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Azure Runbooks.md

I've been working with Azure runbooks and I ocassionally actually dump the default scripts that are generated from the portal and run them. This last time, I spent a little time cleaning it up to keep around.

I'll probably share the completed thing later, but I wanted to post this correction right away because it's pretty confusing.

There's an internal private function in the generated Deploy.ps1 which looks like this, but really should just be a one-liner like this:

"microsoft.compute", "microsoft.network" | Register-AzureRmResourceProvider -ProviderNamespace { $_ }

Deploy.ps1

# See these two bits, the function, and the call to the function (which is slightly further down the default script):
Function RegisterRP {
    Param(
        [string]$ResourceProviderNamespace
    )

    Write-Host "Registering resource provider '$ResourceProviderNamespace'";
    Register-AzureRmResourceProvider -ProviderNamespace $ResourceProviderNamespace;
}


# Register RPs
$resourceProviders = @("microsoft.compute", "microsoft.network");
if ($resourceProviders.length) {
    Write-Host "Registering resource providers"
    foreach ($resourceProvider in $resourceProviders) {
        RegisterRP($resourceProvider);
    }
}