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• Archiving Azure Automation logs to Azure BLOB Storage

  For the past few months at work I’ve been diving headlong into a service on Microsoft Azure called Azure Automation which is, to all intents and purposes, a service for hosting and running Powershell scripts (properly termed “runbooks”). I’ve got a lot Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 25, 2014 11:09 PM by jamiet | 2 Comments Filed under: Azure, Azure Automation

• Passing credentials between Azure Automation runbooks

  Update: Turns out there's an even easier way of achieving this than the method I've described in this blog post. Joe Levy explains all in the comments below. I’ve been doing a lot of work lately using Azure Automation to run (what are essentially) Powershell Read More... Posted Thursday, October 16, 2014 3:09 PM by jamiet | 5 Comments Filed under: Azure, Azure Automation

• Azure Automation Pain Points

  In April of this year Microsoft announced a new offering on their Azure platform called Azure Automation (which I briefly talked about at Azure Automation – the beginning of cloud ETL on Azure? ). Azure Automation allows one to run Powershell scripts Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 23, 2014 9:19 AM by jamiet | 2 Comments Filed under: Azure, Azure Automation

• Azure Automation – the beginning of cloud ETL on Azure?

  I have maintained a watching brief on what I refer to as “cloud ETL”, that is the ability build ETL routines in a cloud environment and therefore leverage all the benefits that the cloud model brings*. Thus far my main opinion piece in this area is What Read More... Posted Thursday, April 24, 2014 1:42 PM by jamiet | 1 Comments Filed under: Azure, Azure Automation, cloud computing, ETL