How to Protect Your Azure Resources with Resource Manager Locks

 

How to Protect Your Azure Resources with Resource Manager Locks

Azure Resource Manager locks are a powerful tool that can help you to protect your Azure resources from accidental deletion or modification.

What are Resource Manager locks?

Resource Manager locks are a way to prevent users from making changes to resources in Azure. There are two types of Resource Manager locks:

• Read-only locks prevent users from making any changes to the resource, including deletion.
• Delete locks prevent users from deleting the resource.

Why use Resource Manager locks?

There are several reasons why you might want to use Resource Manager locks. Here are a few of the most common reasons:

• To prevent accidental deletion. A common mistake that administrators make is accidentally deleting resources in Azure. Resource Manager locks can help you to prevent this by preventing users from deleting resources without your permission.
• To protect sensitive resources. If you have resources that are sensitive or confidential, you may want to use Resource Manager locks to prevent unauthorised users from making changes to them.
• To enforce compliance requirements. If your organisation has compliance requirements that restrict how resources can be modified, you can use Resource Manager locks to enforce those requirements.

How to create a Resource Manager lock

To create a Resource Manager lock, you can use the Azure portal, the Azure CLI, or the Azure PowerShell.

Here are the steps on how to create a Resource Manager lock using the Azure portal:

1. Go to the Azure portal.
2. Click the Resource locks blade.
3. Click the Create button.
4. Select the type of lock that you want to create.
5. Select the resource that you want to lock.
6. Select the users or groups that you want to grant access to the lock.
7. Click the Create button.

Here are the steps on how to create a Resource Manager lock using the Azure CLI:

1. Install the Azure CLI.
2. Open a command prompt.
3. Run the following command:

az lock create --name myLock --resource-type Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines --resource-name myVM --lock-type ReadOnly

Here are the steps on how to create a Resource Manager lock using the Azure PowerShell:

1. Install the Azure PowerShell module.
2. Open a PowerShell console.
3. Run the following command:

New-AzResourceLock -Name myLock -ResourceType Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines -ResourceId myVM -LockType ReadOnly

Conclusion

Resource Manager locks are a valuable tool for protecting your Azure resources. By creating Resource Manager locks, you can prevent accidental deletion or modification of your resources, and you can also enforce compliance requirements.