Organizing resources
Microsoft Azure provides management levels to manage your cloud resources. These logical structures allow you to organize your resources in a hierarchy that matches your business organization and further provides an inheritance of the policies that you apply to them. Figure 3.2 shows the hierarchy of management groups, subscriptions, resource groups, and, finally, the resources:
Figure 3.2 – Azure management levels
Let’s understand the purpose of each of these entities in the hierarchy:
- Management groups: These are the highest level of management under the Azure tenant. They help you manage the access, policy, and compliance for all the subscriptions grouped under one management group.
- Subscription: A subscription groups a set of resources and associates a set of users to them. Subscriptions also have some quotas and limits to prevent over-use and manage costs.
- Resource groups: Resource groups are logical...
