Quickstart: Create a lab plan using Python and the Azure libraries (SDK) for Python

In this article you, as the admin, use Python and the Azure Python SDK to create a lab plan. Lab plans are used when creating labs for Azure Lab Services. You'll also add a role assignment so an educator can create labs based on the lab plan. For an overview of Azure Lab Services, see An introduction to Azure Lab Services.

Prerequisites

• An Azure account with an active subscription. Create an account for free.
• Setup Local Python dev environment for Azure.
• The requirements.txt can be downloaded from the Azure Python samples

Create a lab plan

The following steps will show you how to create a lab plan. Any properties set in the lab plan will be used in labs created with this plan.

# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
# Licensed under the MIT License. See License.txt in the project root for
# license information.
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------

import os
import time
from datetime import timedelta
from azure.identity import DefaultAzureCredential
from azure.mgmt.labservices import LabServicesClient
from azure.mgmt.resource import ResourceManagementClient

def main():

    SUBSCRIPTION_ID = "<Subscription ID>"
    TIME = str(time.time()).replace('.','')
    GROUP_NAME = "BellowsCollege_rg"
    LABPLAN = "BellowsCollege_labplan"
    LAB = "BellowsCollege_lab"
    LOCATION = 'southcentralus'    

    # Create clients
    # # For other authentication approaches, please see: https://pypi.org/project/azure-identity/
    resource_client = ResourceManagementClient(
        credential=DefaultAzureCredential(),
        subscription_id=SUBSCRIPTION_ID
    )
    
    labservices_client = LabServicesClient(
        credential=DefaultAzureCredential(),
        subscription_id=SUBSCRIPTION_ID
    )

    # Create resource group
    resource_client.resource_groups.create_or_update(
        GROUP_NAME,
        {"location": LOCATION}
    )

    # Create lab services lab plan
    LABPLANBODY = {
        "location" : LOCATION,
        "properties" : {
            "defaultConnectionProfile" : {
                "webSshAccess" : "None",
                "webRdpAccess" : "None",
                "clientSshAccess" : "None",
                "clientRdpAccess" : "Public"
            },
            "defaultAutoShutdownProfile" : {
                "shutdownOnDisconnect" : "Disabled",
                "shutdownWhenNotConnected" : "Disabled",
                "shutdownOnIdle" : "None"
            },
            "allowedRegions" : [LOCATION],
            "supportInfo" : {
                "email" : "user@bellowscollege.com",
                "phone" : "123-123-1234",
                "instructions" : "Bellows College support."
            }
        }
    }

    #Create Lab Plan
    poller = labservices_client.lab_plans.begin_create_or_update(
        GROUP_NAME,
        LABPLAN,
        LABPLANBODY
    )

    # Poll for long running execution.
    labplan_result = poller.result()
    print(f"Created Lab Plan: {labplan_result.name}")

    # Get LabServices Lab Plans by resource group
    labservices_client.lab_plans.list_by_resource_group(
        GROUP_NAME
    )

    #Get single LabServices Lab Plan
    labservices_labplan = labservices_client.lab_plans.get(GROUP_NAME, LABPLAN)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Clean up resources

If you're not going to continue to use this application, delete the lab with the following steps:

# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
# Licensed under the MIT License. See License.txt in the project root for
# license information.
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------

from datetime import timedelta
import time
from azure.identity import DefaultAzureCredential
from azure.mgmt.labservices import LabServicesClient
from azure.mgmt.resource import ResourceManagementClient

# - other dependence -
# - end -
#

def main():

    SUBSCRIPTION_ID = "<Subscription ID>"
    TIME = str(time.time()).replace('.','')
    GROUP_NAME = "BellowsCollege_rg" + TIME
    LABPLAN = "BellowsCollege_labplan" + TIME
    LAB = "BellowsCollege_lab" + TIME
    LOCATION = 'southcentralus'    

    # Create clients
    # # For other authentication approaches, please see: https://pypi.org/project/azure-identity/
    resource_client = ResourceManagementClient(
        credential=DefaultAzureCredential(),
        subscription_id=SUBSCRIPTION_ID
    )
    
    labservices_client = LabServicesClient(
        credential=DefaultAzureCredential(),
        subscription_id=SUBSCRIPTION_ID
    )

    # Delete Lab
    labservices_client.labs.begin_delete(
        GROUP_NAME,
        LAB
    ).result()
    print("Deleted lab.\n")

    # Delete Group
    resource_client.resource_groups.begin_delete(
        GROUP_NAME
    ).result()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Next steps

In this QuickStart, you created a resource group and a lab plan. As an admin, you can learn more about Azure PowerShell module and Az.LabServices cmdlets.

Quickstart: Create a lab using Python and the Azure Python SDK