The Simple way to keep your Azure Subscription "clean". This Azure Runbook will automatically delete all "expired" resources inside your Azure Subscription, and nothing else.
A Resource is "expired" when it has a tag expireOn older then the current date.
There is no automatic deployment yet. We start working on an ARM template but this part is not done. Feel free to contribute and send a pull request (PR).
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From the Azure Portal (azure.portal.com), click the "+" sign in the top left of the screen, and search for automation. Click Azure Automation to create a new one.
Make sure to select yes at the create an Azure Run account
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From the left panel click on Runbook, the type should be PowerShell.
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Copy-paste the content of the script SubCleaner.ps1
Remove the -WhatIf at line 29 and 38, to really delete the resources.
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Save and Publish
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From the left panel click on Modules. You will need to import those three module (the order is important because of dependency)
- Az.Accounts
- Az.ResourceGraph
- Az.Resources
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Create a schedules, to have the script executed every morning. Click on the Schedules from the left panel. Select the frequency you like, and save it.
To get a more detailed tutorial on how to create the Azure Automation you can refer to the blog post on Dev.to: Keep your Azure Subscription Clean Automatically
