Resource groups in Microsoft Azure are logical containers. A resource group is useful for managing resources and providing role-based access to all the resources available in the group easily. It can be used to group all different resources such as App Services, SQL databases, and storage accounts available in Microsoft Azure. We will consider services that we will use in this chapter for most of the examples.

For example, we need to create resources such as Azure Web Apps, SQL database, and a storage account in West US and provide access to some users. It is painful to assign users to individual resources. Rather, it is more manageable if we can provide group access to all the resources.

This way the resources can be managed in a better way.

1. To create a resource group, go to Azure Portal https://portal.azure.com and click on Resource Groups in the left sidebar menu.
2. Click on + Add to create a resource group.
3. Provide the Resource group name, select Subscription, select Resource group location, and then click on Create:
   

4. Wait until the resource group is created:

5. Click on the AzureFunctions resource group:

6. Once the AzureFunctions</span resource group is created, click on it and verify the Overview section. As of now, there are no resources in the resource group, hence there are No deployments in the Overview section and No resources to display:

7. To provide role-based access, click on Access control (IAM). Check the OWNER and other details:

8. Click on + Add and select Contributor role. Find the member whom you want to give access to this resource group:

9. Select the member and click on Save:

We will use this resource group in the coming chapters as a logical container for different resources such as Azure Functions and storage.