Managing Resources with Azure Policy
1h 1mIntermediate2022-03-22
Authors
James Millar
Educator and Owner of Sailr Solutions Ltd.
Course details
Azure Policy is a governance and compliance tool that helps to enforce organizational standards and to assess compliance at-scale. In this course, instructor James Millar shows how Azure Policy can be used to take governance and compliance into consideration early on when designing a cloud strategy. He begins by explaining governance and its importance, then dives deeper into how to build governance considerations into your design. Utilizing several hands-on demos, he shows how to successfully create and manage your policies.
Skills covered
Operations ManagementAzureProject ManagementNetwork AdministrationCloud PlatformsNetwork and System AdministrationCloud ComputingBusiness Analysis and StrategyMicrosoftOne-Off
Concepts
Introduction
- Managing resources in Azure
- Introducing the course scenario
Introduction to Governance in the Cloud
- Understanding governance and compliance
- Exploring the building blocks
Designing for Governance
- Designing for governance
- Tenants and subscriptions
- Management groups
- Resource groups
- Policies and initiatives
- Putting it all together
Creating and Managing Azure Policy
- Understand Azure Policy terms
- Policy planning and location
- Built-in policies and initiatives
- Creating policies
- Creating initiatives
- Understanding custom policy definitions
- Creating custom policy definitions
Policy as Code
- Introducing policy as code
- Programmatic policy creation
- Implement Policy as Code
Conclusion
- Learning more about Azure resource management