Creating an Azure firewall policy using PowerShell

You can create an Azure firewall policy and rules using different tools: Azure Firewall Manager, PowerShell, CLI, and REST API. In this recipe, you will create an Azure firewall policy and policy rules using PowerShell.

Getting ready

Open your preferred PowerShell tool – this could be Visual Studio Code, Windows PowerShell ISE, the PowerShell console, or something else.

Sign in to your Azure account: Connect-AzAccount.

How to do it…

To create an Azure firewall policy and policy rules using PowerShell, complete the following steps:

1. Define firewall policy resources:

   $RGName="Firewall"
   $Location="West Europe"
   $fwPolicyName="FW-policy"
   $netCollName="NetworkCollectionGroup"
   $netRuleName="AllowGoogleDNS"
   $appCollName="AppCollectionGroup"
   $appRuleName="Allow-Packt"

2. Create a resource group:

   New-AzResourceGroup -Name $RGName -Location...