Using Azure Management Groups & Setting Budgets

I was setting up a new Azure lab and decided to do a quick video showing how you can use management groups as well as how to use budgets within your own lab (or production deployment of course).

I dig management groups because I LOVE to organize stuff as much as possible, and management groups allow you to organize your subscriptions and resources in a clean way so that you can apply policies, requirements, budgets, IAM restrictions, etc., For anything within that management group.

Within Azure, organization flows down the hierarchy, so it goes from management groups, to subscriptions, to resource groups, to resources. (Of course, the Azure AD tenant sits at the top of everything…but I’m sure you get the point)

The best way to get familiar is to setup a lab of your own so you can become familiar with all of the tools Azure has, or at least those that you are interested in. Sometimes I’ll use my Azure lab to test things I’m implementing at work, while other times I may use it to learn totally new tools that have sparked my interest.

Either way, I dig playing around with Azure tools, and for some reason I really dig the admin interface.