Azure Automation in Azure Government

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If you have been following closely, you would have realized Azure Automation is now available for Azure GOV. There are a couple of things you need to keep in mind when you are trying to run your first automation script with Azure GOV. I’m going to be outlining the steps below:

 

Step 1 -  Create a certificate with makecert (or you could use IIS too)

 

 

Step 2 – Install the certificate in the CurrentUser’s Personal Certificate Store

 

 

Step 3 – Upload this certificate in the management certificate section of the Azure Subscription (the .CER file )

 

 

Step 4 – Now export the certificate from the personal store using a password and save it to a .PFX file

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 5 – Now add the .PFX file as an asset onto Azure Automation

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 6 – Create variables for ‘SubscriptionName’ and ‘SubscriptionID’

Step 7 – Create a Runbook under Automation and enter the following to establish a connection and get started. The ones that we need to explicitly add for the Azure Government are highlighted below

 

workflow AnandTestRunbook

{

 

Add-AzureEnvironment -name “AzureGovernment” -serviceendpoint https://management.core.usgovcloudapi.net

 

$subscriptionID = Get-AutomationVariable -Name 'SubscriptionID'

 

$subscriptionname = Get-AutomationVariable -Name 'SubscriptionName'

 

$certificate = Get-AutomationCertificate -Name 'AnandAzureAutomationCertificate'

 

Set-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionName $subscriptionName -SubscriptionId $subscriptionID -Certificate $certificate -Environment "AzureGovernment" 

 

Select-AzureSubscription -name $subscriptionname

 

}

 

 

Step 8 – From here on you are good to go, you should be able to use it how you would normally use an Azure Automation script

 

Good luck and Happy Automating!!