🔗 Ligoj Azure VM plugin

Ligoj EC2 AWS plugin, and extending VM plugin Provides the following features :

• Supported operations from the VM plugin : ON, OFF, REBOOT, RESTART. No suspend or resume.
• Use AWS secret and access key with AWS API 4.0

Dashboard features :

• Status of the VM, including the intermediate busy mode
• OS
• DNS and IP
• Disk size
• CPU
• RAM

Subscription parameters

• Tenant ID (Directory ID)
• Application ID (Identifier of application account of ligoj)
• Key (secret token of application account of ligoj)
• Subscription ID
• Resource group name
• VM (RM) name

How to create/get these Azure parameters?

Tenant ID/Application ID and Key

Everything takes place in Azure Active Directory

• Navigate to RegisteredApps
• Click on "New application registration"
• Fill the form : Name="ligoj", Application type="Web app / API", Sign-on URL=ligoj URL, can be updated later
• "Create"
• Click on the created registration
• Copy the "Application ID"
• Click on "Keys" (right panel)
• In the "Passwords" panel, fill "Key Description" and "Duration", then "Save"
• Copy the one time displayed key value.
• Navigate to Properties
• Copy the "Directory ID", used as "Tenant ID" by Ligoj

Resource Group

Navigate to Resource groups Copy the resource group name Grant the rights to "ligoj" account on the selected resource group

Subscription

• Navigate to Cost Management + Billing
• Get the subscription id from one of your enabled subscription

Technical details

Used API is "Microsoft.Compute" (2017-03-30) Authentication is OAuth2, no required CLI to be installed Only RM type "VM" are supported, no "Classic". Only the VM name is stored, not its identifier. So a deleted VM and then recreated with the same name is not lost by ligoj.