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leslieonline1
leslieonline1

Reputation: 41

Azure ARM template - derive Automation Account registration Url and Key at runtime

I'm trying to derive the Registration Key and Url of my Azure Automation DSC account inside the ARM template at runtime. I've tried using the same syntax as you would for a storage account, ie. 

listKeys(resourceId('Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts', 'StorageAccountName'), '2015-05-01-preview').key1)

by doing this:

listKeys(resourceId('Microsoft.Automation/automationAccounts', 'AutomationAccountName'), '2015-05-01-preview').key1)

but no luck (it appears the function simply returns null). This would naturally make provisioning an automation account and and a VM and wiring up the VM to the automation account in the same template easy as pie. Has anyone successfully got something similar to work?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1004

Answers (2)

Erlend Graff
Erlend Graff

Reputation: 1528

With version 2015-10-31 of the Azure Automation API, the following seems to work.

Getting the registration URL:

reference(resourceId('Microsoft.Automation/automationAccounts/', 'AutomationAccountName'), '2015-10-31').RegistrationUrl

Getting the Primary key:

listKeys(resourceId('Microsoft.Automation/automationAccounts/', 'AutomationAccountName'), '2015-10-31').keys[0].value

Getting the Secondary key:

listKeys(resourceId('Microsoft.Automation/automationAccounts/', 'AutomationAccountName'), '2015-10-31').keys[1].value

For reference, the object returned from the listKeys() template function for an Automation account resource looks like this (can easily be found by adding an output value using listKeys() to the outputs section of an ARM template):

{
  "keys": [
    {
      "KeyName": "Primary",
      "Permissions": "Full",
      "Value": "VALUE OF PRIMARY KEY"
    },
    {
      "KeyName": "Secondary",
      "Permissions": "Full",
      "Value": "VALUE OF SECONDARY KEY"
    }
  ]
}

Upvotes: 1

flyboarder
flyboarder

Reputation: 596

As per this GitHub Ticket, this is still under development.

https://github.com/azureautomation/automation-packs/issues/7

Upvotes: 1

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