How to compare azure resources configuration

Question

I have two resources of the same kind and want to find a easy way to compare their configuration to find differences.

In my project I have several resources of the same kind but with slightly different configuration. I want to make a list of the configuration differences and want to find a easy way to do so.

I'm quite new to azure but I know there is a Resource explorer who shows me configuration in JSON format, but I'm not sure if this shows me the whole configuration or just a part of it and I don't know how to access it / download this configuration via CLI for comparison.

The resources are of different kind e.g. comsos db, key vault, data lake etc.

Whats the best way to do this task?

Answer 1

As I know, the Azure Storage Explorer will inculde the whole(or close to whole, this depends on specific case) configuration.

If you want to use CLI, you could use this command - az resource show, it shows the details of the resources, just specify the --resource-type with what resource you want.

az resource show [--api-version]
                 [--ids]
                 [--include-response-body {false, true}]
                 [--name]
                 [--namespace]
                 [--parent]
                 [--resource-group]
                 [--resource-type]
                 [--subscription]