Azure Automation User Documentation

Learn how to use Automation to configure and automate operational tasks across a hybrid environment. Tutorials, API references, and other documentation show you how to automate processes, perform update management, deliver desired state configuration, track changes, and collect inventory.

5-Minute Quickstarts

Learn how to automate and configure your Azure and hybrid environment using Automation:

Create an Automation account
Create a runbook
Create a DSC configuration

Step-by-Step Tutorials

Learn how to integrate, deploy, and manage your Azure and hybrid environments.

  1. Configure watcher tasks
  2. Manage updates on your VM
  3. Onboard at scale
  4. Identify software installed on a VM
  5. Troubleshoot changes on a VM

Reference