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

3. 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 $$$

4. 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

5. 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

6. Demo
Intro to Azure Automation

7. 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

8. Demo
Managing VMs using
Azure Automation

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

10. 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 ….

11. 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

12. Demo
Azure Automation and
PowerShell Desired State Configuration

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

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