palleagermark: Use Microsoft Flow to start up your Azure VMs

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Источник: http://www.agermark.com/2017/04/use-...t-up-your.html
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Having Azure VM's running when no one uses them is the cloud equivalent of setting your money on fire.


With the ARM deployments we can do for D365fO now, we can pretty easy make the machines shut down automatically based on a schedule:

But how about startup? If you start a machine manually it takes a while before you can connect to it and use it. So it is preferred to start machines before the workday starts.


If you control startup with scheduled RunBook scripts you risk starting machines that will not be used during the day. Developers might be on other projects, being sick or being on vacation.


So I have been looking into using Microsoft Flow to start machines. The idea is that a developer opens his/her Flow app before leaving their home in the morning to start the machines they want to work on that day. Here is how that could look in the Flow app:

To get there, first step is to create an Azure Automation account and create the RunBook for starting a VM. You can find the RunBook as a template in the Azure Portal. The process is very well described in this article on the Axology blog: https://axology.wordpress.com/2016/1...-of-azure-vms/


The Flow app is very simple to setup. Here are the steps for creating the app button (sorry, some of this is in danish).


First add the manual trigger:

Then add the action, which in this case is an "Azure Automation - Create job" action:

Finally I get a notification when the job is done. Not when the machine actually runs, but when the job kicking off the startup is done:

That is it for a really simple flow. You can probably think of a lot of bells and whistles to add.


I would like to try it out with one of the physical buttons that works with Flow, like Flic, as the trigger:

A button is ordered...


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