Prerequisites

• Resource in Azure
• Azure Resource Group

Resource Manager

• Azure Resource Manager (ARM) is the deployment and management service for Azure (management service: access control, locks, tags etc)
• ARM provides a management layer that enables you to create, update, and delete resources in your Azure account
• See: Benefits of using ARM

Azure Portal

• https://portal.azure.com/
• Create resource group: https://portal.azure.com/#create/Microsoft.ResourceGroup

Azure CLI

• Install Azure CLI on Windows
• Open cmd and type az --version (should show Azure CLI version)
• Login to Azure from Azure CLI
  • az login
  • If the CLI can open your default browser, it will do so and load an Azure sign-in page
  • Otherwise, open a browser page at https://aka.ms/devicelogin and enter the authorization code displayed in your terminal.
  • Sign in with your account credentials in the browser
• Command exmaple (after login):
  • List of resource groups: az group list
  • List of resources in a resource group:
    • az resource list --resource-group TestResourceGroup
    • az resource list --resource-group TestResourceGroup --out table
    • az resource list --resource-group TestResourceGroup --out table --query "[].{Name:name, Type:type}"

Azure PowerShell

• Azure PowerShell is a set of cmdlets for managing Azure resources directly from the PowerShell command line
• Designed for managing and administering Azure resources from the command line
• Provides powerful features for automation
• Details: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/azure/
• Install Azure PowerShell
• Azure PowerShell commands

Azure Cloud Shell

Allows to execute Azure CLI commands and Azure PowerShell commands

Azure SDK

• Programmatically manage and interact with Azure services
• The Azure SDKs are collections of libraries built to make it easier to use Azure services from your language of choice
• Azure SDK delivers a platform for developers to leverage the wide variety of Azure services in their language of choice
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/
• Github repo: https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk

REST API

• RESTful API is exposed to manage resources via Azure Resource Manager
• See: https://github.com/uglide/azure-content/blob/master/articles/resource-manager-rest-api.md
• Microsoft doc: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/resources/

Azure Resource Manager Template

• Written in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
• Defines infrastructure and configuration for Azure resources
• Declarative syntax
• Deployment
  • Using Azure Pipelines (CI/CD)
  • From GitHub
  • Using PowerShell and the Azure CLI
  • Resource Manager REST API
  • Using the Azure Portal
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/azure-resource-manager/templates/template-syntax
• https://github.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates

To see ARM template

• Go to: https://portal.azure.com/#home
• Resource groups > Select a single Resource Group (or select multiple)
• Search “Export” > Export template

Saved templates

• Go to: https://portal.azure.com/#allservices
• Search “template”

Service Health

• Go to: https://portal.azure.com/#allservices
• Search “health” > Service Health