How to deploy to Azure with powershell?

Question

I want to deploy my application to azure with powershell. So far I have created a certificate in the localmachine store, I'm not going to run the deploy script as me, uploaded the script to azure. The next step is to get access to the service on azure in powershell but there it fails. The script I have so far is:

$cert = Get-Item Cert:\LocalMachine\deploy\xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Set-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionName $subscriptionName -SubscriptionId $subscriptionId -Certificate $cert
Select-AzureSubscription $subscriptionName
$service = Get-AzureService $azureId

It fails on the last row with the following message:

Get-AzureService : Communication could not be established. This could be due to an invalid subscription ID. Note that subscription IDs are case sensitive.
At F:\DeployTest\deploy.ps1:9 char:12
+ $service = Get-AzureService $azureId
+            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidData: (:) [Get-AzureService], Exception
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Management.ServiceManagement.HostedServices.GetAzureServiceCommand

Get-AzureService : HTTP Status Code: AuthenticationFailed - HTTP Error Message: The server failed to authenticate the request. Verify that the certificate is valid and is associated with this subscription.
Operation ID: 
At F:\DeployTest\deploy.ps1:9 char:12
+ $service = Get-AzureService $azureId
+            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : CloseError: (:) [Get-AzureService], CommunicationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Management.ServiceManagement.HostedServices.GetAzureServiceCommand

I really don't know what the problem is, the certificate I'm trying to use is uploaded so it feels like there is something fundamental I've missed.

Update: I did get it to work after downloading the .publishsettings-file and importing that instead of trying to use Set-AzureSubscription. I'm still a little bit confused though, shouldn't it be possible to use the method I tried above?

Answer 1

I finally found the problem, and of course it was a user problem. First when I was in the azure portal I didn't find where to upload the certificate, so I uploaded it to first place I found mentioning certificates. What I did found out was that this area was the wrong one, I uploaded the certificate to the certificate area under the cloud service I wanted to administrate, which is the wrong place.

The correct place to upload the certificate to is under settings in the admin portal of azure. So the code above works if the certificate is uploaded to the correct location.