Poor mans Azure IaaS templating-Deploy

Deploy template.ps1

# Read the contents
$pathToFile = "d:\somedir\somefile"
$vms = ConvertFrom-Json (Get-Content -Path $pathToFile | Out-String)

$vmsToBeCreated = @()

# Now loop over the objects and build the provisioning congs...

foreach ($vm in $vms)
{
    $serviceName = $vm.ServiceName + "somenewsuffix"

    $service = Get-AzureService -ServiceName $serviceName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
    if ($service -eq $null)
    {
        New-AzureService -ServiceName $serviceName -Location $targetRegion
    } 
    
    $vmName = $vm.Name
    $instanceSize = $vm.InstanceSize
    
    # Just to differentiate the availability set name with a naming convention
    $availabilitySetName = $vm.AvailabilitySetName + "dr"

    # Get the configuration set type of networkconfiguration. 
    $networkConfiguration = $vm.VM.ConfigurationSets | Where-Object {$_.ConfigurationSetType -eq "NetworkConfiguration"}
    $subnetName = $null
    $staticvnetIpAddress = ""

    if ($networkConfiguration) {
        $subnetName = $networkConfiguration.SubnetNames[0]
        $staticvnetIpAddress = $networkConfiguration.StaticVirtualNetworkIPAddress
    }

    if ($availabilitySetName)
    {
        $vmConfig = New-AzureVMConfig -Name $vmName -InstanceSize $instanceSize -ImageName $imageName -AvailabilitySetName $availabilitySetName
    }
    else
    {
        $vmConfig = New-AzureVMConfig -Name $vmName -InstanceSize $instanceSize -ImageName $imageName         
    }

    # Using the disableSSH flag here makes sure the default SSH endpoint does not get created
    $vmConfig = $vmConfig | 
        Add-AzureProvisioningConfig -Linux -LinuxUser $userName -Password $password -DisableSSH 

    if ($subnetName)
    {
        $vmConfig = $vmConfig | Set-AzureSubnet -SubnetNames $subnetName 
    }

    if ($staticvnetIpAddress)
    {
        $vmConfig = $vmConfig | Set-AzureStaticVNetIP -IPAddress $staticvnetIpAddress
    }
    
    foreach ($disk in $vm.VM.DataVirtualHardDisks)
    {
        if (!$disk.Disklabel)
        {
            $disk.Disklabel = "Data"
        }
        
        $vmConfig = $vmConfig | Add-AzureDataDisk -CreateNew -DiskSizeInGB $disk.LogicalDiskSizeInGB -DiskLabel $disk.Disklabel -LUN $disk.Lun
    }    
     
    $vmsToBeCreated += $vmConfig 
}

# At this point you have a set of VMs in the array $vmsToBeCreated and you can deploy them any place you want