Category: Azure Automation Account

• Programmatically Provision an Azure Databricks Workspace and Cluster using Python Functions.

  Azure Databricks is a data analytics and machine learning platform based on Apache Spark. The first set of tasks to be performed before using Azure Databricks for any kind of Data exploration and machine learning execution is to create a Databricks workspace and Cluster. The following Python functions were developed to enable the automated provision…

  jbernec

  May 16, 2019

  Apache Spark, Azure Automation Account, Azure Databricks, Python

  ARM Templates, Automation, Azure Automation, Azure Databricks, Azure Databricks Cluster, Create Cluster API, Databricks REST API 2.0, Python3, yaml

• Automate the deployment and configuration of Azure Site Recovery for Hyper-V to Azure with PowerShell.

  Azure Site Recovery service enables businesses ensure business continuity by keeping their workloads and applications running on Virtual Machines and physical servers available if a site goes down. Site Recovery replicates these workloads running on VMs and physical servers so that they remain available in a secondary location if the primary site isn’t available. It…

  jbernec

  October 4, 2017

  Azure, Azure Automation Account, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Runbook, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Windows PowerShell

  Azure PowerShell, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Virtual Machines, BCDR, Hyper-V 2016, Nested Virtualization, Recovery Services Vault, Windows Server 2016

• Automate Azure VM Deployment and Disk Encryption using PowerShell and ARM Templates..

  PowerShell helps me better understand the internal workings of complex Cloud based operations that in many instances have a lot of moving parts. Better understanding helps determine ways to automate these operations that could otherwise take much time and repetition to accomplish.I developed the following Deploy-ManagedEncryptedLinuxVM PowerShell function to automate the provisioning, installation of LAMP…

  jbernec

  September 27, 2017

  Azure, Azure Active Directory, Azure AD Service Principal, Azure Automation Account, Azure Disk Encryption, Azure Key Vault, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Runbook, Azure Windows PowerShell

  Apache, ARM Templates, Azure Disk Encryption, Azure Key Vault, Azure PowerShell, Azure VM Extension, Bash Script, CentOS 7.3, CentOS Linux, LAMP, Managed Disk, MariaDB

• PowerShell Function Concurrently Starts up/Shuts down Multiple Azure Resource Manager VMs.

  One of the more relevant and cost saving tasks when working in Azure Cloud is fast and efficient shutdown and startup of virtual machines. Some of the options available could be to : a) Iterate through a csv list of VMs or Resource Group  of VMs and serially shutdown or startup the VMs. This can…

  jbernec

  August 15, 2017

  Azure, Azure AD Service Principal, Azure Automation Account, Azure Key Vault, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Runbook, Azure Windows PowerShell

  Azure Automation, Azure IaaS, Azure Infrastructure as a Service, Azure PowerShell, Azure VMs, Azure VMs Shutdown, Azure VMs Startup

• Implement the Azure Invoice API in Azure Automation Runbook.

  The new Azure Invoice API enables Azure Subscription users with the appropriate role assignments to download and view current and past Invoices programmatically. Till now, this was only possible via the Azure Management Portal. For Subscription users to be able to download these invoices, the account administrator needs to enable the “Access to Invoice” feature…

  jbernec

  July 14, 2017

  Azure, Azure AD Service Principal, Azure Automation Account, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Runbook, Azure Windows PowerShell

  Azure Automation, Azure Runbook, AzureRM Invoice API, AzureRM Key Vault, PowerShell Scripts

• Automate Azure Resource Group deployment with Azure PowerShell.

  

  I developed the following PowerShell function to automate the creation and removal of Azure Resource Groups based on Azure AD Group membership in a Demo Azure subscription. The script is deployed as a Runbook in an Azure Automation account and scheduled to run once a day. As new users are added to a designated Azure Active Directory security…

  jbernec

  June 10, 2017

  Azure, Azure Active Directory, Azure AD Service Principal, Azure Automation Account, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Runbook, Azure Windows PowerShell

  Automation Runbooks, Azure AD, Azure AD Service Principal, Azure PowerShell, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Resource Manager Portal