Using Azure Policy
In the previous chapters, we talked about various Azure services, their capabilities, automation options, and both basic and advanced configuration. We covered a variety of different resources – starting with Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Network to Azure Load Balancer and Azure Disks before reaching Azure Storage, File Service, and Blob Storage. With this chapter, we’ll be starting the last part of this book, Governance and Monitoring, which will be related in many ways to the topics we covered previously.
Our journey regarding governance and monitoring will begin with Azure Policy – a native feature of Azure that allows you to describe policies and rules guarding the proper configuration of your cloud resources. In this chapter, we’ll cover the following topics:
- The basics of Azure Policy
- Deploying policies
- Creating custom policies
- The difference between policies and initiatives
- Discussing various policies...
