Azure has introduced Azure Resource Manager (ARM) to solve the challenges related to the way we manage projects in Azure. Most of the solutions deployed are a combination of two or more services. For example, running a virtual machine requires the deployment of three different services:
A VM instance
A storage account that contains the disk images
A cloud service
A customer solution is more complex that this, and there are two main issues:
Deploying a solution can be complex due to the number of services that needs to be created and configured
Organizing and managing all these resources can become cumbersome if we cannot associate some metadata to describe why we have deployed every single resource and the solution it refers. If we can do this, we can then list, group, and filter services by solution and have a more clear and usable view of resources
ARM has changed the way we manage and deploy resources by including the following features...