Azure: Creating Resource Group

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Azure resource group helps you organize and manage your Azure resources efficiently, improve security and access control, enforce governance and compliance standards, and manage your Azure billing and cost. In other words, you can have your entire network e.g., firewall VM, server VM, subnets, routing tables in one resource group. Then when it is time to remove these resources, you can simply delete that resource group to remove all these VMs, subnets and routing tables.

Prerequisite: You will need an Azure account and subscription first. For a 30-day $200 credit trail, see this post.

Here are the steps to create an Azure resource group:

1. Log in to your Azure portal at https://portal.azure.com/.
2. Click on "Resource groups" in the left-hand menu.
3. Click on the "+ Add" button to create a new resource group.
4. In the "Basics" tab, fill out the following information:
5. Subscription: Select the subscription you want to use.
6. Resource group: Enter a name for the new resource group.
7. Region: Select the region where you want to deploy the resources in the resource group. NOTE: This is very important, not all resources are available in all regions. This demo is using West US 2. However, it is highly recommended to "scope" what resources are available by region. You can do that by first going through the step of deploying your resource (e.g., VM) and see what the default region is.
8. In the "Tags" tab, you can add tags to your resource group if you want to categorize and manage your resources.
9. Review your settings and click on the "Review + create" button.
10. Review your settings and click on the "Create" button to create the new resource group.
11. Once the resource group is created, you can add resources to it by selecting the resource group from the "Resource groups" menu and clicking on the "+ Add" button. You can choose from a wide range of resources, including virtual machines, storage accounts, databases, and more.

That's it! You have successfully created an Azure resource group that you can use to organize and manage your Azure resources.