Azure VM Start-Stop on Schedule using Terraform, Azure Automation, and PowerShell Runbooks

Automates Azure VM start/stop using Azure Automation and PowerShell runbooks. Deploys Windows/Linux VMs, an Automation Account, and a runbook to update PowerShell modules. Dynamically schedules updates (+0.5hr UTC+1) and VM start/stop tasks (+1hr UTC+1) based on VM tags to optimize costs.

Terraform Init

• Create and configure Azure Storage Account for Terraform state
• Create azure.sas.conf file with the following content:

  storage_account_name = "storage_account_name"
  container_name       = "container_name"
  key                  = "terraform.tfstate"
  sas_token            = "sas_token"

• terraform init -backend-config="azure.sas.conf" -reconfigure -upgrade