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Managing Azure Cloud Services (classic) using Azure Automation

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Important

Cloud Services (classic) is now deprecated for new customers and will be retired on August 31st, 2024 for all customers. New deployments should use the new Azure Resource Manager based deployment model Azure Cloud Services (extended support).

This guide introduces you to the Azure Automation service, and how it can be used to simplify management of your Azure cloud services.

What is Azure Automation?

Azure Automation is an Azure service for simplifying cloud management through process automation. Using Azure Automation, long-running, manual, error-prone, and frequently repeated tasks can be automated to increase reliability, efficiency, and time to value for your organization.

Azure Automation provides a highly reliable and highly available workflow execution engine that scales to meet your needs as your organization grows. In Azure Automation, processes can be kicked off manually, by third-party systems, or at scheduled intervals so that tasks happen exactly when needed.

Lower operational overhead and free up IT / DevOps staff to focus on work that adds business value by moving your cloud management tasks to be run automatically by Azure Automation.

How can Azure Automation help manage Azure cloud services?

Azure cloud services can be managed in Azure Automation by using the PowerShell cmdlets that are available in the Azure PowerShell tools. Azure Automation has these cloud service PowerShell cmdlets available out of the box, so that you can perform all of your cloud service management tasks within the service. You can also pair these cmdlets in Azure Automation with the cmdlets for other Azure services, to automate complex tasks across Azure services and third party systems.

Next Steps

Now that you've learned the basics of Azure Automation and how it can be used to manage Azure cloud services, follow these links to learn more about Azure Automation.