With the classic Azure system management, you could previously manage only one resource on the Azure platform at the same time. But what about more complex applications, as are common today? The infrastructure of today's applications typically consists of several components - a virtual machine, a storage account, a virtual network, a web app, a database, a database server, or a third-party service. To manage such complex applications, with the first preview of the Azure management portal 3.0, the concept of resource groups was introduced.
You now see your components no longer as separate entities, but as related and interdependent parts of a single entity. So you will be able to manage all the resources of your application simultaneously.
As an instrument for this type of management, the Azure resource manager (and the Azure resource manager tools) was introduced, and...