Technical Requirements

To follow along with the hands-on material, you will need the following:

• Access to an Azure subscription with owner or contributor privileges. If you do not have access to one, students can enroll for a free account: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/
• PowerShell 5.1 or later installed on a Windows PC or PowerShell Core 6.x on other operating systems, to practice the labs.
• Where PowerShell is not installed https://shell.azure.com can be used as a browser-based Azure PowerShell.
• Installation of the Az PowerShell module, which can be performed by running the following in an administrative PowerShell session:

  Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser
  Install-Module -Name Az -Scope CurrentUser -Repository PSGallery -Force

Now, you will dive into the first topic and learn about resource group management.