Azure Automation Tasks

Azure Automation Tasks are pre-defined workflows that can be configured on a per-resource basis in the Microsoft Azure Cloud, built on top of Azure Logic Apps.
Join me as we take a look at some of the early preview capabilities of this new feature.
Microsoft Docs: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azur...
0:00 Introduction
2:13 Virtual Machine Automation Task Demo
5:24 Edit Automation Task in Logic Apps
7:03 View Task Run History
8:10 Storage Account Automation Task
9:52 Microsoft Docs Article
10:25 Summary

[@pjtgrizzly]

how do you configure this so that it's just a ONE time start up? Like in your example you want the VM to spin up at 9:42am on that specific date and THAT'S IT? like zero recurrance

[@MattAllford]

Hi pjtgrizzly. Sorry that I missed this comment. I’m not sure it’s doable to set up a one off start up using this process, you might need to consider using another tool like a script or a logic app.

[@santoshgoswami5054]

Hi Matt, thanks for the tutorial, can you suggest instead of using owner's account can we use any other way to authentication.

[@MattAllford]

Hey Santosh, no worries at all. Can you expand a bit on what you mean by using the owners' account?

[@santoshgoswami5054]

@@MattAllford as I can see in your video I see you are using your id Matt Allford with the main owner of you Azure account try to create a new user and provide a contributor access and then try to configure this VM automation task, as I tried but not able to success.

[@MattAllford]

Hi Santosh. I must apologise, I didn’t get notified on a few comments and this was one of them. Did you end up getting this sorted out?

[@santoshgoswami5054]

@@MattAllford, It's ok and Yes, I was able to get it to work using Service Principle instead of Managed Identity.

[@Fedoteh1991]

Hi Matt! Is this still the valid way? Or now we have to use the Managed Identities?

[@MattAllford]

Hey!
Not sure I follow sorry, can you expand on what you mean by using managed identities? I haven't used them a lot, but I believe the tasks shown in this video are still valid (albiet still in preview). But there certainly are other options where you could run tasks with scripts or functions in services like logic apps, azure automation, and logic apps, in which case those services would need a managed identity enabled, with access to the target resources.
Does that help?
Cheers, Matt.