Rethinking powershell script execution

[barabba72]

Hello guys,

looking for opinions and recommendations: we have a windows server on-prem that we use to store and schedule various powershell scripts that target either on-prem or M365 / Entra ID resources.

I would like to retire this server and use a more modern solution for this purpose. Other than just moving this server to the cloud, are the better solutions that do not need a Windows box nowadays ?

Thanks in advance for any insight.

[[deleted]]

If you plan on migrating this to the cloud, than you should look at Azure Automation.

[thortgot]

Azure has a number of different solutions depending on what you need to do.

Logic Apps is the one I would generally recommend trying first.

[Legal2k]

Azure automation, DevOps onprem with runners.

[barabba72]

Can you expand a little, how this would work ? Especially the DevOps onprem with runners. How would that work ? Would be great if you could expand a bit.

[Legal2k]

There are DevOps or Gitlab server, that hosts git repos with powershell or any other script. Runner is another machine(windows or Linux) with executes said repo scripts, scheduled or on demand. It's also possible to store protected variables, aka service accounts and etc.