Chapter 3: Creating and Managing Governance
This chapter covers how to establish governance in Azure and create mechanisms for managing it. The topics we will cover will include how to create Azure policies and resource locks and why they exist, as well as applying and managing resource tags. This chapter will assist you in building the skills required to establish a good governance baseline within your organization and understanding the importance of policies and tags in Azure, with practical application of these skills in the examples. Establishing good governance within an organization is an audacious task, but this chapter sets to guide you along the right path in the journey, knowing where to find resources to support you as you apply this within your organization and with your customers.
In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:
- Understanding Azure policies
- Applying and managing tags on resources