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Orchestrating IaaS management with Azure Automation Joe Levy Program Manager Enterprise Cloud Group

Session Objectives And Takeaways Understand the capabilities of Microsoft Azure Automation Discuss use cases for automating management of Azure virtual machines Discuss using PowerShell DSC for configuring VMs from Azure Automation Key Takeaways: Azure Automation allows integration between Azure services and external systems Azure Automation can be used to automate error-prone, frequently repeated tasks Easy to get started using Azure Automation to save time and $$$

Process automation that simplifies cloud management Optimize and extend existing investments Integration Integrate into existing systems with PowerShell integration modules Build additional PS modules to enable integrating into other systems Deliver flexible and reliable services Orchestration Accelerate time to value with flexible process workflows Improve service reliability across multiple tools, systems, and department silos Lower costs and improve predictability Automation Enable service owners to focus on work that adds business value Reduce error-prone manual activities while lowering costs

Azure Automation Capabilities Monitoring Systems Change Control Systems Anything  Runbook Authoring in Azure: Highly Available Engine: Integration into other systems: Create runbooks to automate all aspects of cloud management in cloud based Monaco editor. Support requirements for scale and H/A. Import existing or create new PS modules and runbooks for Azure services or to connect into 3rd party systems. Built on PowerShell Workflow. Isolation for runbook jobs. Automation Purge stale logs from SQL Staged deployment of a service Remediate alert on a service Patch Azure VMs without downtime

Demo Intro to Azure Automation

Microsoft Azure Automation 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 Microsoft Azure Automation Highly Available Historical Analysis

Demo Managing VMs using Azure Automation

PowerShell Desired State Configuration… Simplifies configuration Prevents configuration drift Flexible deployment options Enables continuous deployment Development Test Production

Configuration and Continuous Deployment Intent Environment Configuration (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 ….

PowerShell DSC and Azure Automation 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: Monitor source control for new commits to DSC repository for a service When new commit, push the DSC to the stage environment VMs Run test suite to confirm service in stage environment is functioning properly If tests fail, alert developers If tests pass, wait for maintenance window and then push DSC to production VMs, in a way that maintains service availabilty

Demo Azure Automation and PowerShell Desired State Configuration

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

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