Automation account

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Azure Automation DSC is an Azure service that allows you to write, manage, and compile PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) configurations, import DSC Resources, and assign configurations to target nodes, all in the cloud.

Template Locations

Automation account ARM Template on GIT

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WAF-compliance

The WAF-compliance advisor validates templates based on the Well Architected Framework practices. Every day a GitHub Action updates the templates compliance data and lists the recomendations.

Total Recommendation's: 4

Your are almost there, just fix remaining issues.

Sustainbility Advisor

The sustainability advisor is based on the Sogeti Cloud Reference Architecture with sustainble practices. These sustainble practices cover application code, cloud infrastructures and data. The global Sogeti community is continously evolving the sustainble practices and every day new and tuned are added. For cloud infrastructures the sustainble practices are automatically validated and reported below.

note: when 100% it can be that there is no sustainble practices yet for this Cloud infrastructure.

Total Recommendation's: 0

Your template is in good shape, we dont have any sustainable recommendations at present

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Template reference
Service description

Resource	Description	Automation
Automation account module	Azure Automation DSC is an Azure service that allows you to write, manage, and compile PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) configurations, import DSC Resources, and assign configurations to target nodes, all in the cloud.	ARM
Operational Insights	Operational Insights	ARM

Requirements

Resource group must been created with a valid name and location.

Input values

tagBillingIdentifier: Cost Center.
automationAccountSku : Free, Basic or OMS.”

Output values

AutomationName: Name

Compliance Advisor details

Resource Health Result

Message	ResourceType	Severity
Your current API Version i.e.2021-04-01 for the resource Microsoft.Automation/automationAccounts is outdatedconsider updating to new recent version available i.e. 2022-08-08 or 2022-02-22	Microsoft.Automation/automationAccounts	2
To help other contributors understand the purpose of the resource, specify comments for each resource in the template	Microsoft.Automation/automationAccounts	1
Don't use variables for the API version, i.e.[variables('automationAccountApiVersion')]	Microsoft.Automation/automationAccounts	1

TemplateParameterHealthResult

Message	Severity
Define default values for parameters that aren't sensitive. By specifying a default value, it's easier to deploy the template, and users of your template see an example of an appropriate value i.e. automationCustomNameRead More	1