Managing resources

You will be aware by now that Turn it Off manages individual cloud resources from within a logical structure, the structure is as follows:

• Your Application (e.g. your website, your finance system, your CRM system etc.), then

• their Environments (e.g. non-production testing, non-production staging etc.), then

• then optional resource groupings (you define these if you want to sequence resource groups on stop/start in a particular order)

• the Resources (e.g. virtual machines, database services etc.) in each of those environments.

When you setup an environment you tell the system where your resources reside, this is in either an AWS account or Azure subscription. You can use resources from multiple accounts/subscriptions to create one environment.

Once that environment is live you can add new providers to select resources from OR select new resources from the pre-selected environments by hitting the resources tab from the environment overview page.

From here you will be able to select manage/unmanage to define those resources you want managed from within the particular environment.