Microsoft might be dipping its toes into dangerous waters with an upcoming change to its Azure icon. While innocuous announcements like "A fluent new look for the Azure icon" wouldn't normally warrant ...

Azure Automation also provides tools for working with Azure platform services, using the same Azure CLI APIs to configure services and make the resulting resources available to your code.

However, Microsoft Azure Automation is specifically designed for "cloud-based app/workload management," and it's designed to become "a unified Cloud OS platform," according to Anderson's post.

First, you’ll need a Microsoft Azure subscription, of course, and a Windows PC with PowerShell v4 or later, as we’ll be building PowerShell scripts to kick off some Azure automation techniques.

Chef and Microsoft team up to enhance Azure’s automation. by Blair Hanley Frank on February 23, 2015 at 6:02 am February 23, 2015 at 6:03 am. Share Tweet Share Reddit Email.

"By Azure Automation's general availability, we expect to have around 40 cmdlets to allow complete control of Azure Automation via PowerShell," Microsoft explained, in a Wednesday blog post.

CHICAGO — ANSIBLEFEST--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the availability of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on Azure at ...

To create your first runbook, log into the Azure Portal and navigate to your Automation account, then click on Runbooks. You'll see a lot of prebuilt runbooks available. [Click on image for larger ...