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title: Automation Services
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description: Automation scenarios in Azure and related services
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services: automation
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ms.topic: overview
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ms.date: 1/17/2022
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# Automation Services Overview
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![Automation scenarios in Azure and related services](automation-services.png)
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## Infrastructure as code - ARM/BICEP
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### Capabilities
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- Simple declarative language to provision infrastructure on Azure.
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- Leverage ARM template knowledge and investments.
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- Use simple syntax without JSON.
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- Abstract common blocks of configuration into reusable elements.
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- Open Source: Transparency and community.
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- Integration with Policy as Code, Azure Blueprints.
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### Usage scenarios
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- Create, manage, and update infrastructure resources such as virtual machines, networks, storage account, containers etc., deploy apps, add tags, assign policies, assign role-based access control all declaratively as code integrated with your CI/CD tools.
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- Manage multiple environments like production, non-prod & disaster recovery.
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- Deploy resources consistently and reliably at scale.
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### Target audience
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An Application Developer/Infrastructure Admin/DevOps Engineer using Azure for the first time or using Azure as their primary cloud.
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## Azure Automation
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### Capabilities
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**Process Automation** - Orchestrate repetitive processes using graphical, PowerShell, and Python runbooks in the cloud or hybrid environment.
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### Usage scenarios
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**Scenario** | **Task**
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**Scheduled tasks** | For example: Stop dev/test VMs or services at night and turn on during the day.
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**Responding to alerts** | System alerts, service alerts, high CPU/memory alerts, create ServiceNow tickets, etc.
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**Hybrid Automation** | Managing/automating on-prem services and servers like SQL server, Active Directory, etc.
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**Azure resource lifecycle management & Governance** | Resource provisioning and deprovisioning, adding correct tags, locks, NSGs, etc.
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### Target audience
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- IT Admins/System Admin/IT Operations Admin skilled at using PowerShell or Python-based scripting.
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- Infrastructure Admins managing on-prem infrastructure using scripts or executing long running jobs like month-end operations on servers running on-prem.
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## Azure Automation based in-guest management
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### Capabilities
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- **Configuration Management**
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- Collect inventory & Track changes in your environment.
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- Configure desired state of your machines and discover/correct configuration drift.
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- **Update Management**
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- Assess compliance of servers.
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- Schedule update installation.
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### Usage scenarios
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- Detect and alert on software, services, file & registry changes to your machines and know what is installed in your servers.
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- **Patch management** - Assess and install updates on your servers.
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- Configure desired state of your servers and ensure they stay compliant.
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## Azure Policy based in-guest management
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### Capabilities
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- Next iteration of Azure Automation State Configuration.
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- Apply policies to audit settings inside servers - The Azure Policy can audit settings inside a machine, both for machines running in Azure and Arc Connected Machines for information such as:
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- What is installed, check for harmful apps, protocols
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- Certificates, admin privileges, health of agents
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- Customer-authored content
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### Usage scenarios
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- Get compliance data that may include:
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- The configuration of the operating system - files, registry, services, etc.
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- Application configuration or presence.
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- Check environment settings.
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- Set Windows server as per Group Policy baseline.
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### Target audience
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- Central IT/Infrastructure Admins/Auditors(Cloud custodian) looking for regulatory requirements at scale, and ensuring end state of servers looks as desired.
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- Application teams validating compliance before releasing change.
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## Azure Functions
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### Capabilities
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- **Deliver event-based automation** - "Compute on demand" to react to critical events.
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- Focus on the pieces of code that matter most to you and write functions in a language of your choice like C#, Java, JavaScript, PowerShell, or Python.
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- Durable Functions to orchestrate complex workflows.
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### Usage scenarios
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- Respond to events on resources such as adding tags to resource group basis cost centre when a VM is deleted.
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- **Scheduled tasks** - Patterns like stopping a VM at night and starting it in the morning, reading Blob Storage content at regular intervals, etc.
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- **Process Azure alerts** - Patterns like sending a team's event when the CPU activity spikes to 90%.
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- Orchestrate with external systems such as M365.
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### Target audience
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- Application Developers skilled in coding languages like C#, F#, PHP, Java, JavaScript, PowerShell, or Python.
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- Cloud Architects building serverless Microservices based applications.
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## Azure Logic Apps
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### Capabilities
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- Build "Smart" Integrations between 1st party and 3rd party apps, services, and systems running across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud native.
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- Use managed connectors from a 450+ and growing Azure connectors ecosystem to use in your workflows.
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- First-class support for enterprise integration and B2B scenarios.
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- Visually create and edit workflows - Low Code/no code approach.
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### Usage scenarios
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- Schedule and send email notifications using Office 365 when a specific event happens, for example, when a new file is uploaded.
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- Route and process customer orders across on-premises systems and cloud services.
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- Move uploaded files from an SFTP or FTP server to Azure Storage.
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- Monitor tweets, analyze the sentiment, and create alerts or tasks for items that need review.
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### Target audience
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- Pro integrators and developers, IT pros who would want to use low code/no code option for Advanced integration scenarios to external systems or APIs.
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## Azure Automanage
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### Capabilities
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- Azure Automanage replaces repetitive, day-to-day operational tasks with an exception-only management model, where a healthy, steady state of VM is equal to hands free management.
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- Linux and Windows supported
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- VM Best practices template for Dev/Test and Production workload.
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- Point-and-click onboarding portal experience
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### Usage scenarios
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- Automatically configures guest operating system according to Microsoft baseline configuration.
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- Automatically detect for drift and corrects for it across a VM's entire lifecycle.
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### Target audience
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- IT Admins/Infra Admins/IT Operations Admin responsible for managing server workload, day to day admin tasks like backup, disaster recovery, security updates, responding to security threats, etc. across Azure and on-prem.
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- Developers who do not want to manage servers or spend their time on menial tasks.
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