The hub
This is the column you can see in the left-hand menu when you log in to the Azure portal. It displays Azure services in a more organized way. For example, if you created some VMs, you can view and manage them by clicking on Virtual machines in the hub, and the same goes for the other services, as shown in the following screenshot:
You will note that not all the services are displayed in the left menu. In order to display all of them, click on All services, and you can use the filter to narrow down your search for the service you want:
As you can see in the preceding screenshot, there are stars and circles. The stars are pinned to the main hub; the circles are not. So, you can select what is to be displayed to make your access to the services much easier.
The window that pops up when you click on one of the Azure services in the Azure portal, such as Virtual machines is called a blade.
A set of blades or chain of selections is called a journey. For instance, when you select Virtual machines inside the Azure portal, click on an existing virtual machine and then select its settings.
