Hello Everyone, Welcome to the Automation in Azure, As you have seen many ways we can perform
automation, one of the ways is through an automation account in Azure.
Here, In this blog, we are going to show how we can create an automation account in Azure and perform
automation through scripts which can be written in various languages like Python or even
in PowerShell scripts.
Steps to Create an Automation Account
- Let’s start by creating the Automation account in the Azure portal, Click on the Create button
to create a new automation account so that we can run our scripts in the automation account
- First, In the basic step, we need to provide the details related to the resource group, account name,
subscription and region as shown below in the picture :
- In the Advanced section, we have two options System assigned is for the system-based configuration
which can be accessed easily by logging into the account Azure but for the user assigned we can
provide the new user to access this automation account by choosing the option and filling in
the subscription name and resource group.
- In the Networking section, we also have two options where we can create either public access or private access, if we select private then we need to provide the private endpoints to access the automation account for now we have used public access :
- We also have the option to give the tag in the Azure Automation Account :
- In the Final step, we just need to review the steps and click on create, just one click away from creation :
- After creating the automation Account, we need to create a runbook where we can add the script to run :
- We are creating a run book for which we need to fill in the details to set up the runbook in the automation account :
- After filling in all the details we are ready to start our automation, just to write some scripts in it and we can just one click away to perform automation.
Conclusion
After going through this blog, I hope you have got an overview of how you can create an automation account and start performing automation. For more blogs please follow us by clicking here.
