Managing Azure Subscriptions and Resource Groups

As an IT professional tasked with managing resources in Azure, it’s important to understand key administrative roles and permissions within a subscription and within a resource group. It’s also important to know how to leverage Role Based Access Control (RBAC) for managing such administrative roles and permissions.

In the first part of this lesson, you will learn about Azure subscriptions.  You will learn about key roles within a subscription, including contributor, owner, reader, and user access administrator. You’ll also learn how to manage these roles by using RBAC. We’ll also cover subscription policies and the role they play in the management of an Azure subscription.

In the second part of the lesson, we’ll talk about resource groups in Azure.  We’ll touch on what they do and how they are managed. You will learn how to secure resources within a resource group via resource policies and resource locks.  You’ll also learn about resource tagging and how it can be used to manage and group Azure resources.

Rounding out this lesson, we’ll cover the process of moving resources from one resource group to another, as well as the deletion of resource groups altogether.

Learning Objectives

Azure Subscriptions

• Understand the owner role
• Understand the subscription administrator Role
• How to manage roles and permissions with RBAC
• Understand subscription policies

Resource Groups

• Understanding the purpose of resource groups
• How to leverage resource group policies
• How to use resource locks to protect resources
• How to leverage resource tags  
• Moving resources between resource groups
• Removing resource groups

Intended Audience

• IT professionals interested in becoming Azure cloud architects
• IT professionals preparing for Microsoft’s Azure certification exams

Prerequisites

• General knowledge of IT infrastructure
• General knowledge of the Azure environment