Ability to create Azure automation account via Ansible

[ameya agashe]

Hi Guys,

Are we not able to create an Azure automation account with Ansible? Seems a simple request but I am not able to figure it out.

Would appreciate your guidance.

Thank you very much.

Kind regards

Ameya Agashe

P. S: Kindly ignore if this sounds too simple question, I am new to Ansible world.

[ameya agashe]

Apparently, there is no module for creation of azure automation account?

[ameya agashe]

Hi is this message gone in spam somewhere??

Ameya

[Brad Van Orden]

No, I have no idea what azure is.  So, can't offer any help.  You have not provided any details.  Possibly describe what the process is for creating an azure account without ansible and what problems you are having with using ansible.  Give us the steps you have attempted so far. 

[ameya agashe]

Hi Brad,

Appreciate your prompt response.Azure is a public cloud offering from Microsoft. WIthout Ansible, I would create the account with "Azure PowerShell" with the below command.:

New-AzureRmAutomationAccount `

-ResourceGroupName "${resource_grp_name_fred_nxt_old_prod}" `

-Name "${azure_automation_account_name}" `

-Location "${automation_account_location}"

What I have done so far is, I am being able to provision a base Windows 2016 Server in Azure, I want to now, automate the manual configuration task, first thing is to provision an automation account. The below snippet is of my yaml file which I run in Azure cloud shell and it provisions the environment.

- name: Create Azure VM

hosts: localhost

connection: local

tasks:

- name: Create resource group

azure_rm_resourcegroup:

name: myResourceGroup

location: eastus

- name: Create virtual network

azure_rm_virtualnetwork:

resource_group: myResourceGroup

name: myVnet

address_prefixes: "10.0.0.0/16"

- name: Add subnet

azure_rm_subnet:

resource_group: myResourceGroup

name: mySubnet

address_prefix: "10.0.1.0/24"

virtual_network: myVnet

- name: Create public IP address

azure_rm_publicipaddress:

resource_group: myResourceGroup

allocation_method: Static

name: myPublicIP

register: output_ip_address

- name: Dump public IP for VM which will be created

debug:

msg: "The public IP is {{ output_ip_address.state.ip_address }}."

- name: Create Network Security Group that allows RDP

azure_rm_securitygroup:

resource_group: myResourceGroup

name: myNetworkSecurityGroup

rules:

- name: RDP

protocol: Tcp

destination_port_range: 3389

access: Allow

priority: 1002

direction: Inbound

- name: Create virtual network inteface card

azure_rm_networkinterface:

resource_group: myResourceGroup

name: myNIC

virtual_network: myVnet

subnet: mySubnet

public_ip_name: myPublicIP

security_group: myNetworkSecurityGroup

- name: Create VM

azure_rm_virtualmachine:

resource_group: myResourceGroup

name: myVM

vm_size: Standard_DS1_v2

admin_username: svc_admin

admin_password: Hash#Dollar$135

os_type: Windows

network_interfaces: myNIC

image:

offer: WindowsServer

publisher: MicrosoftWindowsServer

sku: '2016-Datacenter'

version: latest

The main game, as I see is using Azure ansible modules, I couldn't locate the equivalent to create an automation account.

Kindly assist

Thanks

Ameya Agashe

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[Brad Van Orden]

OK.  Haven't touched Windows Server for a couple of years.  :)

I searched the azure modules in ansible and like you, did not see anything directly related.  My suggestion: since you already have a poweshell command to create the account, use the win_command module to run the powershell command where needed.  That will probably be your fastest method to get your task accomplished.