Pro PowerShell for Microsoft Azure

CHAPTER 8

Azure Automation

Since the beginning of the book, we have talked about using PowerShell to automate different Azure services, such as virtual machines, virtual networks, SQL databases, and so many others. The focus, so far, has been mainly on learning how to perform certain tasks in PowerShell so that you can use it for automation purposes. For instance, how to provision a virtual machine via PowerShell so that you can later put this code inside a loop to provision a hundred virtual machines at a time. The same concept applies to other services, like creating Azure web sites, Azure AD users, uploading files to Azure storage, and so on. ...