Microsoft Azure Essentials Azure Automation

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Table of Contents
Introduction
Who should read this ebook
Assumptions
Organization of this ebook
Conventions and features in this ebook
Acknowledgments
Errata, updates, & support
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Chapter 1 Introduction to Azure Automation
Why automation?
Repeatable deployment
Consistent testing configurations
Why Azure Automation?
Windows PowerShell workflow
End-to-end automation service
Off-premises redundancy backed storage
Runbook authoring and importing
Scenarios
Azure Automation pricing
Enabling Azure Automation
Creating an Azure Automation account
Chapter 2 Runbook management
What is a runbook?
Runbooks support in the Azure Management Portal
Import a runbook
Import a runbook from the Script Center
Import or export a runbook via the Azure Management Portal
Create a runbook
Create a runbook using Quick Create
Create a runbook from the Gallery
Author a runbook
Runbook parameters
Runbook checkpoints
Resume or suspend a runbook
Chapter 3 Assets
Management certificates
Azure Active Directory and automation
Azure Automation assets
Asset scope
Variable assets
Using a variable asset
Integration module assets
Connection assets
Using the Connect-Azure runbook
Using Azure Active Directory without the Connect-Azure runbook
Schedule assets
Chapter 4 Runbook deployment
Publishing a runbook
Invoking a runbook
Invoke from code within another runbook
Invoke a runbook manually from the Azure Management Portal
Invoke a runbook using a schedule asset
Troubleshooting a runbook
Use the Dashboard
Enable logging
Backing up a runbook
Chapter 5 Azure Script Center, library, and community
Windows PowerShell workflows and runbooks
Azure workflow execution
Resources
Chapter 6 Best practices in using Azure Automation
Runbooks
Concurrent editing of runbooks
Azure Automation accounts
Checkpoints
Assets
Importing integration modules
Credentials and connections
Schedules
Authoring runbooks
Chapter 7 Scenarios
Scenario: Provisioning of IaaS resources
Provisioning resources
Authentication processing
Using the New-AzureEnvironmentResourcesFromGallery runbook
Creating assets for the runbook
Defining parameters and variables
Configuring authentication
Processing details
Scenario: Maintaining and updating Azure IaaS resources
Summary of upgrade process
Using the Update-AzureVM runbook
Supporting runbooks
Some final thoughts
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