Session Description: Oil and gas refineries face intense workload surges during scheduled maintenance windows, especially when deploying custom-built turnaround applications in Azure. Static scaling strategies often fail to meet these demands, leading to latency, performance issue and rising operational costs.

In this session, we’ll explore a novel Ansible-based automation framework designed to dynamically scale Azure App Services in real time—tailored specifically for refinery turnaround workloads. You’ll learn how infrastructure-as-code and agentless automation can be combined with continuous monitoring to create adaptive, latency-aware scaling workflows. We’ll dive into the challenges of cold starts, frequent up/down scaling, and Ansible playbook execution delays—and how this framework overcomes them.Whether you're in industrial operations, cloud architecture, or DevOps, this session offers actionable techniques to optimize performance and cost-efficiency in complex environments.