Copying firewall rules between two Azure SQL servers
Recently I've setup active geo-replication for my database hosted on Azure which basically allows you to asynchronously replicate transactions held on a primary
database to a secondary
database (usually located in a different geographical region) which is set to read only.
The problem was, in a failover/disaster recovery situation, for the secondary to be usable, I would have to manually add all the existing firewall rules on the primary
to the secondary
which may be updated from time to time so why not automate it? I've got this running as an timer based Azure Function to run daily.
Usage
copy-firewall-rules.ps1 -sourceResourceGroup 'my-rg' -sourceSqlServerName 'my-primary-server' -targetResourceGroup 'some-other-rg' -targetSqlServer 'my-secondary-server'
copy-firewall-rules.ps1
param(
[string]$sourceResourceGroup,
[string]$sourceSqlServerName,
[string]$targetResourceGroup,
[string]$targetSqlServer
)
function Copy-AzureSQLServerFirewallRules([string]$sourceResourceGroup, [string]$sourceSqlServerName, [string]$targetResourceGroup, [string]$targetSqlServer)
{
## First remove existing rules from target server
$existingfirewallRules = Get-AzureRmSqlServerFirewallRule -ResourceGroupName $targetResourceGroup -ServerName $targetServerName
foreach($rule in $existingfirewallRules)
{
Write-Host Removing rule : $rule.FireWallRuleName from $targetServerName
Remove-AzureRmSqlServerFirewallRule -FirewallRuleName $rule.FirewallRuleName -ResourceGroupName $targetResourceGroup -ServerName $targetServerName
}
## Add firewall rules to target based on source
$sourceFirewallRules = Get-AzureRmSqlServerFirewallRule -ResourceGroupName $sourceResourceGroup -ServerName $sourceSqlServerName
foreach($r in $sourceFirewallRules)
{
Write-Host Adding Rule : $r.FirewallRuleName to $targetServerName
New-AzureRmSqlServerFirewallRule -ServerName $targetServerName -ResourceGroupName $targetResourceGroup -StartIpAddress $r.StartIpAddress -EndIpAddress $r.EndIpAddress -FirewallRuleName $r.FirewallRuleName
}
}
Copy-AzureSQLServerFirewallRules -sourceResourceGroup $sourceResourceGroup -sourceSqlServerName $sourceSqlServerName -targetResourceGroup $targetResourceGroup -targetSqlServer $targetSqlServer