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.

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.