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turbot/azure_thrifty

Pipeline: Detect & correct Compute virtual machine scale sets if unused

Detect & correct Virtual Machine Scale Sets if unused

Overview

Virtual Machine Scale Sets with no instances attached still cost money and should be deleted.

This pipeline detects unused Virtual Machine Scale Sets and then either sends a notification or attempts to perform a predefined corrective action.

Getting Started

This control will work out-of-the-box with some sensible defaults (configurable via variables).

You should be able to simply run the following command in your terminal:

flowpipe pipeline run detect_and_correct_virtual_machine_scale_sets_if_unused

By default, Flowpipe runs in wizard mode and prompts directly in the terminal for a decision on the action(s) to take for each detected resource.

However, you can run Flowpipe in server mode with external integrations, allowing it to prompt for input via http, slack, teams, etc.

Alternatively, you can choose to configure and run in other modes:

  • Notify: Provides detections without taking any corrective action.
  • Automatic: Performs corrective actions automatically without user intervention.

Run the pipeline

To run this pipeline from your terminal:

flowpipe pipeline run azure_thrifty.pipeline.detect_and_correct_virtual_machine_scale_sets_if_unused

Use this pipeline

To call this pipeline from your pipeline, use a step:

step "pipeline" "step_name" {
pipeline = azure_thrifty.pipeline.detect_and_correct_virtual_machine_scale_sets_if_unused
}

Params

NameTypeRequiredDescriptionDefault
database
connection.steampipe
YesDatabase connection string.connection.steampipe.default
notifier
notifier
YesThe name of the notifier to use for sending notification messages.notifier.default
notification_level
string
info, verbose, error
YesThe verbosity level of notification messages to send.info
approvers
list(notifier)
YesList of notifiers to be used for obtaining action/approval decisions.notifier.default
default_action
string
notify, skip, delete_virtual_machine_scale_set
YesThe default action to use for the detected item, used if no input is provided.notify
enabled_actions
list(string)
skip, delete_virtual_machine_scale_set
YesThe list of enabled actions to provide to approvers for selection.
[
"skip",
"delete_virtual_machine_scale_set"
]

Outputs

This pipeline has no outputs.

Tags

category = Cost
class = unused
plugin = azure
recommended = true
service = Azure/Compute