Azure Advisor recommendations - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Azure Advisor Recommendations Setup

📖 Scenario: You are managing an Azure subscription and want to use Azure Advisor to get personalized best practice recommendations. These recommendations help optimize your resources for cost, security, reliability, operational excellence, and performance.

🎯 Goal: Set up a simple Azure Advisor configuration to retrieve and display recommendations for your subscription using Azure CLI commands in a script.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a variable to hold your Azure subscription ID.

Create a variable to specify the recommendation category to filter.

Write a command to list Azure Advisor recommendations filtered by the category.

Add a command to show details of a specific recommendation.

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Azure Advisor helps cloud administrators optimize their Azure resources by providing actionable recommendations.

💼 Career

Knowing how to programmatically access Azure Advisor recommendations is useful for cloud engineers and administrators to automate cost and security optimizations.

1

Set Azure Subscription ID

Create a variable called subscription_id and set it to the exact string "12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789abc" representing your Azure subscription ID.

Azure

# Create a variable called subscription_id and assign the subscription ID string
# Your code here

Need a hint?

The subscription ID is a string in quotes. Assign it exactly as given.

2

Set Recommendation Category Filter

Create a variable called recommendation_category and set it to the exact string "Cost" to filter Azure Advisor recommendations by cost category.

Azure

subscription_id = "12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789abc"
# Create a variable called recommendation_category and assign the string "Cost"
# Your code here

Need a hint?

The category is a string and must match exactly "Cost".

3

List Azure Advisor Recommendations

Write a command string called list_recommendations_cmd that uses az advisor recommendation list with the subscription ID and filters by the recommendation category variable. The command should be exactly: az advisor recommendation list --subscription {subscription_id} --category {recommendation_category} using f-string formatting.

Azure

subscription_id = "12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789abc"
recommendation_category = "Cost"
# Create a command string list_recommendations_cmd using f-string with az advisor recommendation list and filters
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use an f-string to insert variables into the command string exactly as shown.

4

Show Details of a Specific Recommendation

Create a command string called show_recommendation_cmd that uses az advisor recommendation show with the subscription ID and a recommendation ID variable called recommendation_id. Set recommendation_id to the exact string "1234abcd-12ab-34cd-56ef-1234567890ab". The command should be exactly: az advisor recommendation show --subscription {subscription_id} --recommendation-id {recommendation_id} using f-string formatting.

Azure

subscription_id = "12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789abc"
recommendation_category = "Cost"
list_recommendations_cmd = f"az advisor recommendation list --subscription {subscription_id} --category {recommendation_category}"
# Create a variable recommendation_id with the string "1234abcd-12ab-34cd-56ef-1234567890ab"
# Create a command string show_recommendation_cmd using f-string with az advisor recommendation show
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Assign the recommendation ID string exactly and use an f-string to build the show command.