AutomateMicrosoft AzureRoss SponholtzMark Ghazai

Options for Automation

• PowerShell• Azure Automation• Rest API and .Net (Web services)• System Center Orchestrator•Windows Azure Pack SMA

Getting Started with PowerShell• http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/

How to install and configure Azure PowerShellhttp://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/powershell-install-configure

Installation Process

Connecting to your Account/Subscription

• If you want to enter your subscription when the script runs:• Add-AzureAccount

• If you want to use stored credentials

• Get-AzurePublishSettingsFile -Environment AzureGovernmentCloud

• Import-AzurePublishSettingsFile ".\ross.publishsettings"• Select-AzureSubscription "slgazurefairfax_Non-Billable_Production"

Connecting to Azure-Government• Add-AzureEnvironment -Name "AzureGovernmentCloud" -PublishSettingsFileUrl "https://manage.windowsazure.us/publishsettings/index" -ServiceEndpoint "https://management.core.usgovcloudapi.net/" -ManagementPortalUrl "https://manage.windowsazure.us/" -ActiveDirectoryEndpoint "https://login.windows.net/" -ActiveDirectoryServiceEndpointResourceId "https://management.core.usgovcloudapi.net/" –StorageEndpoint "core.usgovcloudapi.net"

• Set-AzureEnvironment "AzureGovernmentCloud“

• See here for more examples: • https://github.com/AzureFederal/azure-government-powershell

PowerShell

Demo

Visual Studio

Demo

Azure Automation

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

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 Availab

le

Historical

Analysis

Microsoft Azure

Automation

Typical Azure Automation Scenarios

Patch Azure IaaS VMs without downtime, leveraging Traffic manager.

Enable regeneration of storage account keys while avoiding downtime in the application.

SQL Backup on a schedule.

Backup and restore IaaS VMs.

Deploy a VM on an Azure / On-Premise cloud and enable monitoring for the VM.

Deploy a new service to Azure and configure the end points for CPU and Memory alerts.

Deploy application from Git, run validation tests, and swap to production if tests pass.

Monitor SharePoint online for an approval to update a service and update the service once approved.

Alert on a VM then turn on tracing, collect logs, upload to Azure Storage and make available in Visual Studio for troubleshooting.

Monitor for when a new service gets created, and configure it for the right tracing / backup policy.

Notify users of a subscription who have underutilized VMs and perform remediation.

Patch / Update / Backup

Orchestration

Change Control & Provisioning

Monitoring & Remediation

Managing VMs usingAzure Automation

Demo

On-Prem Solutions

• System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator• Windows Azure Pack SMA (Service Management Automation)

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

Resources• How to install and configure Azure PowerShell http

://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/powershell-install-configure

•  Windows PowerShell Survival Guide http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/183.windows-powershell-survival-guide.aspx

• Hybrid Cloud Automation Toolkit - Windows Azure and PowerShell http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Hybrid-Cloud-Automation-02f061a4

• Automating the Cloud with Azure Automation http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Automating-the-Cloud-with-Azure-Automation

• How to connect Orchestrator to Windows Azure http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/25006.how-to-connect-orchestrator-to-windows-azure.aspx

•  TechNet Gallery Azure https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/site/search?f%5B0%5D.Type=RootCategory&f%5B0%5D.Value=WindowsAzure

•  GitHub Azure PowerShell https://github.com/Azure/azure-powershell

•   Monitor Azure Websites using Azure Automation https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Monitor-Azure-Websites-25cf58a6

•  Sending email from Azure Automation using Office 365 (Secure SMTP) https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Sending-email-from-Azure-24ee27cd

•  TechNet Virtual Labs https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/virtuallabs/bb467605.aspx

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