What is Azure Management?
Azure management refers to the tasks and processes required to maintain your business applications and the resources that support them not just in Azure, but across other clouds and on-premises environments too. Think of it as a lifecycle. Every resource you create goes through stages: it's deployed, it runs and gets maintained, and eventually it's retired. Azure management covers all of that, from start to finish.
You can't practice managing cloud resources if you don't have any resources to manage. So before diving into monitoring, governance, or security in Azure, the first job is simple: build something.
In this walkthrough, we'll stand up a small but complete environment: a resource group to hold everything, a virtual network for connectivity, a Linux virtual machine to act as our compute workload, and a storage account. Nothing fancy, just enough real infrastructure to give the later management work something to actually apply to.
Before You Start
