README.md

Usage:

az resource list | python sort_for_deletion_parallel.py '^resources-to-delete.*' | while read CMD; do bash -xc "$CMD"; done

sort_for_deletion_parallel.py

import json
import sys
import re

del_seq = [
#    'Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/extensions',
    'Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines',
    'Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets',
    'Microsoft.Compute/availabilitySets',
    'Microsoft.Network/loadBalancers',
    'Microsoft.Network/networkInterfaces',
    'Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses',
    'Microsoft.Network/networkSecurityGroups',
    'Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks',
    'Microsoft.Compute/disks',
]

if len(sys.argv) < 2:
    sys.stderr.write("First positional argument must be filter regex")
    sys.exit(1)
filter_regex = re.compile(sys.argv[1])

all_res = json.load(sys.stdin)

parallel_del_list = []
for res_type in del_seq:
    parallel_del_list.append([_ for _ in all_res if _['type'] == res_type])

for res_of_type in parallel_del_list:
    parallel_del_cmd_list = []
    for res in res_of_type:
        if not filter_regex.match(res['name']):
            continue
        del_cmd = "az resource delete --resource-group {0} --name {1} --resource-type {2}".format(
            res['resourceGroup'],
            res['name'],
            res['type']
            )
        parallel_del_cmd_list.append(del_cmd)
    print " & ".join(parallel_del_cmd_list)