Azure Resource Management with the Azure Portal and PowerShell

Azure Resource Management is a crucial aspect of Azure resource management. Azure provides a user-friendly interface, the Azure Portal, to manage resources and scale up or down as needed.

The Azure Portal allows you to create, edit, and delete resources, such as virtual machines, storage accounts, and networks. You can also monitor resource usage and performance in real-time.

PowerShell is another powerful tool for Azure Resource Management. It enables you to automate tasks and manage resources programmatically, making it ideal for large-scale deployments or repetitive tasks.

Azure Resource Management is a straightforward process that allows you to create and manage resource groups in the new Azure portal. This portal provides a high-level view of available resource groups in a specific Azure subscription, and you can select what columns to see based on your role and interests.

You can manage resources by viewing them in the portal, where you'll see options for managing that particular resource. For example, you can start, restart, or stop a virtual machine from this view.

To see all resource providers and their registration status for your subscription, follow these steps: sign in to the Azure portal, search for Subscriptions, select it, select the subscription you want to view, and then find the Resource providers under Settings. From there, you can register or re-register resource providers as needed.

The Azure portal is your gateway to managing Azure resources. It's where you'll spend most of your time, and it's essential to understand how to navigate it effectively.

To access the Azure portal, simply sign in to the Azure portal, and you'll be taken to the main dashboard. From there, you can access various features, including resource groups, subscriptions, and resource providers.

The new Azure portal provides a flexible and customizable view of available resource groups in a specific Azure subscription. You can select what columns to see in this view based on your role and interests and use filters to zoom in on resource groups specific to a subscription or a location.

To see all resource providers, and the registration status for your subscription, follow these steps: sign in to the Azure portal, select the subscription you want to view, and then select Resource providers. From there, you can find the resource provider you want to register and select Register.

Azure resources are organized by Azure services and by resource groups. To open a resource by service, sign in to the Azure portal, select the Azure service, and then select the resource you want to open.

To open a resource by resource group, sign in to the Azure portal, select Resource groups to list the resource within the group, and then select the resource you want to open.

The Resource Explorer is a powerful tool that allows you to view information for a particular resource provider. To access it, sign in to the Azure portal, select All services, enter "resource explorer" in the search box, and select Resource Explorer. From there, you can expand providers and resource types to view detailed information.

Here's a quick reference guide to help you navigate the Azure portal:

By understanding these features and how to navigate the Azure portal, you'll be well on your way to managing your Azure resources with ease.

Azure PowerShell is a powerful tool for managing resources in Azure. You can use it to see all resource providers in Azure and their registration status for your subscription.

To maintain least privileges, only register resource providers you're ready to use. This is a best practice to avoid unnecessary permissions.

To register a resource provider, use the registration command. Don't block the creation of resources for a provider in the registering state, as this can slow down your application.

Reregister a resource provider to use new locations that have been added since the previous registration. Simply run the registration command again to do this.

To get information about a particular resource provider, use the Get-AzResourceProvider cmdlet. This will give you the registration status and other details.

You can also use PowerShell to get the resource types for a resource provider. This is useful for planning and deploying resources.

The API version corresponds to a version of the resource provider's REST API operations. As a resource provider enables new features, it releases a new version of the REST API.

To get the available API versions for a resource type, use the Get-AzApiVersion cmdlet. This will give you the list of available versions.

Resource Manager is supported in all regions, but the resources you deploy might not be supported in all regions. Be sure to check the supported locations for a resource type before deploying.

Managing Azure resources is a breeze with the right tools and knowledge. You can manage resource groups in the new Azure portal, which provides a straightforward way to create and manage resource groups.

The RG management blade offers a high-level view of available resource groups in a specific Azure subscription, allowing you to select what columns to see based on your role and interests.

With Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC), you can manage access to resources in Azure. This means you can assign roles to users and groups to control what they can do with your resources.

Understanding the scope of management is crucial in Azure. There are four levels of management scope: management groups, subscriptions, resource groups, and resources. You can apply management settings at any of these levels, and lower levels inherit settings from higher levels.

Azure Resource Manager (ARM) provides a new way to manage resources in Azure. With ARM, you can group related resources together under a resource group and manage them as a single unit.

To manage resources, you can view and manage options such as starting, restarting, and stopping a virtual machine. You can also perform operations like deleting resources, which requires typing the name of the resource to confirm deletion.

Here's a quick rundown of the steps to open resources:

Alternatively, you can open resources by resource group:

Locking resources is a crucial aspect of Azure Resource Management. It prevents other users in your organization from accidentally deleting or modifying critical resources.

To lock a resource, you need to open it in the portal and select Locks. This will give you the management options for the resource.

You can specify the lock properties by selecting Add. This will help you prevent accidental modifications or deletions.

Locking resources ensures that your critical resources, such as Azure subscription, resource group, or resource, remain safe from unintended changes.

For example, if you lock a storage account, other users will not be able to delete or modify it without your permission.

Here's a quick rundown of the steps to lock a resource:

By locking your resources, you can ensure that your updates are deterministic and reliable, and you can avoid any inconsistency or data loss.

Tagging is a powerful way to organize your Azure resources. By assigning relevant tags, you can logically group and categorize your resources, making it easier to manage and find them later.

To tag a resource, you first need to open it in the portal. You can do this by following the steps outlined in the "Open resources" section. Once you've opened the resource, select the "Tags" option.

Specify the tag properties, and then select "Save" to apply the tags. This will help you organize your resource group and resources in a way that makes sense for your needs.

Monitoring your Azure resources is a crucial part of resource management. You can view default graphs and tables for monitoring specific resource types directly in the portal.

Opening a resource reveals a dashboard with graphs and tables that provide a quick overview of its performance. The graphs are particularly useful for visualizing trends and patterns.

You can pin these graphs to the dashboard for easy access by clicking the pin icon in the upper right corner.

To manage your Azure resources effectively, you need to understand how to work with resource groups. Resource groups are a container for all resources that share a common life cycle.

You can create a resource group and specify a region for it to be stored in, but the resources in that group can span multiple regions. This is because the region is only required for storing deployment metadata, not for the resources themselves.

The new Azure portal provides a straightforward way to create and manage resource groups, with a flexible and customizable view of available resource groups in a specific subscription. You can select what columns to see and use filters to zoom in on specific resource groups.

You need to provide a location for your resource group when you create it.

This location determines where the metadata about your resources is stored, which is important for compliance reasons to ensure your data is stored in a particular region.

Select a location close to where your control operations originate to ensure state consistency for the resource group.

This routing requirement only applies to control plane operations for the resource group, not to requests sent to your applications.

If a resource group's region is temporarily unavailable, you may not be able to update resources in the resource group because the metadata is unavailable.

Resources in other regions still function as expected, but you may not be able to update them.

Locating resources in the same region as the resource group can reduce the impact of regional outages.

By colocating your resource and resource group region, you reduce the risk of region unavailability because your resources and metadata exist in one region instead of multiple regions.

Managing a resource group in Azure is a straightforward process. You can create and manage resource groups using the new Azure portal, which became generally available last year.

The Azure portal provides a flexible and customizable view of available resource groups in a specific Azure subscription. You can select what columns to see in this view based on your role and interests.

Resource groups can be managed using scripting tools like PowerShell or the Azure CLI 2.0, but the new portal offers a more user-friendly experience. The portal displays blades to the user as additional resources are created, allowing for a step-by-step wizard-like approach to building and managing resources.

A resource group is a container for all resources that share a common life cycle. This means that a resource should always exist in a resource group and can exist only in one group.

You can manage access to resources within a resource group using Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC). This is an important aspect of group management, as it allows you to control who has access to specific resources and what actions they can perform.