What's changed: Revamped AZ-900 Chapter 6 to the new depth (management tools interactive/scripted/IaC + Arc; monitoring Monitor/Log Analytics/App Insights/alerts/Advisor/Service Health)
6.1Managing and Deploying Resources
Understand the ways to operate and deploy Azure—Azure portal, Cloud Shell, Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell, ARM templates / Bicep (IaC), and Azure Arc—and when to use each.
You can operate and deploy Azure resources in several ways, in three broad families—interactive (click) / scripted (commands) / declarative (code = IaC)—and every request goes through ARM (Azure Resource Manager) seen in earlier chapters, so results are consistent regardless of method. Choose by whether you want speed or automation/repeatability.
6.1.1Interactive tools
- Azure portal: the web GUI—click to inspect and create; good for learning, one-off tasks, and getting an overview.
- Azure Cloud Shell: a browser-based terminal (with Azure CLI and PowerShell, no setup, already authenticated)—use commands without installing anything locally.
6.1.2Scripting and code
- Azure CLI: commands starting with
az(cross-platform); good for automation/scripts. - Azure PowerShell: operate via
Azmodule cmdlets (verb-noun form). - ARM templates / Bicep: infrastructure as code (IaC)—declare configuration to deploy the same environment repeatably and automatically (Bicep is a cleaner, newer syntax than ARM JSON and compiles to ARM at deploy time).
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