Implementing Azure Automation for hybrid Windows servers

Process automation is the automation of frequent management tasks that can be error-prone, risk configuration drift, and consume an unequal amount of time to the value the task delivers. In this next section, we will introduce this topic.

Introduction

Automation can be provided through the Azure Automation service and is available to hybrid workloads.

To implement Azure Automation in this manner for non-Azure hybrid workloads, an Azure Automation account is required. Azure Automation is an Azure cloud service responsible for automating the configuration and management of Azure and non-Azure platforms.

The foundation of Azure Automation is runbooks, a set of tasks that execute on the target machine; these runbooks are executed as jobs. A process called a worker is responsible for running the jobs when the runbook is executed.

Azure Automation relies on a Hybrid Runbook Worker feature that allows runbooks to be executed...