Protecting VM data
VMs provisioned to run workloads needed for your applications (or applications themselves) need to be protected against accidental deletion, misconfiguration, or loss of data. Azure, as a platform, offers multiple ways to do that, depending on your configuration, technical requirements, and available technologies. Some scenarios can be covered by third-party solutions as well – we won’t cover them in this chapter as it’d be difficult to select tools generic enough to serve everyone. Let’s get started with securing VMs by making sure that the infrastructure itself is secure.
Coping with accidental deletion
At any moment in time, a user, script, or application can accidentally delete some components of your infrastructure. This is, of course, true, assuming some basic prerequisites:
- Resources can be removed (are not locked)
- An actor (user/script/application) has enough permissions to perform a deletion
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