How-To: Manage resource groups

Learn how to manage resource groups in Radius
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This guide will walk you through the process of managing resource groups in Radius. For more information on resource groups, see Resource groups.

Pre-requisites

Step 1: Ensure Radius is installed

Begin by making sure that Radius is installed on your Kubernetes cluster:

rad install kubernetes

Step 2: Create a resource group

Run rad group create to create a resource group:

rad group create myGroup

You should see:

creating resource group "myGroup" in namespace "default"...

resource group "myGroup" created

Step 3: View your resource group

Run rad group show to view the your resource group:

rad group show myGroup

You should see:

ID                                            NAME
/planes/radius/local/resourcegroups/myGroup   myGroup

You can use the -o json flag to view more information about the resource group:

rad group show -o json

You should see:

{
    "id": "/planes/radius/local/resourcegroups/myGroup",
    "location": "global",
    "name": "myGroup",
    "tags": {},
    "type": "System.Resources/resourceGroups",
}

Step 4: Set your resource group as the default

Setting a default resource group allows you to run commands like rad deploy without specifying the -g/--group flag explicitly every time. Run rad group switch to set your new resource group as the default:

rad group switch myGroup

You can now run rad deploy or rad recipe list without needing to specify the group.

Step 5: Delete your resource group

Run rad group delete to delete a resource group:

rad group delete myGroup