Stop an Azure virtual machine

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

Stop a virtual machine

This action stops an Azure VM using the Azure Compute VM - Power Off 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 stop. For example, `"my-demo-vm"`.
skipShutdown	Optional	Boolean	Whether to skip the shutdown and power off the virtual machine immediately. Accepts `true` or `false`.
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 - Power Off - REST API.

name: azure-stop-vm
description: 'This stops a virtual machine'
steps:
  - name: azure_vm_stop_3
    type: action
    action: azure.vm.stop
    version: 1
    inputs:
      clientId: ${{ :secrets:azure-client-id }}
      clientSecret: ${{ :secrets:azure-client-secret }}
      tenantId: ${{ :secrets:azure-client-tenant }}
      subscriptionId: "12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789abc"
      resourceGroupName: "my-resource-group"
      virtualMachineName: ‘my-demo-vm'
    next: end

Stop an Azure virtual machine

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Stop a virtual machine