Azure Update Manager series — Setup Azure Functions for Start and Stop Events

Gijs Reijn
8 min readMar 22, 2024

Welcome back to the series. The first part laid the foundation for deploying Azure Update Manager through Bicep. In this second part, we will create an Azure Function App.

Now, you might wonder, why you need an Azure Function App? Well, you are following those FinOps practices to shut down and start your Azure VMs during off hours, are ya?

Freepik

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Gijs Reijn

Azure DevOps | Azure | Automation | PowerShell Just doing my thing and writing about it