Somebody on the dev team finally said it out loud in standup: “Can we stop killing my VM at ten o’clock? I’m still working.” Fair enough. The nightly auto-shutdown has been humming along at 10:00 PM Eastern for two years, saving a genuinely embarrassing amount of money, and now the…

Part 2 of a two-part series. Part 1 built this as an Azure Automation PowerShell runbook. In Part 1 we built a nightly VM shutdown with an Automation Account and about 120 lines of PowerShell. It works, it’s testable, and it lives in source control where it belongs. Now let’s…