Leon Welicki: Hello there. Thank you very much for
joining us today in this new Azure Portal How To video.
Today, we learn how to go through your Azure resources
across locations and subscriptions. And for that, we have
Sean Watson, who’s going to teach us all about browsing
your Azure resources. So, thank you, very much for joining us, 7 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:23,999 Sean.
Sean Watson: Thanks for having me, Leon. So, I’m going to
be talking about browsing your resources. And one of the
first things you want to do when you get into the portal is
actually navigate to your resource and take control of it
and manage it. So, let’s dive in there.
When you first land in the product, you’ll be greeted with
Azure home. And there’s a few different entry points the
browser resources, but we’re going to take the most common
route and we’re going to go via all resources.
Now, all resources is a single view to see all of your
resources in Azure Resource Manager. And from there, you
can see everything across subscriptions, locations, and
resource groups. So, that’s a pretty cool view to start
with. From all resources, you may see discrepancies when
you compare them with CLI or if you’re using some REST
endpoint to see your resources, and one of the things
there is we have a quick check box and this is a common
thing people run into is you have this holistic view via
CLI or REST and then in the portal, we only things which
have custom managed UX. Well, checking this box here
showing types, it’ll show you everything regardless of
that custom UX and it will show a general management
UX, if you want to go that view. So, from all resources,
I can quickly filter. I can search for a certain resource. I
can scope to set of subscriptions and see them. And then
I can actually filter via locations, resource groups, and
all the other cool things that we have here. But
particularly one of the things I want to show you about
the all resources view is how you can quickly dive off
into other areas. So, I can click on any of these entries
here and actually navigate to this resource. And if I
close this resource, I can come back and quickly navigate
into the resource group it’s applicable to as well. So, I
can delve off into there.
And similarly, I can do the same with subscriptions. So if
I select subscription here, it’ll show me the subscription.
I want to show you a specific resource view, so this is
cool. This is a common view, but this is really a common
view and it’s only got common functionality.
Leon: And when you say common, basically, that means
that in this view, we are looking resources across all the
locations, subscriptions, but also all resource types like
storage accounts - -
Sean: Correct.
Leon: Virtual machines, it doesn’t matter what the resource
type is. It’s showing in this list, right?
Sean: Yes, exactly. Every resource type in the system is
shown here. But really, I might want to focus in on
specific view and get that specific set of commanding or
functionality there. So, I want to take virtual machines,
for example. And here, I can see a list of virtual machines,
and it’s all my virtual machines I have access to within my
set of filters. And I can navigate to these virtual machines
and manage them as I normally should any resource, but
one of the cool things you can do is actually customize
this view. So, I can go into here and I can edit this view
to display any number of properties which are available
and particularly, I’m going to show operating system here.
I can then rearrange this view, so I’m going to take operating
system, and I’m going to drag it to the top, if I can grab
that. There we go. Try that one more time.
Leon: Third time is a charm.
Sean: It really is. There we go. Okay, so then I can apply
view and now I can see the operating system property for
all my virtual machines in this list.
As you customize this view and keep adding more and more
columns, I might need more real estate. So, one of the
things I can do is collapse away this left nav. And
that will give me some more real estate to really view all
the columns you need to. And if some of these columns
actually truncate in any which way, I can resize these
columns and that will be persisted across different sessions.
So, now I’ve actually reorganized this view to be perfect
and exactly how I want it. I can actually take quick action
in some of these resources. So, I’m going to select three
virtual machines here and now as you can see when I
select these, these commanding buttons light up. This
means I can actually apply this command to those resources.
And here, I can quickly start, stop, restart, and really some
high level commands and execute that in bulk across all
these different resources.
But we’re not going to do that. They’re not my resources.
So, what I can do is actually navigate to these resources
now. And here, I’ll see the whole view and how to manage
these resources, but particularly, there’s a cool feature
from browse. As you select through these menu items, I
can persist one of these views as I cycle through. So here,
I’m looking at disks. As I select the next virtual machine,
I’m still looking at disks. So, I can actually quickly compare
and jump through all the different items and see those
specific properties I care about without actually going back
through this common flow. And it’s a nice little flow.
One of the other quick things I want to show you, maybe
you actually look at this view and now I want to focus in
on this view. I can collapse the browse list away to
optimize the real estate for just looking at this resource.
And that just maybe I’m on a small monitor or I actually
really want to focus in on, I can do that. And it is flexible.
I can do that as I wish.
So, coming back up to the browse level, one of the things I
can do here is quickly filter. So, we spoke about it briefly,
but we didn’t really demo it. So, I’m going to filter in on
everything which is in just the east U.S. location.
And you can see the portal quickly reacts to that and filters
the results appropriately. And then one other thing is that
you can do here is we have all these specific views. There’s
many, many variations, as I mentioned. There’s around
about 200 services in the product today. As I actually apply
those different views and I’m going to the specific views
here, all these different views and everything in all services
have their own specific view with their own specific
commanding and different columns. So, you can really
customize what you want and delve into the different
views you need to.
Leon: Thank you very much, Sean. This is great. So,
basically, what we saw is like we saw that we have the all
resources list that shows us resources across everything
that I own Azure.
Sean: Correct, everything.
Leon: All resource types, right? And then if I care about a
more fit for purpose experience for a given resource, we
have all these lists that have functionality that is special
for those resources.
Sean: Exactly.
Leon: Thank you very much.
Sean: Thank you.
Leon: And thanks, every one of you for watching. Leave us
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Thanks for watching again, bye.