If you are just getting started with Azure CLI and Bash scripting, this post is for you. I will walk you through how I automated the creation of Azure resource groups for multiple environments using a single Bash script — something that was taking a cloud admin several manual steps every week.

This is Project 2 in my TechRush Cloud Engineering bootcamp series. If you want to see where this journey started, you can read my previous post where I tackled deploying a web app across two Azure regions for the first time. That project involved real blockers — quota limits, CLI version mismatches, and a deep dive into Azure Resource Providers. This one went smoother, and I think that is because the previous project was the hard school.

The Problem

Imagine a cloud administrator who has to create five resource groups every single week, one for each active project:

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