Creating Dynamic Resource and Target Groups

Last updated on February 12, 2021.

Last Reviewed and Approved on PENDING REVIEW

Dynamic Groups allows you to add filter conditions to a group. Then any Resource or Target that matches the conditions will be automatically added to those groups.

Use Cases

  1. Create a Target Group of Windows Machines by filtering on OsType = 'Windows'. Then you can assign a Resource Item to all Windows machines.
  2. Create a Resource Group of Admin Accounts where Role Contains 'Admin'.

Steps

$condition1 = New-RpsGroupCondition -ConditionOperator "Eq" -Property "Type" -Value "VirtualMachine"
$condition2 = New-RpsGroupCondition -ConditionOperator "Contains" -Property "Role" -Value "RpsAdmin" -Delimiter "|"

New-RpsResourceGroup -Name DynamicGroup1 -Type DynamicGroup -Operator "And" -Condition $condition1, $condition2

The first command New-RpsGroupCondition describes the condition. This uses the same syntax as PowerShell Operators.

We support strings, booleans, integers, containments, and regex comparisons. If a property on an entity is an array, then you can supply the delimiter value to split the string into an array.

New-RpsResourceGroup and New-RpsTargetGroup have two new additional fields.

  • "Conditions", which takes a list of the conditions object created above.

  • "Operator", with values 'And' or 'Or'.

    Note

    The operator value 'And' says all conditions must match; 'Or' says only one condition must match.