Azure Resource Manager (ARM)

Azure Resource Manager is the deployment and management service for Azure. It provides a management layer that enables you to create, update, and delete resources in your Azure account. You use management features, like access control, locks, and tags, to secure and organize your resources after deployment.

With Resource Manager, you can:

• Manage your infrastructure through declarative templates rather than scripts.
• Deploy, manage, and monitor all the resources for your solution as a group, rather than handling these resources individually.
• Redeploy your solution throughout the development lifecycle and have confidence your resources are deployed in a consistent state.
• Define the dependencies between resources so they're deployed in the correct order.
• Apply access control to all services because Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC) is natively integrated into the management platform.
• Apply tags to resources to logically organize all the resources in your subscription.
• Clarify your organization's billing by viewing costs for a group of resources sharing the same tag.