Create infrastructure for Azure WebJob using PowerShell

Azure infrastructure for Azure WebJob consists from following resources:

  • App Service Plan – scalable cluster of web servers
  • Web App – hosting environment running on App Service plan
  • Storage Account – stores data about Azure WebJob execution
  • Application Insights – monitoring

All there resources can be created using following PowerShell script:

param
(
    $resourceGroup = $(throw "Resource group is required"),
    $location = "westeurope"
)

$resourceGroupLower = $resourceGroup.ToLower()

New-AzResourceGroup -Name $resourceGroup -Location $location -ErrorAction Stop

New-AzAppServicePlan -Name $resourceGroup -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup `
    -Location $location -Tier Basic -WorkerSize Small -NumberofWorkers 1 -ErrorAction Stop

New-AzWebApp -Name $resourceGroupLower -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup `
    -Location $location -AppServicePlan $resourceGroup -ErrorAction Stop

New-AzStorageAccount -Name $resourceGroupLower -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup `
    -Location $location -SkuName Standard_LRS -Kind StorageV2 -ErrorAction Stop

New-AzApplicationInsights -Name $resourceGroup -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup `
    -Location $location -Kind web -ErrorAction Stop

PowerShell script has following parameters:

  • $resourceGroup – resource group name
  • $location – location name with West Europe as default value


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