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 course, 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 course, 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 course, 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
I hope you've enjoyed learning about managing Azure subscriptions and resource groups. Let's review what you've learned. We kicked things off by covering key roles within an Azure subscription, including the contributor role, the owner role, reader, and user access administrator. You learned what each role does and how to assign and change roles.
We then dove into subscription policies and what role they play within a subscription. Next, we took a look at resource groups and how to manage those. You learned about resource policies and how to assign them. You also learned what Resource Locks are and how to use them to secure Azure resources.
Coming down the homestretch, we cover tagging and how to use tags to group resources together. Rounding out the course, you learned how to move resources between resource groups and how to delete resource groups altogether.
To learn more about managing Azure subscriptions and resource groups, be sure to review the documentation published by Microsoft. Be sure to also watch for new Microsoft Azure courses on Cloud Academy because we're always publishing new ones. Please give this course a rating, and if you have any questions or comments, please let us know. Thanks for watching and happy learning.
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