How to create a Resource Group using Azure Portal, Azure CLI, Powershell, and Terraform
🎯What is a resource group?
A resource group is a logical container that holds all the resources. It’s employed to logically aggregate a variety of Azure resources, including virtual machines, VNets, storage accounts, etc., for simple deployment, metering, and access control.
🈚You need an Azure account in order to create a resource group. Visit portal.azure.com to register a free tier account if you don’t already have one.
🈯Let’s create a resource group using the Azure portal.
👉You will see the Azure User Interface (UI) as shown below once you have successfully logged into your Azure account.
👉Click on “Create” to create a new resource group.
To create a resource group, you’ll need to have a name and location details handy.
👉Wow successfully created a resource group 😍.
🎯 Let’s delete the resource group .
👉Go to Resource groups- > select the resource group which was created — — >Click on “Delete resource group”.
👉Confirm the name of the resource group and click “Delete”.
👉Successfully deleted the resource group from the Azure portal👏.
🎯Let’s create a resource group using the Azure CLI.
👉Download and run the Azure CLI msi file. Azure CLI is a command line interface that allows users to login into Azure and run administrative commands on the Azure resources. This software integrates with our existing command prompt.
👉Go to Search — Command prompt –Run as Administrator.
👉To login into Azure from a command prompt, enter the command “az login”.
👉Command to create a resource group.
👉Command to list the resource groups, “az group list”.
👉Successfully created the resource group 😎.
👉Command to delete the resource group and you would be thinking why there is no location 🤔. No need to mention the location as the resource group name is unique irrespective of the region.
👉Successfully deleted the resource group.
👉Refer to the page if you want to learn more about Azure CLI commands.
🎯Let’s create a resource group using the cloud shell.
👉In the Azure portal and click the Cloud Shell icon. Running the Bash or Powershell shell creates a resource group, storage server, and file server while launching the cloud shell.
👉Click on PowerShell and click “show advanced options” to see the resource group ,storage and file server details.
👉Successfully created the resource group with a predefined group name.
👉You can run Bash or PowerShell when you launch the cloud shell. I choose PowerShell 😍 because I love it.
👉Basic PowerShell commands
📌To list the subscription “get-azSubscription”
📌To list resource groups -”get-azresourceGroup”
📌To create a new resource Group “new-AzResourceGroup -Name ‘xxxxx’ -Location ‘xxxxx’ ”
📌To delete a resource Group “remove-azresourceGroup cloud-shell-storage-westeurope”
👉Successfully deleted the resource group 👏
🎯Let’s look at installing PowerShell on our computer and connecting to the Azure account.
👉Check the execution policy on your PowerShell console by using the command “ Get-ExecutionPolicy”, if it’s set to restricted, you need to set it to unrestricted to run scripts.
👉Check that Azure modules are installed by running the command “Get-Command *az*”.
👉Install the Azure module using an install-module command. allowclobber is used to overwrite the module if it already exists.
👉Once the modules are installed , we can use the same commands that were used for cloud shell.
👉Windows Powershell ISE can be used if scripts need to be run. Can enter multiple commands in the script and execute them.
👉Press F8 to run an individual command, and press F5 to run a script.
🎯Troubleshooting in case you are unable to connect to your Azure account.
👉I tried numerous different methods to connect to my Azure account, but I kept getting errors.
👉Finally, I checked the internet and discovered a solution😍.
👉Commands to reconnect to your Azure account.
📌Import-Module Az.Accounts
📌Clear-AzContext
📌Connect-AzAccount -Tenant <tenant id>
Refer to the link for the PowerShell Command Reference
🎯Let’s create a resource group using Terraform.
👉Go to Extensions and install the Azure Terraform extension.
👉If you want to see a list of the available extensions, enter @installed in the search bar for extensions to see if they have been installed or not.
👉Install the Azure CLI and connect to the Azure account.
👉Create a folder for Azure in Visual Studio Code and create a file with the .tf extension.
👉Enter the name and location of the resource group.
🎯Terraform commands to execute to create and destroy the resource group
📌terraform init- This command installs plugins for necessary providers and creates a working directory with configuration files.This command needs to be used just once during project initialization.
📌terraform fmt- This command is used to format the configuration files.
📌terraform validate- This command is used for validating the syntax.
📌terraform plan- Run the terraform plan to perform a dry run to see what occurs when the commands are carried out.
📌terraform apply-auto-approve-Apply the changes
📌terraform destroy -Destroy the resources mentioned in the .tf file
📌terraform state list -To verify the resources created.
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