Azure Automation with PowerShell: Runbooks & Az Module

Set up Azure PowerShell by authenticating with Azure and ensuring a valid subscription, then choose your OS and install steps, with an optional Windows VM for practice.

Learn how to create a free Azure account with a 30-day trial and $200 credit, verify your identity with a card, and explore the Azure portal.

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Explore the Azure portal with a guided walkthrough, manage subscriptions and access control, compare pay-as-you-go and free options, handle resource groups and dashboards, and deploy resources with simple search.

Deploy a virtual machine in Azure by selecting subscription, resource group, region, and image, configure size and login, enable ports, then connect for testing.

Install Azure PowerShell by running PowerShell as administrator on a 64-bit Windows system, install the izzy module, verify with get-installed-modules, and connect to Azure to manage resources.

Connect your local PowerShell to Azure with the Azure PowerShell module, manage authentication options, and switch between subscriptions using the Azure Cloud Shell for pre-authenticated access.

Create a resource group in Azure using PowerShell, guided by naming conventions and Get-Help examples. Verify the creation in the Azure portal and prepare for deploying resources next.

Deploy a virtual machine in Azure using Azure PowerShell within a specific resource group and region, specifying VM name, login credentials, ports, and image.

Learn how to query data from Azure using PowerShell, listing resource groups, filtering by name, and formatting results for reports.

Learn to fetch Azure VM details with PowerShell by using Get-AzVM, piping to Get-Member, expanding properties, and selecting objects; filter by region and status with instance view and logical operators.

Learn to fetch Azure VM names and OS type with Azure PowerShell by expanding storage profile properties and using a calculated field for OS type.

Export Azure data fetched with PowerShell to csv, json, xml, or email-friendly formats, enabling sharing and archival for downstream use.

Automate Azure storage operations with PowerShell by authenticating, selecting a subscription, and setting context to create and manage storage accounts and containers.

Upload, list, filter, and download azure storage blobs with PowerShell by reusing a storage context, handling containers, and using for-each loops and force switches for automation.

Learn to automate repetitive Azure tasks with PowerShell in Azure Automation, including scheduling VM start/stop, autoscale based on CPU, and secure handling of secrets across cloud and on-premises environments.

Learn to use an Azure automation account to automate tasks with runbooks, including graphic and script-based options, publish from the gallery, and schedule updates with log analytics workspace insights.

Learn to create and edit an automation runbook, import required PowerShell modules, authenticate with a Run As connection, and test a script to list resource groups in Azure.

Learn to list resources in a resource group using an automation runbook, leverage variables for flexible resource group names, and safely stop virtual machines with automated PowerShell runbooks.

Learn how to publish and run an Azure Automation runbook using PowerShell, with shared resources and multiple triggers including schedule, ad hoc execution, alerts, and webhooks.

Explore arm templates, a json declarative language that defines resources to deploy to resource groups, with parameters, variables, and outputs, and deploy options via portal, cli, powershell, and bicep.

Learn to move from arm templates to bicep, set up vscode with bicep, translate and decompile templates, and deploy resources with az cli for automated infrastructure.

Explore a cloud bucket demo that creates containers, uploads and lists files, and downloads data from a storage account using a simple web app.

Set up the development environment for a browser-based azure sdk demo by configuring storage, enabling cors, generating a sas, installing node.js tools, and preparing to deploy the web app.

Write and deploy code for a Norges web app that interacts with blob storage, wiring UI actions to container creation using JavaScript and SDKs, then run and customize the UI.

Enhance the project’s user interface by styling, adding a download button and a links table, and updating JavaScript to populate and reveal the download links on demand.

Publish the web application by installing a tunneling package and running a command to expose the VM’s website to the internet.

Learn how PowerShell execution policies protect systems by evaluating script signatures from trusted providers, choosing policies like restricted, all signed, or bypass, and applying them via group policy.

Discover PowerShell basics by understanding objects as programmatic representations with properties and methods. Inspect object details with Get-Member, and leverage object outputs to control services and automate tasks.

Learn PowerShell basics for working with objects: selecting, filtering, grouping, and sorting, expanding properties, and using foreach-object, get-member, and what-if to manage files.

Explore how PowerShell pipelines pass objects between commands, how out-default renders output, and how views and get-member reveal and control properties.