Locking Azure resources

Now you know how to organize your resources, but for working with the resources, there is still another functionality that is important, which I will introduce now.

Azure resource locks

What does this mean? As an administrator, you may need to lock a resource group, or resource to prevent other users from accidentally deleting or modifying critical resources. The Azure resource manager offers a mechanism with two levels (CanNotDelete or ReadOnly) to be able to make appropriate settings.

Let's take a look at this:

1. In the portal, click on Resource groups:

2. On the Resource groups blade, click the acdppbook name field:

3. In the navigation section on the Resource groups dashboard, click on the Locks button:

4. On the Locks blade, click on the Add button:

5. Now type ppbookdemo in the Lock name textbox, select a Lock type, and click on OK:

6. Your first lock is ready.

Note

Attention! I have put in my example Read-only as a Lock type on Resource groups. This lock is automatically inherited to...