Manage Resource Groups

Introduction to resource groups

Resource Groups enable users to easily manage sets of resources in multiple public cloud regions. Abiquo can onboard and manage Azure resource groups and OCI compartments, and their resources. All virtual resources in Azure and OCI will belong to a resource group, so you will need to select a resource group, and also an availability set, when you create resources.

Privileges: Manage resource groups, Delete resource groups

Resource groups are global entities and cloud providers do not contain Abiquo's business rules, such as user roles or scopes. So Abiquo has an additional privilege and recommendation for users managing resource groups.

Users who will manage resource groups will need to be able to display all of the tenant's Abiquo virtual datacenters and the resources within them. This is to ensure that the resources the user can manage in Abiquo and the cloud provider are the same. Otherwise, there may be "hidden" resources that a user cannot access through Abiquo.

Users can now access and work with resources in their resource groups, as well as in their virtual datacenters.

When users onboard or synchronize virtual datacenters, the platform will onboard or update the resource groups used in the platform, and it will delete any resource groups that do not exist.

Display resource groups

To display the resource groups in an Azure subscription:

Go to the myCloud view of virtual datacenters → click the globe Global view button
Select the Provider
Go to Resource groups

Create a resource group

In order to create a virtual datacenter in Azure or OCI, you must first create a resource group. You can use resource groups to manage groups of related resources in the cloud provider.

To create a resource group:

Go to Virtual datacenters by clicking the cloud button
Go to Global → select the cloud provider
Go to Resource groups
Click the + add button
Complete the dialog and click Save

Screenshot: Create a resource group in Azure

Screenshot: Create a resource group in OCI

For more details see GUI Create resource group

When you create a resource group, OCI may take some time to create it, so please be patient.

Edit resources in a resource group

To display and edit the resource groups in an Azure subscription:

Go to Virtual datacenters view → Global
Select the Provider
On the Resource groups page, select a resource group
Select a resource and click the pencil edit button

Delete a resource group

You can delete resource groups in Abiquo and the cloud provider, or in Abiquo only.

When you delete a resource group in Abiquo and the cloud provider:

for OCI, to delete a resource group, it must be empty.
for Azure, you can delete a resource group that contains resources, and Azure will delete all the resources.

In Azure, when you delete a resource group, you will delete ALL its resources in Azure, and Azure will not consider business rules. For example, it will not check if the user only has limited access to VDCs in the platform. So to delete a resource group, you must have the Delete resource groups privilege.

When you delete a resource group in Abiquo only:

for OCI, the resource group must be empty in Abiquo.
for Azure, the resource group must be empty. So you must first remove all of its resources from Abiquo only, or in Azure too. This means that you must have access to all of the resources.

Privileges: Manage resource groups, Delete resource groups

To delete a resource group:

Go to Virtual datacenters
Go to Global → select a provider
Go to Resource groups
Select a resource group
Click the trash bin delete button

For more details see GUI Delete resource group

Please note that it may take a long time to delete the resource group in the cloud provider.

Related pages:

The following pages describe screens to create Azure entities with Resource Groups.