I understand that resources from different locations can all reside within one resource group. But when creating a new Resource Group, what is the purpose of choosing a location? Does it have any meaning?
Thanks
When creating a resource group, you need to provide a location for that resource group. You may be wondering, "Why does a resource group need a location? And, if the resources can have different locations than the resource group, why does the resource group location matter at all?" The resource group stores metadata about the resources. Therefore, when you specify a location for the resource group, you are specifying where that metadata is stored. For compliance reasons, you may need to ensure that your data is stored in a particular region.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/resource-group-overview
Actually it does matter:
Azure Resource Manager overview:
If the resource group's region is temporarily unavailable, you can't update resources in the resource group because the metadata is unavailable. The resources in other regions will still function as expected, but you can't update them.
For more information about building reliable applications, see Designing reliable Azure applications.
So we could imagine a situation where resource group is defined in LocationA, and all resources in that group are located in different region. When resource group region is unavailble then they may be issues when accessing metadata. Without metadata, it may not be able to failover.
Most templates in Azure ask you to specify a location(which is Azure Data Center Location) for each of the resources in a resource group.
Every resource is located in an Azure data center, but not every Azure data center supports every resource type.
Select any location that supports the resource type. You do not have to create all of the resources in a resource group in the same location;
However, whenever possible, you will want to create resources in the same location to optimize performance.
In particular, you will want to make sure that your database is in the same location as the app accessing it.
The resource group stores metadata about the resources. Therefore,
when you specify a location for the resource group, you are specifying
where that metadata is stored. For compliance reasons, you may need to
ensure that your data is stored in a particular region.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/resource-group-overview
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Recently I was provisioning a new Azure Synapse resource, which ended up creating 2 different resource groups.
I understand a resource group is basically a container for related items, fair enough but thinking about it more I am actually confused why would Azure decide to create two separate resource groups instead of just putting it all into one?
The bigger burning question I have is after creating a number of resources - Lets say each one spawns multiple resource groups.
How can I tell which resource group is a "child" or a "parent" of another?
#rodneyc8063 Thanks for updating the concern of your question. Posting your discussion in the comments as an Answer to help other community members.
As said by Daniel Mann you are getting the additional resource group because your synapse workspace is creating the managed resource group.
A managed resource group is like a container which can hold the resources required by your resource. It is created by default when your workspace is created.
You can name it if you want, else its name will be created automatically.
When you delete the Main Resource Group of your resource, then the resources inside it also will be deleted.
The managed resource group also deleted when you delete the resource(managed application).
That’s why the second resource group is deleted when you delete the first one.
As far as I know apart from this there is no relationship between them.
References:
Overview of managed applications - Azure Managed Applications | Microsoft Docs
Blog from DataSimAntics about managed resource group.
Currently for our Azure Disaster recovery plan we replicate workloads from a primary site/region to a secondary site. Where we mirror the source VM config and create required or associated resource groups, storage accounts, virtual networks, etc.
We are looking into an alternate method the wouldn't require a second resource group. This would require:
Use one, already existing resource group; i.e. testGroup-rg in East-US
Deploy new IaC components into the same RG but in Central-US
So in the singular resource group, if we wanted a function app, we would have two sets of components. testFuncApp in East-US and testFuncApp in Central-US.
This way we would only ever have one set of IaC created. Of course we would need to automate how to flow traffic etc. into a particular region if both exist.
Is this a possibility? If it is, is it even necessary/worth it?
Unfortunately there is no way to use the same RG. We need to have a resource group in target region if not Site Recovery creates a new resource group in the target region, with an "asr" suffix.
Just wondering what happens when an Azyre region goes down? It states in the documentation
If the resource group's region is temporarily unavailable, you can't update resources in the resource group because the metadata is unavailable. The resources in other regions will still function as expected, but you can't update them. For more information about building reliable applications, see Designing reliable Azure applications.
This to me reads that all resources in that region are in a read only mode meaning we can't modify the resource however we can still for exaple write to app insights?
However, if I have a resource group situated in EUN and it contains resources for multiple regions (EUN and EUW) what happens to the resources in this resource group?
I know its not correct to bundle multiple resources in a single resource group but its hangover from work done previously
Your example is correct. In such a scenario a resource in the online region can't be modified but will continue to function.
If you have a resource group in a region and that resource group contains resources from another region those resources will be online but you will not be able to update them.
For example, you have a resource group in West US 2 and it contains 2 Function Apps, one in West US 2 and one in East US. The Function in West US 2 will be offline because the region is offline. The Function in East US will be available but you will be unable to update it.
This is probably an elemental question, but why would you want to ensure that resources are deployed to the same locations as their resource groups? I'm getting out of compliance issues with HIPPA and from CloudSploit about this and I'd like to get some more details around it as I know it deals with meta data but I'm not crystal clear.
Thanks in advance
Resources within a resource group need not always be deployed in the same location as the resource group. But there is a built-in Azure Policy available to audit this condition that one may choose to enable.
The resource group location serves two purposes:
First: The resource group stores metadata about the resources. When you specify a location for the resource group, you're specifying where that metadata is stored. Now, for compliance reasons, you may need to ensure that your data is stored within a particular region.
Second: If the resource group's region is temporarily unavailable, you can't update resources in the resource group because the metadata is unavailable. The resources in other regions will still function as expected, but you can't update them.
For knowing more about the factors to consider while defining your resrouce groups, check the Azure Resource Manager documentation.
After the new model was implemented, all of my websites now belong to individual Resource Groups called "Default-Web-East" and all of my SQL databases belong to individual Resource Groups called "Default-SQL-East".
This is confusing to say the least.
I would like to rename the groups to have some semantic meaning. I would also like to group the associated SQL database and Web Site in the same Resource Group.
However, I do not see anyway to do either. Is this possible?
1) Rename the Resource Group?
2) Combine an existing SQL DB and Website together into one Resource Group?
Edit: You can't rename an Azure Resource Group.
What you can do is move your resources to a new Resource Group instead. Moving all resources in Resource Group A to Resource Group B is the poor man's rename.
Unfortunately not all resource providers let you move resources between resource groups, and some that do might have strings attached that only let you move resources under certain conditions.
For Azure Web Apps (previously called Azure Websites) you can currently only move all the websites related resources in a single invocation. That "all websites related resources" means all resource under the provider "Microsoft.Web". This includes all websites, app hosting platforms, and certificates that are in the source resource group.
Via the portal
When viewing a group's resources, you can use the "Move" tab
Clicking the "Move" tab will show something this, allowing you to choose or create a new group:
Via Azure Powershell
The easiest way to do this is to use the Move-AzureRmResource powershell cmdlet.
The command would look like this:
Get-AzureRmResource -ResourceGroupName <sourceResourceGroupName> | Move-AzureRmResource -DestinationResourceGroupName <destResourceGroupName>
source: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/resource-group-move-resources/
Via Rest API
The other way to do this is to use the MoveResource Rest API or with the ArmClient.
Here's the API call you'll want to make:
POST https://<endpoint>/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourcegroups/{resourceGroupName}/moveResources?api-version={api-version}
Where {resourceGroupName} is the source resource group.
I'm pretty sure the endpoint should be "https://management.azure.com", but if you use the ArmClient the tool will just take care of the endpoint for you.
Request Body:
{
"targetResourceGroup": "/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourceGroups/{targetResourceGroupNameName}",
"resources":
[
"/subscriptions/{id}/resourceGroups/{source}/providers/{namespace}/{type}/{name}",
"/subscriptions/{id}/resourceGroups/{source}/providers/{namespace}/{type}/{name}"
]
}
In addition to the main answer, Azure Portal has a feature of moving the Resources that is allowed to be moved to a new Resource group.
Go to your Resource Group that has Resources you want to move to an existing or a new created Resource Group.
Select the one, multiple or all (1) Resources you want to move and click on the Move (2) bottom as shown in image. (you can select moving to Resources with in the same subscription or to another subscription) A third option if you need just to change the Region) see the the figure at the end.
It will ask you to chose which Resource Group to move to.
Note: This process might take some time, be patient. When done, you
will see that the resource disappear from the old one and will be
found in the new one. That said some resources might be restricted
from been moved to other resources.
Move (Fixing) only region