Questions about Using Powershell to creating a REST Service.

[JC0133]

We are using powershell 5.1 and Azure/AzureRM.

So I created a post asking a different question about a similar topic, not sure if I should have just posted to that one. If so I am sorry.

So I am working a internship first one and I need to use powershell to create a dummy service, to send to our APIM (API manager).

Not sure if I need to do something in APIM or not to be honest.

The point is to back get back a HTTP response that is 200. I believe this is a way of checking if the APIM is up and running correctly.

Very very new to using REST and Powershell. So any help would be appreciated.

I tried to use Azure API Management Cmdlets hoping one of them simply returned the HTTP status of the APIM but I couldn't find one that does.

So I have been trying to find videos of how to create a service using powershell, I keep finding videos of how to simple run the GET method.

So if anybody can help me I would appreciate it. Whether it is examples, tutorials or videos.

 

[mxnerd]

Searched.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=powershell+invoke-restmethod

 

[Ken g6]

If you're trying to create a service you need to create a server, not invoke a method on a server you don't have yet.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=powershell+http+server

I really don't know PowerShell, but this looks simple enough to be a useful template: https://gist.github.com/19WAS85/5424431

 

[mxnerd]

If you're trying to create a service you need to create a server, not invoke a method on a server you don't have yet.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=powershell+http+server

I really don't know PowerShell, but this looks simple enough to be a useful template: https://gist.github.com/19WAS85/5424431

Yep, really confused whether OP wants to create a server/service or just uses RESTful API on Azure service.

 

[KentState]

Sounded like the OP just wanted to do a simple GET request against their APM service. Otherwise I'm confused as well.


This was an example from the doc that might related to what you are trying.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/po...l.utility/invoke-restmethod?view=powershell-6

$Cred = Get-Credential
$Url = "https://server.contoso.com:8089/services/search/jobs/export"
$Body = @{
    search = "search index=_internal | reverse | table index,host,source,sourcetype,_raw"
    output_mode = "csv"
    earliest_time = "-2d@d"
    latest_time = "-1d@d"
}
Invoke-RestMethod -Method 'Post' -Uri $url -Credential $Cred -Body $body -OutFile output.csv

 

[Cogman]

OP, I have to ask, why powershell?

I ask because it isn't really all that popular of a technology. Because you mentioned Azure, I'm also wondering why you aren't using docker? You can use pretty much any tech in that.

If the objective is to call a rest endpoint, then curl is probably the simplest way to do that.
If the objective is to create a server, then I'd start with a scripting language (python is pretty popular) and if I needed it to be fast I'd write it in Java.

 

[JC0133]

Thanks for all of your help. I finished my project.

Um I was just told to user powershell lol.