Manage Resources on Azure

Question 1

Azure PowerShell

Answer 1

Command line shell

Built on top of .Net which accepts and returns .Net objects

Question 2

Visual Studio Code

Answer 2

Free source code editor (can run in the cloud)

Not same as “Visual Studio” which is an IDE

Question 3

Azure Cloud Shell

Answer 3

Interactive, authenticated browser accessible shell for managing Azure resources.

Can choose either Bash or Powershell

Asked to create storage device when launched

Az account list will show you all accounts

Times out after 20 minutes.

Windows specific functionality not available (runs on Linux container)

Question 4

Azure CLI

Answer 4

Command line interface

Processes commands to a computer program in lines of text.

Installed on Windows, Mac and Linux.

Azure commands start with “az” followed by other stuff to create, update, delete resources

Question 5

Resource Groups + 4 benefits

Answer 5

Containers for resources. Benefits include:

Organisation
Enforce policies and standards
Avoid accidental deletion
Security - use RBAC to control access

Organize by type (VM’s, DB’s), function (finance) or phase (dev/prod)

Question 6

Tagging

Answer 6

Name/value pairs of text data you apply to resources and RG’s (Name = Department, Value = Finance, for example)

Can use policy to force use of tags

Tags not inherited, and a resource can have 50 tags