Azure Resource Manager

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4u0NL2-3XM&list=PLlVtbbG169nED0_vMEniWBQjSoxTsBYS3&index=13

Built around the idea of resource providers

• Think about Azure as a big cloud service that is made up of resource providers

• You have Virtual Machines, Disk, Images, Snapshots, etc..

  • These are defined within the Computer resource provider

  • There is also a Billing resource provider as another example

• An Azure VM is made up of 5 resources

  • VM, NSG, Network Interface, Disk, and Public IP Address

    • These are all its' own resources with their own access controls, tags, activity log, etc

• With ARM, it doesn't matter if you are using Powershell, the Azure Portal, REST API.. it does not matter since they all communicate with ARM

• You can create a JSON file, which is declarative, to quickly spin up resources with ARM

• BICEP is a more friendly JSON file