Azure Automation Hybrid Worker with Azure Arc Enabled Server

Azure Automation is not just for Azure! We can extend it to an on-premises or multi-cloud environment with Hybrid Workers. This video starts with an introduction to Hybrid Workers and then moves on to installing an Azure Automation Hybrid Worker on Azure Arc enabled severs. We then test the implementation with a simple runbook.
00:00 - Start
04:11 - Add the Hybrid Worker Group
05:55 - Add the Azure Connected Machine Agent
10:27 - Add the Hybrid Runbook Worker Extension
11:22 - Test a Runbook on a Hybrid Worker Group
12:34 - Schedule a Hybrid Worker Job
13:12 - Run the Hybrid Worker Job Manually
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[@QuickHits]

The reason this works so well is that you explain what options there are and what they do - just another excellent video.

[@bgitsbigguyinthesky8754]

Thanks Travis!

[@487001609]

Yeah! Arc content! Love it Travis :)

[@Shravan_Reddy]

Thanks Travis. Could you run a real-time PowerShell based scenario on on-prem Arc enabled servers. This would help to visualize its real-time usage scenarios.

[@mosksky]

Ty again great content!!!
Azure arc + MMA would be greatly appreciated 👍

[@user-mv9nu5sf1n]

I do not recomend using MMA, it will be depricated this August on 21st

[@Knight-vw6gv]

Please share some more insights on Azure ARC. Will be highly appreciated!

[@user-mv9nu5sf1n]

what do you need specificly ?

[@ojaswatripathi6086]

Hi Travis,
Can we use this technology to copy data from on premise server and save in into SP Online?

[@ricardovazquez4333]

Would you still use this as many of features are now native through arc guest management?

[@mosksky]

Travis, in your example you had two servers added to the Hybrid workers, but output only one computer name.
I've added "New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path C:\temp\lenvolk2022" to the runbook and the directory was only created in one of the two server. Looks like hybrid worker group only has to have one server... Do you have any script examples to loop through all Arc VMs in the Hybrid Worker group?

[@Ciraltos]

That's a good point. The worker in the worker group that runs the code is random. In the case where you are working with local paths, you could limit it to one worker in the worker group, or run a test to verify the path exists and create it if it doesn't. That last example won't work well if the directory held data needed for the job. Another option is to store data on a central file share so there's no dependency on the specific worker.

[@mosksky]

@@Ciraltos ty for explaining!