Configuration management in Azure

- We want to bring the power of desired state configuration, … or DSC, into Azure. … Let's look at the service we'll be adopting … to aide in our deployments. … Azure Automation is a service … that allows us to manage repeatable and prolonged tasks. … This could include tasks that would run via timer jobs, … based on scheduling or even event-driven ones, … which would be based on web hooks. … It can run against Azure and on-premise environments … and even on Linux. … Now it's a large service … and I encourage you to explore further. … I'm going to focus on some specific areas. … Two items I want to mention include process automation … and source control. … The process automation scripts can be written graphically, … through Python or PowerShell runbooks. … That should get your attention, … as DSC is based on PowerShell. … The last item I want to mention, … is that runbooks can be checked into source control. … Once in source control, … we can integrate it into our DevOps deployments. …