Webhooks

Webhooks became famous after the advent of REST endpoints and JSON data payloads. Webhooks are an important concept and architectural decision in the extensibility of any application. Webhooks are placeholders that are left within special areas of an application so that the user of the application can fill those placeholders with endpoint URLs containing custom logic. The application will invoke the endpoint URL, automatically passing in the necessary parameters, and then execute the login available therein.

Azure Automation runbooks can be invoked manually from the Azure portal. They can also be invoked using PowerShell cmdlets and the Azure CLI. There are SDKs available in multiple languages that are capable of invoking runbooks.

Webhooks are one of the most powerful ways to invoke a runbook. It is important to note that runbooks containing the main logic should never be exposed directly as a webhook. They should be called using a parent runbook, and the parent runbook...