Azure Automation
Microsoft Azure Essentials


Book Details
Author | Michael McKeown |
Publisher | Microsoft Press |
Published | 2015 |
Edition | 1st |
Paperback | 116 pages |
Language | English |
ISBN-13 | 9780735698154 |
ISBN-10 | 0735698155 |
License | Open Access |
Book Description
This ebook introduces a fairly new feature of Microsoft Azure called Azure Automation. Using a highly scalable workflow execution environment, Azure Automation allows you to orchestrate frequent deployment and life cycle management tasks using runbooks based on Windows PowerShell Workflow functionality. These runbooks are stored in and backed up by Azure. By automating runbooks, you can greatly minimize the occurrence of errors when carrying out repeated tasks and process automation.
This ebook discusses the creation and authoring of the runbooks along with their deployment and troubleshooting. Microsoft has provided some sample runbooks after which you can pattern your runbooks, copy and modify, or use as-is to help your scripts be more effective and concise. This ebook explores uses of some of those sample runbooks.
This ebook exists to help IT pros and Windows PowerShell developers understand the core concepts around Azure Automation. It's especially useful for IT pros looking for ways to automate their common Azure PaaS and IaaS application duties such as provisioning, deployment, lifecycle management, patching and updating, de-provisioning, maintenance, and monitoring.
This book is published as open-access, which means it is freely available to read, download, and share without restrictions.
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