How to call child runbooks from parent runbook without waiting for child runbook completion and move to next line

Ponkam, Sumanth (Cognizant) 50 Reputation points
2024-05-21T13:25:53.5333333+00:00

I have runbook A as parent and B, C are Child. I want to create a runbook A that should invoke B, C and continue executing the next line in the parent runbook. parent should not wait for child runbooks to be completed. can we have some sample code

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  1. AnuragSingh-MSFT 21,236 Reputation points
    2024-05-21T15:00:04.95+00:00

    @Ponkam, Sumanth (Cognizant), to ensure that you do not wait for the child runbook to complete before executing the next line, the Start-AzAutomationRunbook without -wait parameter.

    For details, see Start a child runbook by using a cmdlet.

    The sample runbook snippet is as below:

    # Ensure that the runbook does not inherit an AzContext 

Disable-AzContextAutosave -Scope Process  

# Connect to Azure with system-assigned managed identity 
$AzureContext = (Connect-AzAccount -Identity).context  

# set and store context 
$AzureContext = Set-AzContext -SubscriptionName $AzureContext.Subscription -DefaultProfile $AzureContext  

$params = @{"VMName"="MyVM";"RepeatCount"=2;"Restart"=$true}  

Start-AzAutomationRunbook -AutomationAccountName 'MyAutomationAccount' -Name 'Test-ChildRunbook' -ResourceGroupName 'LabRG' -DefaultProfile $AzureContext -Parameters $params

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    Hope this helps.

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