Azure Resource Manager

Azure Resource Manager, also popularly known as ARM, is the successor of Azure Service Management and is the new management framework that helps in provisioning, managing, monitoring, and governing Azure Resources.

Provisioning

The ARM framework helps to provision resources. The entire framework is highly scalable, performance-centric, and comprises multiple internal components. These components are not directly visible to users, but they help implement modularity and reusability within the overall architecture.

Here is the ARM architecture:

Here is the same architecture using examples of resource providers and types:

We will be referring to this architecture not only in this section but also throughout...