Resource Locks are a feature available in Azure to prevent the removal or change of resources. As an administrator, you can lock an Azure subscription, resource group, or resource to protect them from accidental user deletions and modifications. The lock overrides any user permissions.
Steps to Create a Resource Lock:
Step 1:
Create a Microsoft Azure account and login(portal.azure.com)
Step 2:
Click on the search bar and search for Resource Group
Step 3:
Click on Create
Step 4:
Subscription: Choose your subscription
Resource Group: Choose a name of your choice
Region: your location or your region
Click on Review and Create
Step 5:
Click on Create
Step 6:
Your Resource Group is created
Click on it to access it
Step 7:
To add a Lock to your Resource Group
Click on Lock
Step 8:
Click on Add
Lock name: Choose any name
Lock type: Choose Read Only or Delete; (CanNotDelete means authorized users can read and modify a resource, but they can't delete it. ReadOnly means authorized users can read a resource, but they can't delete or update it.)
Notes: It helps to pass a message about the lock information
Click on OK
Step 9:
Click Home and search for storage account to create a Storage Account
Click Storage Account
Step 10:
Click on Create
Step 11:
Subscription: Choose your subscription
Resource Group: I chose "marchworkload" because it is the resource group I want to lock. I'll advice the same be done always because you're saving your storage account in the resource group.
Storage Account Name: Choose a unique name across all existing accounts in Azure
Region: Choose your region
Click Review
Step 12:
Click on Create
Step 13:
The Storage account has been created
Click on 'Go to resource' to view
Step 14:
Try to delete and see the error message
Click on Delete in order to test if your resource group lock worked
Copy the resource group name
Paste in the arrow part on the right bottom of your screen
Delete
Step 15:
The error message displayed is as a result of the locks on the resource group. Locks must be removed before resource can be deleted
This implies that the resource was locked correctly
Step 16:
The way to successfully remove a lock resource:
Go to Home and click on the resource group
Click on Locks
Step 17:
Click on Delete
You can also change the lock type to 'Read Only' by clicking on 'edit' close to 'delete'
See the 2nd picture to view what pops up if you want to change the lock type
Step 18:
Go back to the resource group and try to delete the storage account after the removing the lock
Storage account was deleted successfully because of the removal of the locks
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