Azure Resource Manager Reviews

Azure Resource Manager provides valuable features like managing subscriptions and project resources. It's user-friendly, aids in team management, and facilitates deployment. Azure Blueprints and ARM templates enhance flexibility and compliance, allowing template customization with user inputs. Resources are scalable and documentation is comprehensive. It eliminates deployment challenges by organizing code and initializing features easily. Policies and tagging help identify resources, enhancing accessibility, while reserving incentives and automating resources are straightforward. Microsoft ensures extensive online resources are available.

• "The Azure Resource Manager is complete, where we can manage all the resources."
• "The product's initial setup phase was easy, as the documentation and information were very good."
• "ARM templates make parameterizing and using variables in your DevOps pipeline easy."

User interfaces and integration need enhancement. Simplifying roles and supporting automation through a common line are required. ARM templates should support multi-cloud environments. Efficiency in defined roles could improve. Latency and cost concerns exist. Policy cascading works, but tags do not. Terraform is preferred over ARM due to versatility. Microsoft could focus more on AI capabilities like Copilot and enhance support services.

• "They should focus more on AI features such as Copilot."
• "At a group level, if I apply a policy, it gets cascaded to all the resources underneath it, but it is not possible when it comes to tags. When I apply tags at a group level, it should go to the resource under it."
• "Compared to ARM templates, Terraform is often preferred because it is more versatile and user-friendly. With Terraform, you can create a single, generic script that works across multiple cloud environments, including AWS, Azure, GCP, and even Oracle Cloud. This eliminates the need to write separate scripts for each platform."