VMSS Gallery Item

Tool to add VM Scale Set gallery item to Azure Stack

Author: igorse

ComputeAdmin/AzureStack.ComputeAdmin.psm1

@@ -3,6 +3,42 @@
 
 #requires -Modules AzureStack.Connect
 
+function Add-AzureStackVMSSGalleryItem {
+
+    $rgName = "vmss.gallery"
+
+    New-AzureRmResourceGroup -Name $rgName -Location local -Force
+
+    $saName = "vmssgallery"
+
+    $sa = New-AzureRmStorageAccount -ResourceGroupName $rgName -Location local -Name $saName -Type Standard_LRS
+
+    $cName = "gallery"
+
+    Set-AzureRmCurrentStorageAccount -StorageAccountName $saName -ResourceGroupName $rgName
+
+    $container = Get-AzureStorageContainer -Name $cName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
+    if (-not ($container)) {
+        New-AzureStorageContainer -Name $cName -Permission Blob
+    }
+    
+    $fileName = "microsoft.vmss.1.3.6.azpkg"
+
+    $blob = $container| Set-AzureStorageBlobContent –File ([System.IO.Path]::GetDirectoryName($PSCommandPath) + "\" + $fileName)  –Blob $fileName -Force
+
+    $uri = $blob.Context.BlobEndPoint + $container.Name + "/" + $blob.Name    
+
+     Add-AzureRMGalleryItem -GalleryItemUri $uri
+}
+
+function Remove-AzureStackVMSSGalleryItem {
+    $item = Get-AzureRMGalleryItem -Name "microsoft.vmss.1.3.6"
+    if($item) {
+        $request = $item | Remove-AzureRMGalleryItem
+        $item
+    }
+}
+
 <#
     .SYNOPSIS
     Contains 6 functions.

ComputeAdmin/README.md

@@ -94,9 +94,36 @@ $path = "<Path to vm extension zip>"
 Add-VMExtension -publisher $publisher -version $version -extensionLocalPath $path -osType Windows -tenantID $aadTenant -azureStackCredentials $azureStackCredentials -type "CustomVmExtension"  
 ```
 
-# Remove a VM extension with PowerShell
+## Remove a VM extension with PowerShell
 Run the below command to remove an uploaded VM extension.
 
 ```powershell
 Remove-VMExtension -publisher $publisher -version $version -osType Windows -tenantID $tenantId -azureStackCredentials $azureStackCredentials -type "CustomVmExtension"
-```
+```
+
+## Add VM scale set gallery item
+
+VM Scale Set allows deployment of multi-VM collections. To add a gallery item with VM Scale Set:
+
+1. Add evaluation Windows Server 2016 image using New-Server2016VMImage as described above.
+
+2. For linux support, download Ubuntu Server 16.04 and add it using Add-VmImage with the following parameters -publisher "Canonical" -offer "UbuntuServer" -sku "16.04-LTS"
+
+3. Add VM Scale Set gallery item as follows
+
+```powershell
+$Tenant = "<AAD Tenant Id used to connect to sazure stack>"
+$Arm = "<AzureStack administrative Azure Resource Manager endpoint URL>"
+
+Add-AzureStackAzureRmEnvironment -Name AzureStackAdmin -ArmEndpoint $Arm -AadTenant $Tenant
+
+$Password = ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force "<your AzureStack admin user password>"
+$User = "<your AzureStack admin user name>"
+$Creds =  New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential $User, $Password
+
+Login-AzureRmAccount -EnvironmentName AzureStackAdmin -Credential $Creds -TenantId $Tenant
+
+Select-AzureRmSubscription -SubscriptionName "Default Provider Subscription"
+
+Add-AzureStackVMSSGalleryItem
+```