The aim of this blog is to demonstrate how to automate the scheduled deletion of resource groups across your sandbox / development subscriptions as part of your FinOps practice, in an effort to manage your cloud sprawl as well as manage your security vulnerabilities. Deployment Plan In the blog we will be deploying; One Azure… Continue reading Azure Automation – delete selected resource groups in a subscription
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How to start/stop a virtual machine scale set instance
There are so many auto shutdown scripts available to manage single instance Azure virtual machines, but how do we manage the snoozing / user defined scheduling of instances in virtual machine scale sets in non-production environments as part of FinOps. Stand-alone virtual machines can be snoozed via the auto-shutdown feature or via the automation tasks.… Continue reading How to start/stop a virtual machine scale set instance
Using Azure Automation to Schedule PowerShell Scripts
Azure Automation is an excellent platform if you’re looking to schedule your recurring PowerShell tasks. Scheduling a PowerShell script to run in Azure allows you to automate your repetitive tasks in your Azure environment. You are able to schedule your PowerShell scripts to run at specific times or intervals, making it easy to automate a… Continue reading Using Azure Automation to Schedule PowerShell Scripts