In this Azure tutorial, we will discuss the Azure portal.
Azure portal
Before discussing the What is Azure portal? You can get some knowledge on What Microsoft Azure is and how Microsoft Azure Works. Now, Let’s discuss the Microsoft Azure portal.
Azure Portal Tutorial
Azure Portal is a single portal where you can access and manage all your applications in one place. You can build, manage, and monitor your simple web-apps to complex cloud applications using a single portal.
Azure Portal Login
You can use the URL below for Microsoft Azure portal login:
Features Of Azure Portal
The Microsoft Azure portal provides many features.
A single place to manage applications
Azure portal provides a single place/environment to manage all your applications.
This is a place to manage your storage, compute, Virtual machines, etc. Azure Cloud Shell is a command-line utility that helps manage all the different applications.
Cool Dashboard
Azure portal gives an excellent Dashboard that allows you to add your needed applications to be monitored and accessed easily whenever you want to check.
We can customize this dashboard to bring the resources you use frequently into a single view in one place.
You can also create customized dashboards based on your business needs and share it with other users in your organization.
Role-based access controls and security features
Azure portal provides role-based access controls and security features by offering subscriptions at the individual and group levels.
That means you can access the resources only with the proper subscription.
Friendly UI
Azure portal provides a user-friendly user interface that is easy to understand and does the operations easily. A person with minimal platform knowledge can easily understand the simple UI.
Microsoft is constantly working on the user interface part to provide an easy-to-use UI always.
No Downtime
The Azure portal is designed for continuous availability. It updates continuously, so maintenance activities require no downtime.
How To Use Azure Portal
You need to create an Azure account to use the Azure portal for the first time.
To create an Azure free account, refer to my article How to Create Azure Free Account (Step-by-Step tutorial).
Once you have created the Azure account, you can log in to the Azure portal.
Login to the Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com/)
It will ask you to provide the credentials. You can enter your Azure credentials and click on the Sign in button.
Once you log in, you will see the home page of the Azure portal
1: This is the Global search area. You can quickly use this search bar to find a specific resource, a service, etc.
2: This is the Global control area. The options are Cloud Shell, Directory + Subscription, Notifications, Portal Settings, Help and Support, and Feedback.
3: Details of your account. The other options are View information about your account, sign out, or sign in with a different account.
4: The left side highlighted portion is the Resource menu and one-click access to all the services and options.
The top portion highlighted is the search area,
Once you click on the Dashboard, the dashboard page will open and will look like the below
1: Microsoft Azure page header. It appears at the top of each page
2: My Dashboard. You can see all your customized dashboard names here.
3: The options here are creating a + New dashboard, Upload, Download, Edit, Share, Fullscreen, Clone, Delete, and Refresh options.
From the left side menu, you will get all the below options
1: Expand or collapse the left-side portal menu options.
2: Option to create a resource based on your business needs + Create a resource link.
3: Your favorites lists of all resources.
Once you click on the + Create resource button, You can search for the resource to create
Below are the options on this page.
1: This is known as Breadcrumb. You can use the breadcrumb links to go to a level back.