Create Azure Cloud Service in a specific Resource Group from PowerShell

1New-AzureService -ServiceName $ServiceName -Location "$Location"

 1param(
 2 [Parameter(Mandatory=$True)]
 3 [string]
 4 $ServiceName,
 5  
 6 [Parameter(Mandatory=$True)]
 7 [string]
 8 $Location,
 9  
10 [Parameter(Mandatory=$True)]
11 [string]
12 $ResourceGroupName
13)
14 
15#This script prepares cloud service. If cloud service exists by name it does nothing.
16#Otherwise a new cloud service is created in specified resource group.
17 
18Write-Host "Preparing cloud service '$ServiceName' in resource group '$ResourceGroupName' in '$Location'..."
19 
20Function WaitForService {
21    Param(
22        [string]$ResourceGroupName,
23         
24        [int]$Retries = 10
25    )
26 
27    $tried = 0;
28     
29    while($tried -le $Retries)
30    {
31        try
32        {
33            $cloudService = Get-AzureRmResource -ResourceName "$ServiceName" -ResourceGroupName "$ServiceName"
34            Write-Host "[service ready]" -ForegroundColor Green
35            return $cloudService
36        }
37        catch
38        {
39            Write-Host "[service not ready yet]" -ForegroundColor Red
40            #Write-Host "$($_.Exception)"
41            Start-Sleep 5
42        }
43    }
44}
45 
46#create or get service
47$service =  Get-AzureService -ServiceName "$ServiceName" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
48if($service)
49{
50    Write-Host "Using existing service '$ServiceName'";
51}
52else
53{
54    #Note that Azure doesn't support creating cloud services inside specified resource groups
55    Write-Host "No service exists, creating new..."
56    New-AzureService -ServiceName $ServiceName -Location "$Location"
57     
58    Write-Host "Looking for the new cloud service..."
59    #it turns out that service does not become available immediately hence wait for it in a loop
60    $cloudService = WaitForService($ServiceName, 50); 
61    $cloudServiceId = $cloudService.ResourceId;
62     
63    #In order to have the service in desired resource group it has to be moved explicitly
64    Write-Host "Moving '$ServiceName' ($cloudServiceId) to resource group '$ResourceGroupName'..."
65    Move-AzureRmResource -DestinationResourceGroupName "$ResourceGroupName" -ResourceId $cloudService.ResourceId -Force
66     
67    #Delete the pre-created resource group. New-AzureService will create a new resource group with same name
68    #as service name, and because service is now moved to a new group old one can be killed.
69    Write-Host "Removing resoure group '$ServiceName'..."
70    Remove-AzureRmResourceGroup -Name "$ServiceName" -Force
71}
72 
73Write-Host "[service online]" -ForegroundColor Green