Focus exclusively on the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) deployment model for Azure automation and gain in-depth knowledge of topics such as runbook authoring, different types of automation runbooks, and hybrid cloud automation. This book covers practical approaches to creating runbooks for multiple use cases, including operational tasks such as VM management and integration of Azure automation with infrastructure monitoring solutions, such as Operations Management Suite (OMS). Along the way you’ll see how to use PowerShell in Azure automation and cover essentials including Azure automation security, source control integration, and runbook output streams. Finally, you learn about integrating Azure automation with Desired State Configuration (DSC) to include various cloud, on-premise, and hybrid scenarios. What You Will Learn · Work with the building blocks of Azure automation · Create different types of runbook · Master hybrid cloud automation with ARM · Implement cloud automation use cases with practical examples Who This Book Is For Infrastructure and cloud architects, cloud support engineers, and system administrators.

Microsoft Azure cloud adoption is on the rise, and Azure Automation plays a key role in building a sustainable and repeatable framework for creating and managing resources in Azure. This book will provide you an in-depth understanding of the options available in Azure Automation via the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) portal.Microsoft recommends the ARM model as the way forward for all Azure deployments. This book focuses exclusively on the ARM deployment model for Azure Automation. This model has more robust options when compared to the classic deployment model.This book provides in-depth coverage of topics such as runbook authoring and types of Automation runbooks. It also covers advanced topics including hybrid cloud automation from the ARM-based Azure portal.Chapter 1, "Introduction to Azure Automation," introduces Azure Automation, providing an overview of features and guidelines on getting started with the service in the ARM portal.Chapter 2, "Azure Automation Assets," explores the basic building blocks of runbooks, called Automation assets. These assets include schedules, modules, certificates, connections, variables, and credentials.Chapter 3, "Azure Automation Runbook Types," covers the various runbook types in Azure Automation: PowerShell, PowerShell Workflow, Graphical and Graphical PowerShell Workflow. This chapter gives a walk-through of runbook creation, testing, and publishing.Chapter 4, "Azure Automation DSC," covers integration of Azure Automation with PowerShell Desired State Configuration(DSC), including various cloud, on-premises, and hybrid scenarios.Chapter 5, "Hybrid Cloud Automation," covers the Hybrid Runbook Worker in Azure Automation, which facilitates execution of runbooks in your on-premises datacenters or systems hosted in third-party cloud service providers.Chapter 6, "Sample Runbooks and Use Cases," provides a walk-through of some popular use cases and their implementations using Azure Automation.This book is written for infrastructure and cloud architects, cloud support engineers, system administrators, and IT strategists with a basic understanding of the Azure cloud platform and PowerShell scripting.

Design Engineering and Science teaches the theory and practice of axiomatic design (AD). It explains the basics of how to conceive and deliver solutions to a variety of design problems. The text shows how a logical framework and scientific basis for design can generate creative solutions in many fields, including engineering, materials, organizations, and a variety of large systems. Learning to apply the systematic methods advocated by AD, a student can construct designs that lead to better environmental sustainability and to increased quality of life for the end-user at the same time reducing the overall cost of the product development process. Examples of previous innovations that take advantage of AD methods include: • on-line electric vehicle design for electric buses with wireless power supply; • mobile harbors that allow unloading of large ships in shallow waters; • microcellular plastics with enhanced toughness and lower weight; and • organizational changes in companies and universities resulting in more efficient and competitive ways of working. The book is divided into two parts. Part I provides detailed and thorough instruction in the fundamentals of design, discussing why design is so important. It explains the relationship between and the selection of functional requirements, design parameters and process variables, and the representation of design outputs. Part II presents multiple applications of AD, including examples from manufacturing, healthcare, and materials processing. Following a course based on this text students learn to create new products and design bespoke manufacturing systems. They will gain insight into how to create imaginative design solutions that satisfy customer needs and learn to avoid introducing undue complexity into their designs. This informative text provides practical and academic insight for engineering design students and will help instructors teach the subject in a novel and more rigorous fashion. Their knowledge of AD will stand former students in good stead in the workplace as these methods are both taught and used in many leading industrial concerns.

"Microsoft Azure Essentials" from Microsoft Press is a series of free ebooks designed to help you advance your technical skills with Microsoft Azure. The second ebook in the series, "Microsoft Azure Essentials: Azure Automation," introduces a fairly new feature of Microsoft Azure called Azure Automation. Using a highly scalable workflow execution environment, Azure Automation allows you to orchestrate frequent deployment and life cycle management tasks using runbooks based on Windows PowerShell Workflow functionality. These runbooks are stored in and backed up by Azure. By automating runbooks, you can greatly minimize the occurrence of errors when carrying out repeated tasks and process automation. Watch Microsoft Press's blog and Twitter (@MicrosoftPress) to learn about other free ebooks in the "Microsoft Azure Essentials" series.

Develop faster with DevOps DevOps embraces a culture of unifying the creation and distribution of technology in a way that allows for faster release cycles and more resource-efficient product updating. DevOps For Dummies provides a guidebook for those on the development or operations side in need of a primer on this way of working. Inside, DevOps evangelist Emily Freeman provides a roadmap for adopting the management and technology tools, as well as the culture changes, needed to dive head-first into DevOps. Identify your organization’s needs Create a DevOps framework Change your organizational structure Manage projects in the DevOps world DevOps For Dummies is essential reading for developers and operations professionals in the early stages of DevOps adoption.

Learn how to leverage infrastructure as code with Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and the best practices to build, test, debug, and deploy your applications in Microsoft Azure using ARM templates and the new domain-specific language Bicep. As organizations consider moving partially or fully to the cloud, infrastructure as code (IaC) has become a key component to improving time to market for their applications. However, it is critical that enterprise infrastructure professionals use the right resources and strategies to build the infrastructure required to run applications in the cloud. Azure cloud-native components and capabilities automate the build and deployment process, offering a myriad of compelling reasons to leverage IaC to build your applications in Azure. Starting with the evolution of the software-defined approach and building on the basic concepts of infrastructure as code, this book provides you with comprehensive guidance to learn Azure Resource Manager from the ground up. You will learn the best practices for deploying and maintaining application infrastructure, such as template authoring tooling enhancements, Azure DevOps integrations, and updates to the deployment platform. After reading this book, you will understand the breadth and use cases of ARM capabilities and tooling within Microsoft Azure. You will be able to build, test, debug, and deploy your ARM templates and know how to use infrastructure as code to better manage the life cycle of your applications in Azure. What You Will Learn Introduces the concepts of infrastructure as code and how to leverage it using Azure Resource Manager Teaches how to enable and deploy Azure Resource Manager templates Covers the basic core elements of an ARM template to start authoring your templates and building your applications in the cloud Dives into core components such as parameters, variables, functions, dependencies, deployment modes, loops, conditions), enabling nested templates Reveals the built-in services and features in Azure, allowing the debugging process and validation process of the ARM templates Discusses "Bicep" the language for ARM templates and the DevOps integration to deploy ARM templates This book is for people who build, install, repair, or maintain the hardware and software associated with computer systems on-premises and who want to learn about the deployment and provisioning process of applications in the Microsoft Cloud using an infrastructure as code approach through Azure Resource Manager. Readers should have an Azure account and be familiar with the main Azure services (storage, compute, networking, management). Basic knowledge of PowerShell is also useful. David Rendon is an eight time awarded Microsoft MVP currently working as a Solutions Architect at Kemp Technologies. As an Azure expert and IT professional with more than 15 years of experience, most of his professional experience has been with Microsoft technologies. He conducts private training classes globally (India, South America, USA) that help companies migrate critical applications to the cloud and train their staff to be certified cloud architects. He is passionate about travel, action-packed tech days with peers, and getting down in the trenches of technology road maps. He regularly presents at public IT events such as Microsoft Ignite, Global Azure, local user group events across the US, Europe, and Latin America and is active on Twitter @DaveRndn.