Azure Automation

azureWorkerazure-automation

Runbook execution service for scheduled and event-driven operational tasks.

Provider
azure
Kind
Worker
Category
Compute
Properties · 2 set by this component
propertytypevaluesrequiredkind defaultthis component
acceleratorenumnone | gpu | asicnononeinherited
concurrencyinteger—no—inherited
fanoutStrategy · advancedenumnone | push | pull | hybridnononeinherited
fanoutThreshold · advancedinteger—no—inherited
freeJobRunTimeMinutes · component propertyinteger—no500inherited
hybridRunbookWorker · component propertyboolean—nofalseinherited
idempotentboolean—nofalseinherited
instancesinteger—no—inherited
managedboolean—nofalse▸ true
rateControl · advancedenumnone | fixed | aimdnononeinherited
runbookType · component propertyenumpowershell | python | graphicalno—inherited
schedulestring—no—inherited
sku · component propertyenumfree | basicnobasicinherited
sourceControlIntegration · component propertyboolean—nofalseinherited
triggerenumqueue | stream | schedule | batch | manualyes—▸ schedule
Rules that apply · 3

Every rule whose selector covers this component's kind or its category. Whether a rule fires depends on the design: its properties, its edges and its groups.

push-fanout-without-celebrity-path

Pure push fan-out over a social graph is brutal at the tail: one post from an account with millions of followers becomes millions of cache writes. A follower threshold above which readers merge at read time bounds that write amplification.

  • — all of these hold:
  • — the node's `fanoutStrategy` is "push"
  • — the node's `fanoutThreshold` has no value
  • — the design contains a node of kind graph-database
shared-worker-pool-across-queues

One worker pool consuming several queues lets a slow or poisoned queue starve the others. That is precisely what the design's per-queue isolation requirement forbids.

  • — all of these hold:
  • — the node has more than 1 incoming edge from a queue
  • — the design requirement `isolation.perQueue` is true
stateful-node-without-zone-redundancy

A stateful compute node pinned to exactly one availability zone disappears with that zone, and its state goes with it. Nodes inside a cell are exempt, because there the cell is deliberately single-zone and redundancy comes from the other cells.

  • — all of these hold:
  • — the node's `stateless` is false
  • — the node sits inside exactly 1 availability-zone group
  • — this does not hold:
  • — the node sits inside at least one cell group
Use it in a design
nodes:
  - { id: "automation", component: "azure-automation" }
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Source
# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../schema/component.schema.json
# Azure Automation: runbook-based process automation, triggered by a schedule, webhook or alert.
# "Azure Automation overview": Automation accounts are created with a Basic SKU where the first 500
# job run time minutes are free per subscription, runbooks are graphical, PowerShell or Python, and
# Hybrid Runbook Workers and source control integration are opted into.
schemaVersion: "1"
type: "component"
id: "azure-automation"
kind: "worker"
provider: "azure"
docs: "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/automation/overview"
defaults:
  managed: true
  trigger: "schedule"
properties:
  sku:
    type: "enum"
    values: ["free", "basic"]
    default: "basic"
  freeJobRunTimeMinutes:
    type: "integer"
    default: 500
  runbookType:
    type: "enum"
    values: ["powershell", "python", "graphical"]
  hybridRunbookWorker:
    type: "boolean"
    default: false
  sourceControlIntegration:
    type: "boolean"
    default: false

The same page as markdown, for an agent: /catalogue/components/azure-automation.md