Ten Tuesdays

1. Day 8 – Governance and Compliance
Johan Myburgh
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2. Johan Myburgh
Azure Technical Trainer (ATT) @ Microsoft UK
Cloud Solution Architect
Passionate about people and sharing knowledge
jomyburg@microsoft.com
@sayedimac
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3. Day 8
Governance and
Compliance
• Why governance?
• Azure Policy
• Azure RBAC
• Blueprints
• Locks

4. Why Governance
• Ensures environment runs the way it is
indented to run
• Rules for operating environment
• Build into your process
• Sprawl
• Consistency
• Size, SKU, Region, etc.
• Cost
• Security
• Loose canons
Without it…

5. Azure Policies
Granular rules you can apply to structure
Evaluate/Report or stop deployments
JSON definitions
Group together as Initiatives

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7. Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
Role Based Access Control
Who?
Security principal
User Group Service principal
Role assignment
Contributor
"Actions": [
"*"
],
"NotActions": [
"Auth/*/Delete",
"Auth/*/Write",
"Auth/elevate"
]
Marketing group
Pharma-sales
Resource group
What?
Role definition
Owner
Contributor
Reader
…
Backup Operator
Security Reader
Contributor
Reader Support Tickets
Virtual Machine Operator
Where?
Scope
Management group
Subscription
Resource group
Resource

8. Blueprints
Design templates of:
Resources
Policies
Roles (RBAC)
Resource Groups / Structure
Achieve Compliance
• Blueprints are versioned (small changes)
• Maintains relationship between design
(Blueprint) and resources
• Track and Audit deployments

9. Resource Locks
Locks down structure / resources when
complete
Ensure no simple mistakes slip in
Should be part of your process
• 2 Types
• Delete Lock
• Read-only Lock (includes delete)

10. Summary • Bigger your Azure footprint, the more important
this becomes
• Policies – Rules
• RBAC – Permissions
• Blueprints – includes all and resources
• Locks
• Read-only / Delete

11. Questions?

12. Merci धन्यवाद ᠪᠠᠶᠠᠷᠯᠠᠯ᠎
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Grazie
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