Powershell script to get all parent resources - azure

Question

Good day,
I am trying to figure out a way to get all the parent objects in my azure subcription to a csv from Azure.
By parent object, I am refering to objects like, VMs, Webapps, Kubernetes Clusters, ect. I want to strip away any data that is deemed illrevelant like Nics, PIPs, storage disks, ect. I am not super proficent in powershell. and I am not sure how to tackle this.
I have an azure workbook that I created that gives a good overview in a nice format, I would like to export the entire workbook for offline viewing but that doesn't seem to be possible.
Any help would be greatly appreiciated.

Answer 1

So, what's an "interesting" resource to you may not be to the next person, and vice versa - in some cases, for example, I may set up NICs independently of my VMs, and want to see them. I don't think there's a way to automatically get just the things you want. What you could do is create a list of resources that are interesting to you (by type), and then use Powershell to create your report:
Get 'em all and filter 'em
$resourceTypes = #(
'Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines',
'Microsoft.Sql/servers',
'Microsoft.Sql/servers/databases'
)
$resources = #()
Get-AzResource | ForEach-Object {
if ($resourceTypes -contains $_.resourceType) {
$resources += [PSCustomObject] #{
ResourceGroupName = $_.ResourceGroupName
ResourceName = $_.ResourceName
ResourceType = $_.ResourceType
}
}
}
$resources | Sort-Object ResourceType, ResourceGroupName, ResourceName |
Export-Csv -Path <path to>\resources.csv
Get 'em type by type (this one loops through subscriptions to which you have access, will print out a line with the current context on each subscription, will restore context to the current subscription when done)
$resourceTypes = #(
'Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines',
'Microsoft.Sql/servers',
'Microsoft.Sql/servers/databases'
)
$resources = #()
$currentContext = Get-AzContext
try {
Get-AzSubscription | ForEach-Object {
$_ | Set-AzContext
$subscriptionName = $_.Name
$resourceTypes | ForEach-Object {
Get-AzResource -ResourceType $_ | ForEach-Object {
$resources += [PSCustomObject] #{
SubscriptionName = $subscriptionName
ResourceGroupName = $_.ResourceGroupName
ResourceName = $_.ResourceName
ResourceType = $_.ResourceType
}
}
}
}
} finally {
$currentContext | Set-AzContext
}
$resources | Sort-Object ResourceType, SubscriptionName, ResourceGroupName, ResourceName |
Export-Csv -Path <path to>\resources.csv
Whichever approach you choose, just customize the $resourceTypes list to contain just the resource types that you want.
To get a list of resource types, I do something like this:
Get-AzResourceProvider -ProviderNamespace Microsoft.Sql |
Select ProviderNamespace -Expand ResourceTypes |
Select #{ L="Provider"; E={ "$($_.ProviderNameSpace)/$($_.ResourceTypeName)" } }
Leave off the -ProviderNamespace Microsoft.Sql if you want to get all resource types, but that will be a long list.