Change failover priority or trigger failover for an Azure Cosmos DB account with single write region by using PowerShell
APPLIES TO: NoSQL MongoDB Cassandra Gremlin Table
Note
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Sample script
Note
Any change to a region with failoverPriority=0
triggers a manual failover and can only be done to an account configured for manual failover. Changes to all other regions simply changes the failover priority for an Azure Cosmos DB account.
Note
This sample demonstrates using a API for NoSQL account. To use this sample for other APIs, copy the related properties and apply to your API specific script
# Reference: Az.CosmosDB | https://docs.microsoft.com/powershell/module/az.cosmosdb
# --------------------------------------------------
# Purpose
# Update Cosmos DB account: Change region failover priority.
# Note: updating location at priority 0 triggers a failover to the new location
# --------------------------------------------------
# Variables - ***** SUBSTITUTE YOUR VALUES *****
$resourceGroupName = "myResourceGroup" # Resource Group must already exist
$accountName = "myaccount" # Must be all lower case
$locations = @("West US", "East US") # Regions ordered by UPDATED failover priority
# --------------------------------------------------
# Get existing Cosmos DB account
$account = Get-AzCosmosDBAccount -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName -Name $accountName
# Update account failover priority
Update-AzCosmosDBAccountFailoverPriority -InputObject $account -FailoverPolicy $locations
Clean up deployment
After the script sample has been run, the following command can be used to remove the resource group and all resources associated with it.
Remove-AzResourceGroup -ResourceGroupName "myResourceGroup"
Script explanation
This script uses the following commands. Each command in the table links to command specific documentation.
Command | Notes |
---|---|
Azure Cosmos DB | |
Get-AzCosmosDBAccount | Lists Azure Cosmos DB Accounts, or gets a specified Azure Cosmos DB Account. |
Update-AzCosmosDBAccountFailoverPriority | Update the failover priority order of an Azure Cosmos DB Account's regions. |
Azure Resource Groups | |
Remove-AzResourceGroup | Deletes a resource group including all nested resources. |
Next steps
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