Map of Azure Regions as of February 2018
I'm pleased to announce that my PowerShell for working with Azure’s public IP address listings now supports the new Azure Regions in France and Germany. This release, 0.9, introduces some minor breaking changes, needed to support the Germany regions.
Each month of so, I check the Microsoft Azure Datacenter IP Ranges file for new regions. This month, I noticed that the France Central and France South are included.
The Azure Germany regions, Germany Northeast and Germany Central, are managed under a trustee model by T-Systems. This is like that of Azure in China. I hadn’t seen the German regions IP ranges before, but last week I found the file: Windows Azure Datacenter IP Ranges in Germany. My goal always was to support every available Azure Region, as such, I've now included these regions.
I must admit, I didn’t fully design this module to be future proof, I assumed all regions would be included in a single file. I first included Azure in China in version 0.8, with the -ChinaRegion parameter. While functional, this wasn’t future proof. To offer support for Azure Germany, version 0.8 includes some breaking changes in the Get-MicrosoftAzureDatacenterIPRangeFile CMDLet.
With version 0.9, I've removed the -ChinaRegion parameter and replaced it with -Region. This new parameter takes one of 3 values: Standard, China or Germany. This parameter now has this behaviour:
- Standard: the default value, downloads the Microsoft Azure Datacenter IP Ranges file.
- China: downloads the Windows Azure Datacenter IP Ranges in China file
- Germany: downloads the Windows Azure Datacenter IP Ranges in Germany file
If you were separately downloading the China region file, you'll need to ensure that you update your scripts logic.
I've also tweaked Get-MicrosoftazureDatacenterIPRange. The first change was to add support for the extra file to download, and the parameter change. I've also modified the logic around how the CMDLet stores the region information. I don’t expect these changes to cause any issues.
Getting the Module
If you have never used the module before, the easiest way to get AzurePublicIPAddresses is through the PowerShell Gallery:
PS> Install-Module -Name AzurePublicIPAddressesIf you already have the module installed, you can update the module from the PowerShell Gallery with:
PS> Update-Module -Name AzurePublicIPAddressesYou can also find the module on GitHub.
Found an issue? Then raise any bugs or feature requests via GitHub Issues.
