Runbooks

As described earlier, runbooks in Azure Automation are a set of related tasks that work together to perform an automated process. You can create Azure Automation runbooks through the browser-based user interface in the Azure portal, or you can import and modify runbooks from the Runbook Gallery to suit your purposes. At this time, there are five types of runbooks that you can create and use with Azure Automation:

  • PowerShell: These are runbooks that are based on Windows PowerShell. You can create and edit this using any standard text editor in Azure or elsewhere. PowerShell runbooks allow for complex logic and they nest other runbooks.
  • Python 2: Python runbooks compile under Python 2. This runbook type gives you access to the extensive ...

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