Azure automation is Microsoft's platform for all automation implementation with regard to cloud, on-premise and hybrid deployments. Azure automation is a mature automation platform that provides rich capabilities in terms of the following:
- Defining assets, such as variables, connections, credentials, certificates, and modules
- Implementing runbooks using Python, PowerShell scripts, and PowerShell workflows
- Providing user interfaces to create runbooks
- Managing the full runbook life cycle including build, test, and publish
- Scheduling of runbooks
- Ability to run runbooks anywhere--on cloud or on-premise
- DSC as a configuration management platform
- Manage and configure environments, machines--Windows and Linux, applications, and deployment
- Ability to extend Azure automation by import custom modules
Azure automation provides a DSC pull server that helps in creating...
