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Kenzo_Gilead
Kenzo_Gilead

Reputation: 2439

Architecture Azure AD Resource Groups

Please, could you tell me the advantages and disadvantages of using the resources of the Stage and Dev environments in a single Resource Group? As information: Access to these resources is common and the life cycle will be 90% the same. What other critical factors can affect this configuration?

Many Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 87

Answers (1)

Peter Bons
Peter Bons

Reputation: 29780

There are not many cons in using 2 resource groups for this IMHO. If those 2 rgs are the only ones in the same subscription you can define RBAC at the subscription level so that is one disavantage taken away. There are many advantages:

  • Fine grained access control, seperated by environment.
  • Possibility to deploy the resources using ARM/Bicep templates. Even if the life cycle is 90% the same, the 10% can make it hard to use a complete deployement using ARM/Bicep. Also, I strongly recommend a template per environment.
  • Apply tags per resource group to create budget/get costs insights

If one of those features listed here might be useful now or in the near future, I wouldn't hesitate to use 2 resource groups.

Upvotes: 2

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