Process automation that simplifies cloud management

Azure Automation allows you to automate the creation, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of resources in your Azure environment and across external systems. Azure Automation uses a highly scalable and reliable workflow execution engine to simplify cloud management. Use Automation to orchestrate time-consuming and frequently repeated tasks across Azure and third-party systems.

About this runbook

This runbook provides an example of how you can authenticate to Azure and use Azure cmdlets in a runbook. It uses an Azure AD organizational ID to connect to Azure. It then prints out the first 10 VMs in your account.

Dependencies

Azure Automation credential containing the Azure Active Directory organizational ID used to manage your Azure subscription. To learn more about getting set up to manage Azure, see get set up for Automation.