Azure Automation

Azure Automation is Microsoft's platform for all automation implementation with regard to cloud, on-premises, 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 UIs to create runbooks
• Managing the full runbook life cycle, including building, testing, and publishing
• Scheduling runbooks
• The ability to run runbooks anywhere—on cloud or on-premises
• DSC as a configuration-management platform
• Managing and configuring environments—Windows and Linux, applications, and deployment
• The ability to extend Azure Automation by importing custom modules

Azure Automation provides a DSC pull server that helps to create a centralized configuration management...