Scheduled Sandbox Cleanup in Azure.

Question

Hey, is there a way to cleanup/delete all resources in the Sandbox subscription automatically, on a weekly basis?

Best regards

Answer 1

You would need to setup an Azure Automation runbook, on a schedule to delete your resources,.

Jack Tracey - has published a script: https://github.com/jtracey93/PublicScripts/tree/master/Azure/PowerShell/Enterprise-scale

This script will remove everything under a management group and everything in the subscriptions, it can also remove SPNs and reset Cloud for Defender pricing back to Free.

Its a nuclear option - but very useful in sandbox environments.

THIS SCRIPT WILL REMOVE EVERYTHING IN A MANAGEMENT GROUP - so please be careful - and TEST it in a non-production environment.

Answer 2

I think the following thread:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1014725/how-to-schedule-a-powershell-script-to-run-automat.html?sort=oldest
can be helpful!

Take a look at the following one:
https://build5nines.com/azure-cli-delete-all-resources-within-resource-group/
as well.

Answer 3

There is nothing built in, you would need to create a script using something like Azure automation to do this for you.