Restart an Azure virtual machine

The Azure Virtual Machine (VM) actions let you manage the lifecycle of your Azure VM directly from your workflows.

Restart a virtual machine

This action restarts an Azure VM using the Azure Compute VM - Restart REST API.

Input field	Optionality	Type	Description
clientId	Required	String	An Azure Service Principal `clientID`. Must be passed as a secret. See how to register an Azure app.
clientSecret	Required	String	An Azure Service Principal `clientSecret`. Must be passed as a secret. See how to register an Azure app.
tenantId	Required	String	The Azure tenant identifier. Can be passed as a secret.
subscriptionId	Required	String	The Azure subscription identifier. For example, `"12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789abc"`.
resourceGroupName	Required	String	The name of the resource group that contains the virtual machine. For example, `"my-demo-rg"`.
vmName	Required	String	The name of the virtual machine to restart. For example, `"my-demo-vm"`.
selectors	Optional	List	A list of selectors used to extract specific values from the response. For example, `[{"name": "statusCode", "expression": ".response.status_code"}]`.

Output field	Type	Description
success	Boolean	`success: true \| false`
errorMessage	String	Failure reason as message.
response	Object	`<azure api body response>`. For more information, see the Azure Compute VM - Restart - REST API.

name: azure-restart-vm

steps:
  - name: azure_vm_restart_1
    type: action
    action: azure.vm.restart
    version: 1
    inputs:
      clientId: ${{ :secrets:my-client-id }}
      clientSecret: ${{ :secrets:my-client-secret }}
      tenantId: ${{ :secrets:my-tenant-id }}
      subscriptionId: "12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789abc"
      resourceGroupName: "my-demo-rg"
      vmName: "my-demo-vm"
      selectors:
        - name: statusCode
          expression: ".response.status_code"

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Restart a virtual machine