playbook/cookbook will
  • Install IIS feature
  • Install Tomcat 8
  • Configure IIS to act as a reverse-proxy for Tomcat (http://localhost:8000)

Check the result

Browse http://<your DNS label>.<your location>.cloudapp.azure.com
Ex: http://winseb2012g.westeurope.cloudapp.azure.com

You should get Tomcat 8 default home page!