Define resource group
Microsoft Azure uses resource groups to contain related resources. Access Gateway VM and disk must be created within the same resource group.
- Sign in to the Microsoft Azure Portal.
- From the menu, select Resource Groups.
- Click Add to add a new resource group.
- In the Basics pane, enter a name and choose an appropriate region to house the group.
If you have multiple subscriptions you may also select a subscription. - Click Review + create.
- Click Create.
- Sign in or return to the Microsoft Azure command line interface.az login
- Use the az account list-locations command to list all known locations and select one. az account list-locations Which provides the following output:
[{
From the list, select an appropriate region, identified by the name field."displayName": "East US",
...
"name": "eastus",
},{. . . }]
- Create a resource group within a given location using the az group create command:az group create -l <location> -n <name>Where:
- <location> is a region code.
- <name> is an appropriate name.
"id": "/subscriptions/. . . /resourceGroups/AccessGateway",
"location": "eastus",
"managedBy": null,
"name": "AccessGateway", . . .
"type": "Microsoft.Resources/resourceGroups"
}