Lower costs and improve predictability Automation Enable service owners to focus on work that adds business value Reduce error-prone manual activities.

Joe LevyProgram ManagerEnterprise Cloud Group

Orchestrating IaaS management withAzure Automation

Session Objectives And TakeawaysSession Objectives:Understand the capabilities of Microsoft Azure AutomationDiscuss use cases for automating management of Azure virtual machinesDiscuss using PowerShell DSC for configuring VMs from Azure Automation

Key Takeaways:Azure Automation allows integration between Azure services and external systemsAzure Automation can be used to automate error-prone, frequently repeated tasksEasy to get started using Azure Automation to save time and $$$

Lower costs and improve predictability

Automation

Enable service owners to focus on work that adds business valueReduce error-prone manual activities while lowering costs

Optimize and extend existing investments

IntegrationIntegrate into existing systems with PowerShell integration modulesBuild additional PS modules to enable integrating into other systems

Deliver flexible and reliable services

OrchestrationAccelerate time to value with flexible process workflowsImprove service reliability across multiple tools, systems, and department silos

Process automation that simplifies cloud management

Azure Automation Capabilities

Azure

Monitoring Systems

Change Control Systems

Anything

Runbook Authoring in Azure:Create runbooks to automate all aspects of cloud management in cloud based Monaco editor.

Highly Available Engine:

Support requirements for scale and H/A.Built on PowerShell Workflow. Isolation for runbook jobs.

Integration into other systems:Import existing or create new PS modules

and runbooks for Azure services or to connect into 3rd party systems.

AutomationPurge

stale logs from SQL

Staged deployme

nt of a service

Remediate alert on a service

Patch Azure VMs

without downtime

Intro to Azure Automation

Demo

Built on PowerShell Workflow

PowerShell Workflow

•Use Windows PowerShell syntax•Parallel or serial execution across devices•Single task to manage complex, end-to-end processes

•Automated failure recovery with checkpoints •Connection and activity retries

Centralized store

•Credentials / certificates•Variables / connections•Checkpoints•Module management•Runbooks (draft / published versioning)•Integrated scheduling

As-a-service

•Azure-powered availability, scalability, reliability•Tenant-isolated, host-independent execution•Management through APIs, SDKs, cmdlets•Multi-region support•Backed by Azure SLA

Historical Analysis

•Historical view of runbook job execution•View output, errors, verbose, progress logs for jobs•View runbook version used for jobs

PowerShell Workflow

Centralized store

Highly Available

Historical Analysis

Microsoft Azure

Automation

Managing VMs usingAzure Automation

Demo

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Simplifies configuration

Prevents configuration drift Flexible deployment options Enables continuous deployment

PowerShell Desired State Configuration…

Development Test Production

Configuration and Continuous Deployment

Intent EnvironmentConfiguration(Dev -> Test -> Production)

$SystemDrive = "C:"$DemoFolder = "$SystemDrive\Demo"$global:WebServerCount = 3…

Structural Configuration

WindowsFeature IIS { Name = "Web-Server" Ensure = "Present"}…

Make It So Idempotent Automation

foreach -parallel ($featureName in $Name){ $feature = Get-WindowsFeature -Name $featureName if(($Ensure -eq "Present") -and (!$feature.Installed)) { Install-WindowsFeature -Name $featureName } ….}…

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Use PS DSC to automate VM configuration Use Azure Automation to automate processes Use PS DSC within Azure Automation runbooks to

configure VMs as part of processes Ex: The multi-step process of deploying new configurations to production VMs:

1. Monitor source control for new commits to DSC repository for a service

2. When new commit, push the DSC to the stage environment VMs

3. Run test suite to confirm service in stage environment is functioning properly

4. If tests fail, alert developers

5. If tests pass, wait for maintenance window and then push DSC to production VMs, in a way that maintains service availabilty

PowerShell DSC and Azure Automation

Azure Automation andPowerShell Desired State Configuration

Demo

If you think you will do a task twice – automate it!

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