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Understand resource groups

Understand resource groups

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Understand resource groups

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- [Instructor] A resource group is a set of resources within a subscription. Management groups hold subscriptions and subscriptions hold resource groups. We use resource groups to collate resources pertaining to an application or a solution, because enterprise applications that run on the cloud are complex and leverage multiple services and resources. Managing this mixture of items can become chaotic really fast. That's why we use resource groups to classify and organize related or relevant resources together. Back to the shopping cart example. After you bring home the items you shop for, you group similar products together. You take fresh fruits and vegetables out to wash, put chips and nachos in the junk food drawer, and frozen items in the freezer. It's easier to categorize and manage them as a group because of their similar compositions. Resource groups serve the same purpose in the cloud. You classify and organize resources to manage shared permissions, policies and lifecycle…

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