[RESOLVED] Exported ARM Template - AutomationTask missing ManagedBy

Michael Ingraham 11 Reputation points
2022-06-28T01:10:41.27+00:00

I created several automation tasks to schedule starting & stopping a virtual machine on a scheduled basis (every weekday). I want to use these as the basis to automate a new deployment. I exported the automation tasks to a template. However, when I try to deploy it to a new resource group with a newly created VM, the deployment of any of the automation tasks fails. The error message is:

ManagedBy must be provided if resource kind is 'AutomationTask'.

I can surmise where the ManagedBy property needs to be specified in the template. But I don't know what the value needs to be. I was not able to find any information that pinned this down for me.

Any guidance is greatly appreciated.

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  1. Michael Ingraham 11 Reputation points
    2022-06-28T15:07:00.447+00:00

    Even though my development starting point was a template exported from the Azure Portal, the spec was not up to date. I used a newer API version for the workflow and did not specify a kind. The syntax validated and the deployment succeeded.

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