Azure Automation Accounts

Patching and automation operations on Azure with Automation Accounts.

ℹ️ New patching should be done with Update Manager

Set the .auto.tfvars file:

cp config/template.tfvars .auto.tfvars

Create the infrastructure:

terraform init
terraform apply -auto-approve

After this, enable the update for the VMs from the automation account.

👉 Since Automation does not support Ubuntu 22, I'm running this with 20.04.

Once configured and executed, patching should be fixed on all machines:

Inventory and change tracking are also enabled via Terraform:

Runbook

A PowerShell 7.2 runbook is created to rotate Storage Account keys.