Can a resource in one resource group access a resource in another resource group?
In this article, I want to look at what is azure resource group. Firstly, understanding meaning of resource and resource group is important. Show
Resource is a manageable item that is available through cloud computing. For example, virtual machine, storage account, database, web app… etc. are some of common resources. Resource
Group A resource only belongs in one resource group and a resource group can include resources where reside in different regions. Also you can add or remove a resource to a resource group at any time. A resource group can be
used to scope access control for administrative actions. You can migrate a resource between resource groups. Resources can interact between each other in different resource groups. This interaction is common when the two resources are related but do not share the same lifecycle. For example, web apps connecting to a database. Before you create storage accounts, networks or VMs etc. , You should create the resource groups first. If you don’t create resource
group, It will created automatically by Azure. When it created resource group, the name will assign randomly and that are very hard to understand what are they. So this is an unadvisable option because of complication. You should use meaningful name to easy management. When you place your resources in a same resource group, they will start to share a common lifecyle. That is to say, they will be created together, they will run together using some kind of common function
and they will be deleted together. You should be carefull when you selected a resource group. Because your every action will affect all resources such as deleting in related resource group. You can plan out your resource groups as a heterogeneous or homogenous. If you have several different type of resource as a virtual networks, virtual machine, web apps etc. , you called it “heterogenous resource group”. For having homogenous, you should have your all virtual network in
one, all virtual machine in one etc. One of features is RBAC in resource group. RBAC ( Role-Based Access Control ) is a system that provides fine-grained access management of resources in Azure. You can manage users on resources groups what users need to perform their jobs. Instead of giving all users limitless permissions in your Azure subscription or resources, you can permit only particular actions at a specify scope. How to Create A
Resource Group You can follow steps below to create a resource group. Firstly, select the “Resource Group” left side on Azure Portal. After that, click “Add” like below. Write
your meaningful name for Resource Group. If you have more subscription, you should choose a subscription where you want to placed your resource group. The resource group has to reside in a region. So, choose your region and create it. You have to provide a location for resource group when deploy a resource group. Because, you indicate a location for the resource group accutually you stored metadata there. So you should make sure that your data is stored in a
specific region. You can see detail of Monitoring and Billing. Firstly, You should click “Resource Group” left side In Azure Portal. After that, choose your related resource group in resource groups. You will see options to choose left side again. Select “Resource Cost” under settings and you will reach your resources cost like
below. The infrastructure for your application is typically made up of many components – maybe a virtual machine, storage account, and virtual network, or a web app, database, database server, and 3rd party services. You do not see these components as separate entities, instead you see them as related and interdependent parts of a single entity. You want to deploy,
manage, and monitor them as a group. Azure Resource Manager enables you to work with the resources in your solution as a group. You can deploy, update or delete all of the resources for your solution in a single, coordinated operation. You use a template for deployment and that template can work for different environments such as testing, staging and production. Resource Manager provides security, auditing, and tagging features to help you manage your resources after deployment. If you are new to Azure Resource Manager, there are some terms you might not be familiar with. Resource Manager provides several benefits: Resource Manager provides a new way to deploy and manage your solutions. If you used the earlier deployment model and want to learn about the changes, see
Understanding Resource Manager deployment and classic deployment. The following suggestions will help you take full advantage of Resource Manager when working with your solutions. For more recommendations, see
Best practices for creating Azure Resource Manager templates. There are some important factors to consider when defining your resource group: Each resource provider offers a set of resources
and operations for working with technical area. For example, if you want to store keys and secrets, you will work with the Microsoft.KeyVault resource provider. This resource provider offers a resource type called vaults for creating the key vault, and a resource type called vaults/secrets for creating a secret in the key vault. It also provides operations through Key Vault REST API operations. You can call the REST API directly or you can use Key Vault PowerShell cmdlets and Key Vault Azure CLI to manage the key vault. You can also use a number of programming languages to work with most resources. For more
information, see SDKs and samples. To deploy and manage your infrastructure, you will need to know details about the resource providers; such as, what resource types it offers, the version numbers of the REST API operations, the operations it supports, and the schema to use when setting the values of the resource type to create. To learn about the supported resource providers, see
Resource Manager providers, regions, API versions and schemas. With Resource Manager, you can create a simple template (in JSON format) that defines deployment and configuration of your application. By using a template, you can repeatedly deploy your application throughout the app lifecycle and have confidence
your resources are deployed in a consistent state. Azure Resource Manager analyzes dependencies to ensure resources are created in the correct order. For more information, see Defining dependencies in Azure Resource Manager templates. When you create a solution from the portal, the solution automatically includes a deployment template. You do not have to create your template from scratch because you can start with the template for your solution and customize it to meet your specific needs. You can retrieve a template for an existing resource group by either exporting the current state of the resource group to a template, or viewing the template that was used for a particular deployment. Viewing the exported template is a helpful way to learn about the template syntax. To learn more about working with exported templates, see Export an Azure Resource Manager template from existing resources. You do not have to define your entire infrastructure in a single template. Often, it makes sense to divide your deployment requirements into a set of targeted, purpose-specific templates. You can easily re-use these templates for different solutions. To deploy a particular solution, you create a master template that links all of the required templates. For more information, see Using linked templates with Azure Resource Manager. You can also use the template for updates to the infrastructure. For example, you can add a new resource to your app and add configuration rules for the resources that are already deployed. If the template specifies creating a new resource but that resource already exists, Azure Resource Manager performs an update instead of creating a new asset. Azure Resource Manager updates the existing asset to the same state as it would be as new. Or, you can specify that Resource Manager delete any resources that are not specified in the template. To understand the differences options when deploying, see Deploy an application with Azure Resource Manager template. You can specify parameters in your template to allow for customization and flexibility in deployment. For example, you can pass parameter values that tailor deployment for your test environment. By specifying the parameters, you can use the same template for deployment to all of your app’s environments. Resource Manager provides extensions for scenarios when you need additional operations such as installing particular software that is not included in the setup. If you are already using a configuration management service, like DSC, Chef or Puppet, you can continue working with that service by using extensions. Finally, the template becomes part of the source code for your app. You can check it in to your source code repository and update it as your app evolves. You can edit the template through Visual Studio. For more information about defining the template, see Authoring Azure Resource Manager Templates. For step-by-step instructions on creating a template, see Resource Manager Template Walkthrough. For guidance on deploying your solution to different environments, see Development and test environments in Microsoft Azure. TagsResource Manager provides a tagging feature that enables you to categorize resources according to your requirements for managing or billing. You might want to use tags when you have a complex collection of resource groups and resources, and need to visualize those assets in the way that makes the most sense to you. For example, you could tag resources that serve a similar role in your organization or belong to the same department. Without tags, users in your organization can create multiple resources that may be very difficult to later identify and manage. For example, you may wish to delete all of the resources for a particular project, but if those resources were not tagged for the project, you will have to manually find them. Tagging can be an important way for you to reduce unnecessary costs in your subscription. Resources do not need to reside in the same resource group to share a tag. You can create your own tag taxonomy to ensure that all users in your organization use common tags rather than users inadvertently applying slightly different tags (such as "dept" instead of "department"). For more information about tags, see Using tags to organize your Azure resources. You can create a customized policy that requires adding tags to resources during deployment. Access controlResource Manager enables you to control who has access to specific actions for your organization. It natively integrates OAuth and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) into the management platform and applies that access control to all services in your resource group. You can add users to pre-defined platform and resource-specific roles and apply those roles to a subscription, resource group or resource to limit access. For example, you can take advantage of the pre-defined role called SQL DB Contributor that permits users to manage databases, but not database servers or security policies. You add users in your organization that need this type of access to the SQL DB Contributor role and apply the role to the subscription, resource group or resource. Resource Manager automatically logs user actions for auditing. For information about working with the audit logs, see Audit operations with Resource Manager. For more information about role-based access control, see Azure Role-based Access Control. The RBAC: Built in Roles topic contains a list of the built-in roles and the permitted actions. The built-in roles include general roles such as Owner, Reader, and Contributor; as well as, service-specific roles such as Virtual Machine Contributor, Virtual Network Contributor, and SQL Security Manager (to name just a few of the available roles). You can also explicitly lock critical resources to prevent users from deleting or modifying them. For more information, see Lock resources with Azure Resource Manager. For best practices, see Security considerations for Azure Resource Manager Manage resources with customized policiesResource Manager enables you to create customized policies for managing your resources. The types of policies you create can include scenarios as diverse as enforcing a naming convention on resources, limiting which types and instances of resources can be deployed, limiting which regions can host a type of resource, or requiring a tag value on resources to organize billing by departments. You create policies to help reduce costs and maintain consistency in your subscription. For more information, see Use Policy to manage resources and control access. Consistent management layerResource Manager provides completely compatible operations through Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI for Mac, Linux, and Windows, the Azure portal, or REST API. You can use the interface that works best for you, and move quickly between the interfaces without confusion. The portal even displays notification for actions taken outside of the portal. For information about PowerShell, see Using Azure PowerShell with Resource Manager and Azure Resource Manager Cmdlets. For information about Azure CLI, see Using the Azure CLI for Mac, Linux, and Windows with Azure Resource Management. For information about the REST API, see Azure Resource Manager REST API Reference. To view REST operations for your deployed resources, see Use Azure Resource Explorer to view and modify resources. For information about using the portal, see Deploy resources with Resource Manager templates and Azure portal. Azure Resource Manager supports cross-origin resource sharing (CORS). With CORS, you can call the Resource Manager REST API or an Azure service REST API from a web application that resides in a different domain. Without CORS support, the web browser would prevent an app in one domain from accessing resources in another domain. Resource Manager enables CORS for all requests with valid authentication credentials. SDKs and samplesAzure SDKs are available for multiple languages and platforms. Each of these language implementations is available through its ecosystem package manager and GitHub. The code in each of these SDKs is generated from Azure RESTful API specifications. These specifications are open source and based on the Swagger 2.0 specification. The SDK code is generated via an open-source project called AutoRest. AutoRest transforms these RESTful API specifications into client libraries in multiple languages. If you want to improve any aspects of the generated code in the SDKs, the entire set of tools to create the SDKs are open, freely available, and based on a widely adopted API specification format. Samples: Get started quickly in the language of your choice.
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Here's a video demonstration of this overview: [AZURE.VIDEO azure-resource-manager-overview] Can resources interact with other resources in a different resource group?A resource can connect to resources in other resource groups. This scenario is common when the two resources are related but don't share the same lifecycle. For example, you can have a web app that connects to a database in a different resource group.
Can a resource be in two resource groups?Resource groups can be nested; a resource group can contain existing resource groups in the same region.
Can you have a resource group within a resource group Azure?Q: Can I nest an Azure resource group inside another resource group? A: No. Resource groups can't be nested inside resource groups. What's possible is to link resources from other resource groups within a resource group.
Can we move resources from one resource group to another in Azure?You can move Azure resources to either another Azure subscription or another resource group under the same subscription. You can use the Azure portal, Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, or the REST API to move resources. To learn more, see Move resources to a new resource group or subscription.
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