Question 39 - AZ-500 discussion

Step 1: Create an Azure Automation account

Runbooks live within the Azure Automation account and can execute PowerShell scripts.

Step 2: Import PowerShell modules to the Azure Automation account

Under ‘Assets’ from the Azure Automation account Resources section select ‘to add in Modules to the runbook. To execute key vault cmdlets in the runbook, we need to add AzureRM.profile and AzureRM.key vault.

Step 3: Create a connection resource in the Azure Automation account

You can use the sample code below, taken from the AzureAutomationTutorialScript example runbook, to authenticate using the Run As account to manage Resource Manager resources with your runbooks. The AzureRunAsConnection is a connection asset automatically created when we created ‘run as accounts’ above. This can be found under Assets -> Connections. After the authentication code, run the same code above to get all the keys from the vault.

$connectionName = "AzureRunAsConnection"

try

{

# Get the connection "AzureRunAsConnection "

$servicePrincipalConnection=Get-AutomationConnection -Name $connectionName

"Logging in to Azure..."

Add-AzureRmAccount `

-ServicePrincipal `

-TenantId $servicePrincipalConnection.TenantId `

-ApplicationId $servicePrincipalConnection.ApplicationId `

-CertificateThumbprint $servicePrincipalConnection.CertificateThumbprint

}

References:

https://www.rahulpnath.com/blog/accessing-azure-key-vault-from-azure-runbook/