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Azure Automation and Update Management
The document provides an overview of Azure Automation and Update Management, covering various topics such as automation features, authentication, PowerShell workflows, and update management. It includes practical insights on creating self-signed certificates, desired state configuration, and integrating source control with Azure services. Additionally, it discusses the use of PowerShell DSC for configuration management and details on managing virtual machines through the Windows Admin Center.
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- 1. Azure Automation andUpdate Management Udaiappa Ramachandran ( Udai ) https://udai.io
- 2. About me • UdaiappaRamachandran ( Udai ) • CTO-Akumina, Inc. • Cloud Expert • Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google • New Hampshire Cloud User Group (http://www.meetup.com/nashuaug ) • https://udai.io
- 3. Agenda • Automation • Authentication •Certificate Creation • PowerShell Workflow • PowerShell DSC • Update Management • Source control integration • Windows Admin Center • Demo…Demo…Demo…
- 4. Introduction • What isAzure Automation? • Automation Features • Process automation • Configuration management • Change Tracking and Inventory • Azure Automation State Configuration • Update management • Shared capabilities • Shared resources • Role-based access control • Source control integration • Heterogeneous features. • Windows and Linux • Azure and Non-Azure
- 5. Common Scenarios • Scheduletasks • Write runbooks • Build and deploy resources • Configure VMs • Share knowledge • Retrieve inventory • Find changes • Periodic maintenance • Respond to alerts • Hybrid automation • Azure resource lifecycle management • Dev/test automation scenarios • Governance related automation • Azure Site Recovery • Windows Virtual Desktop
- 6. Authentication • Run Asaccount • Classic Run As account • Service principal for Run As account • System assigned managed identity • User assigned managed identity
- 7. PowerShell - Self-SignedCerts cd $PSScriptRoot $subject= read-host "Please enter the certificate subject" $pwd= read-host "Please enter the password" $todaydt = Get-Date $enddt = $todaydt.AddYears(10) $cert=New-SelfSignedCertificate -Subject $subject -KeyAlgorithm RSA -KeyLength 2048 -CertStoreLocation "Cert:CurrentUserMy" -notafter $enddt $certPassword = ConvertTo-SecureString -String $pwd -Force -AsPlainText $pfxFilePath="akumina_v5.pfx" $certFilePath="akumina_v5.cer" Export-PfxCertificate -Cert $cert -FilePath $pfxFilePath -Password $certPassword Export-Certificate -Cert $cert -FilePath $certFilePath
- 8. OpenSSL - Self-SignedCerts #Set the OPENSSL_CONF file set OPENSSL_CONF=C:Program FilesGitusrsslopenssl.cnf #Create RSA Key Pair openssl genrsa -out rsakeypair.pem 2048 #Create CSR openssl req -new -sha256 -key rsakeypair.pem -out yourapp.csr #Create CRT openssl x509 -req -sha256 -days 365 -in yourapp.csr -signkey rsakeypair.pem -out yourapp.crt #Create pfx file for IIS import of certificate openssl pkcs12 -export -out yourapp.pfx -inkey rsakeypair.pem -in yourapp.crt
- 9. Desired State Configuration •Configuration Management service • Create and manage PowerShell scripts for state configuration • Allows configuration management of workloads in Azure or Non-Azure • Management of DSC Artifacts • PowerShell DSC pull/reporting service hosted in the cloud • PowerShell DSC is declarative and not imperative • Authoring PowerShell DSC • Create DSC File • Compile the DSC file into Microsoft Object Format (MOF) file • Stage the DSC file for the target nodes • WMI providers implement the desired configuration as per DSC
- 10. UpdateManagement • Updates receivedthru Log Analytics workspace • Schedule updates for Windows/Linux VMs
- 11. Windows Admin Center •Manage Virtual machines from Azure Portal
- 12. Source control integration •Single direction synchronization from your repository to cloud • Easy to promote development environment to production automation account • Integration enabled through Managed Identity (System or User) and RunAs account • User Managed Identity using Automation Variable (AUTOMATION_SC_USER_ASSIGNED_IDENTITY_ID =<CLIENTID>) • RunAs Account using Automation variable (AUTOMATION_SC_USE_RUNAS =true) • Enable Source control integration using Azure Portal or PowerShell
- 13. Demo… • Azure AutomationCreation and Overview • Authentication Types • Running Runbooks • Scheduling • Running PowerShell DSC • Inventory and Change Tracking • Update Management • Version Control
- 14. Reference • Azure Automation:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/automation/ • Azure Update Management: https://docs.microsoft.com/en- us/azure/automation/update-management/overview • WSUS: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/example- scenario/wsus/ • WSUS Package Publisher: https://github.com/DCourtel/Wsus_Package_Publisher • Preview: Patch Management: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual- machines/automatic-vm-guest-patching
Editor's Notes
- #5 What is Azure Automation? Azure automation delivers a cloud-based automation and configuration service that provides consistent management across your Azure and non-Azure environments Common Scenarios Process Automation – Orchestrate processes using graphical, powershell and Python runbooks Configuration Management – Collect inventory, Track changes, Configure desired state Update Management-Assess compliance, Schedule update installation Shared Capabilities- Role based access control, Secure, global store for variables, credentials, certificates, connections, flexible scheduling, shared modules, source control support , auditing, tags
- #6 Schedule tasks - stop VMs or services at night and turn on during the day, weekly or monthly recurring maintenance workflows. Write runbooks - Author PowerShell, PowerShell Workflow, graphical, Python 2 and 3, and DSC runbooks in common languages. Build and deploy resources - Deploy virtual machines across a hybrid environment using runbooks and Azure Resource Manager templates. Integrate into development tools, such as Jenkins and Azure DevOps. Configure VMs - Assess and configure Windows and Linux machines with configurations for the infrastructure and application. Share knowledge - Transfer knowledge into the system on how your organization delivers and maintains workloads. Retrieve inventory - Get a complete inventory of deployed resources for targeting, reporting, and compliance. Find changes - Identify and isolate machine changes that can cause misconfiguration and improve operational compliance. Remediate or escalate them to management systems. Periodic maintenance - to execute tasks that need to be performed at set timed intervals like purging stale or old data, or reindex a SQL database. Respond to alerts - Orchestrate a response when cost-based, system-based, service-based, and/or resource utilization alerts are generated. Hybrid automation - Manage or automate on-premises servers and services like SQL Server, Active Directory, SharePoint Server, etc. Azure resource lifecycle management - for IaaS and PaaS services. Dev/test automation scenarios - Start and start resources, scale resources, etc. Governance related automation - Automatically apply or update tags, locks, etc. Azure Site Recovery - orchestrate pre/post scripts defined in a Site Recovery DR workflow. Windows Virtual Desktop - orchestrate scaling of VMs or start/stop VMs based on utilization.
- #8 #TO READ CONTENT OF PFX FILE $outFile="akumina_v5.txt" $clearBytes = get-content $pfxFilePath -Encoding Byte [System.Convert]::ToBase64String($clearBytes)| Out-File $outFile http://kaushikghosh12.blogspot.com/2016/08/self-signed-certificates-with-microsoft.html
- #9 RSA=Rivest-Shamir-Adleman CSR=Certificate Signing Request file PEM=Privacy-Enhanced Mail (de facto file format for storing and sending ryptographic keys, certificates and other data) PFX=Personal Information Exchange http://kaushikghosh12.blogspot.com/2016/08/self-signed-certificates-with-microsoft.html Difference between makecert and openssl is that makecert does not create CSP of 24 (The value remains 1) where as openssl does when used pvk2pfx with switch –sy 24
- #10 Can be used as a report-only endpoint WMI=Windows Management Instrumentation Push Mode=Configurations are applied via the Start-DSCConfiguration PowerShell command PullMode=Configurations are stored centrally, and the nodes are configured to pole and pull the configurations from the central location
- #15 WSUS-Windows Server Update Service