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Greg B
Greg B

Reputation: 14898

How do you turn an Azure Website on and off on a schedule?

I have a line of business app that I want to deploy to Windows Azure. The app is only needed during office ours so to save on costs I want to turn the Azure Website on and off outside of business hours.

How is this achievable?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 956

Answers (1)

Rick Rainey
Rick Rainey

Reputation: 11256

You can do this using Azure Automation (currently in preview). To do this,

Create a Runbook to Start the website. For example,

workflow StartContosoWebsite
{
    $cred = Get-AutomationPSCredential -Name "[email protected]"

    Add-AzureAccount -Credential $cred

    InlineScript {

        Select-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionName "MCT"

        Start-AzureWebsite -Name "contoso-web"  
    }
}

Create a Runbook to Stop the website. For example,

workflow StopContosoWebsite
{
    $cred = Get-AutomationPSCredential -Name "[email protected]"

    Add-AzureAccount -Credential $cred

    InlineScript {

        Select-AzureSubscription -SubscriptionName "MCT"

        Stop-AzureWebsite -Name "contoso-web"  
    }
}

Create an Asset in your automation account for the credentials you use in your runbooks to start and stop the web site. For example,

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Then, for each runbook, define the schedule you want it to run on. For your scenario, you would want to define a Daily schedule to run every 7 days. Using the example above, the StartContosoWebsite would run on Monday morning at some time you specify. The StopContosoWebsite would run on Friday eventing at some time you specify.

Upvotes: 3

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