Resource Groups - Create Or Update

Service:

Resource Management

API Version:

2021-04-01

Creates or updates a resource group.

PUT https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/resourcegroups/{resourceGroupName}?api-version=2021-04-01

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
resourceGroupName	path	True	string	The name of the resource group to create or update. Can include alphanumeric, underscore, parentheses, hyphen, period (except at end), and Unicode characters that match the allowed characters. Regex pattern: ^[-\w\._\(\)]+$
subscriptionId	path	True	string	The Microsoft Azure subscription ID.
api-version	query	True	string	The API version to use for this operation.

Request Body

Name	Required	Type	Description
location	True	string	The location of the resource group. It cannot be changed after the resource group has been created. It must be one of the supported Azure locations.
managedBy		string	The ID of the resource that manages this resource group.
properties		ResourceGroupProperties	The resource group properties.
tags		object	The tags attached to the resource group.

Responses

Name	Type	Description
200 OK	ResourceGroup	OK - Returns information about the new resource group.
201 Created	ResourceGroup	Created - Returns information about the new resource group.
Other Status Codes	CloudError	Error response describing why the operation failed.

Security

azure_auth

Azure Active Directory OAuth2 Flow

Type: oauth2
Flow: implicit
Authorization URL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/authorize

Scopes

Name	Description
user_impersonation	impersonate your user account

Examples

Create or update a resource group

Sample Request

HTTP

PUT https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/resourcegroups/my-resource-group?api-version=2021-04-01

{
  "location": "eastus"
}

Go

package armresources_test

import (
	"context"
	"log"

	"github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azcore/to"
	"github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azidentity"
	"github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/resourcemanager/resources/armresources"
)

// Generated from example definition: https://github.com/Azure/azure-rest-api-specs/blob/4fd842fb73656039ec94ce367bcedee25a57bd18/specification/resources/resource-manager/Microsoft.Resources/stable/2021-04-01/examples/CreateResourceGroup.json
func ExampleResourceGroupsClient_CreateOrUpdate() {
	cred, err := azidentity.NewDefaultAzureCredential(nil)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("failed to obtain a credential: %v", err)
	}
	ctx := context.Background()
	clientFactory, err := armresources.NewClientFactory("<subscription-id>", cred, nil)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("failed to create client: %v", err)
	}
	res, err := clientFactory.NewResourceGroupsClient().CreateOrUpdate(ctx, "my-resource-group", armresources.ResourceGroup{
		Location: to.Ptr("eastus"),
	}, nil)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("failed to finish the request: %v", err)
	}
	// You could use response here. We use blank identifier for just demo purposes.
	_ = res
	// If the HTTP response code is 200 as defined in example definition, your response structure would look as follows. Please pay attention that all the values in the output are fake values for just demo purposes.
	// res.ResourceGroup = armresources.ResourceGroup{
	// 	Name: to.Ptr("my-resource-group"),
	// 	ID: to.Ptr("/subscriptions/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/resourceGroups/my-resource-group"),
	// 	Location: to.Ptr("eastus"),
	// 	Properties: &armresources.ResourceGroupProperties{
	// 		ProvisioningState: to.Ptr("Succeeded"),
	// 	},
	// }
}

To use the Azure SDK library in your project, see this documentation. To provide feedback on this code sample, open a GitHub issue

JavaScript

const { ResourceManagementClient } = require("@azure/arm-resources");
const { DefaultAzureCredential } = require("@azure/identity");

/**
 * This sample demonstrates how to Creates or updates a resource group.
 *
 * @summary Creates or updates a resource group.
 * x-ms-original-file: specification/resources/resource-manager/Microsoft.Resources/stable/2021-04-01/examples/CreateResourceGroup.json
 */
async function createOrUpdateAResourceGroup() {
  const subscriptionId =
    process.env["RESOURCES_SUBSCRIPTION_ID"] || "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000";
  const resourceGroupName = process.env["RESOURCES_RESOURCE_GROUP"] || "my-resource-group";
  const parameters = { location: "eastus" };
  const credential = new DefaultAzureCredential();
  const client = new ResourceManagementClient(credential, subscriptionId);
  const result = await client.resourceGroups.createOrUpdate(resourceGroupName, parameters);
  console.log(result);
}

To use the Azure SDK library in your project, see this documentation. To provide feedback on this code sample, open a GitHub issue

Sample Response

Status code:

201

{
  "id": "/subscriptions/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/resourceGroups/my-resource-group",
  "name": "my-resource-group",
  "location": "eastus",
  "properties": {
    "provisioningState": "Succeeded"
  }
}

Status code:

200

{
  "id": "/subscriptions/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/resourceGroups/my-resource-group",
  "name": "my-resource-group",
  "location": "eastus",
  "properties": {
    "provisioningState": "Succeeded"
  }
}

Definitions

Name	Description
CloudError	An error response for a resource management request.
ErrorAdditionalInfo	The resource management error additional info.
ErrorResponse	Error Response
ResourceGroup	Resource group information.
ResourceGroupProperties	The resource group properties.

CloudError

An error response for a resource management request.

Name	Type	Description
error	ErrorResponse	Error Response Common error response for all Azure Resource Manager APIs to return error details for failed operations. (This also follows the OData error response format.)

ErrorAdditionalInfo

The resource management error additional info.

Name	Type	Description
info	object	The additional info.
type	string	The additional info type.

ErrorResponse

Error Response

Name	Type	Description
additionalInfo	ErrorAdditionalInfo[]	The error additional info.
code	string	The error code.
details	ErrorResponse[]	The error details.
message	string	The error message.
target	string	The error target.

ResourceGroup

Resource group information.

Name	Type	Description
id	string	The ID of the resource group.
location	string	The location of the resource group. It cannot be changed after the resource group has been created. It must be one of the supported Azure locations.
managedBy	string	The ID of the resource that manages this resource group.
name	string	The name of the resource group.
properties	ResourceGroupProperties	The resource group properties.
tags	object	The tags attached to the resource group.
type	string	The type of the resource group.

ResourceGroupProperties

The resource group properties.

Name	Type	Description
provisioningState	string	The provisioning state.