Azure Governance and Compliance Crash Course
Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Using Azure Policy to enforce organization standards and Azure best practices
In this course, you’ll:
- Understand compliance and governance
- Explore Azure Policy and Azure initiatives
- Identify the right policy for the given governing scenario
Microsoft Azure is a globally distributed cloud service. However, companies using Azure must meet their own industry’s or region’s compliance commitments and enforce best practices on their Azure resources. Built-in services like Azure Policy can help enforce and automate a company's governance decisions.
Join expert Reza Salehi to explore Azure Policy and learn how to use built-in and custom policies in Microsoft Azure to enforce and automate governance decisions and organizational standards in your Azure subscriptions.
What you’ll learn and how you can apply it
- Explore Azure compliance documentation and portal
- Assign a built-in Azure Policy definition
- Create and assign a custom policy
This live event is for you because...
- You’re a software developer, architect, administrator, or manager.
- You work with companies interested in (or already using) Microsoft Azure.
- You want to become a cloud developer, design data storage solutions hosted in the cloud, or manage a team of cloud engineers.
Prerequisites
- Experience working as a software developer, solution infrastructure professional, or administrator
- A fundamental understanding of cloud computing and Microsoft Azure
Recommended preparation:
- Access the course repository (private repository at this time)
Recommended follow-up:
Schedule
The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.
Importance of governance and compliance (30 minutes)
- Presentation: What are compliance and governance?; enforcing compliance commitments; exploring Azure compliance documentation and portal; enforcing best practices for Azure resource (e.g., security)
- Group discussion: Governance and compliance
Azure built-in policies (90 minutes)
- Presentation and demo: Introducing Azure Policy; exploring the Azure Policy overview page; built-in general policy definitions; policy definitions for specific resource types; identifying the right built-in policy for your scenario
- Break
- Presentation and demo: Assigning a built-in policy definition to a scope; remediation
- Group discussion: Azure built-in policies/assignment
- Hands-on exercise: Find all built-in policies for your resource type
- Q&A
- Break
Creating custom policy definitions (30 minutes)
- Presentation: The need for a custom Azure Policy definition; creating a custom Azure Policy definition and assigning it to a desired scope
- Group discussion: The need for custom policies
- Hands-on exercise: Create a custom policy definition
- Q&A
- Break
Azure initiatives (30 minutes)
- Presentation: Introducing initiatives; finding the right initiative for your scenario; assigning an Azure initiative
- Group discussion: Azure initiatives
- Hands-on exercise: Find the right initiative for your scenario
- Q&A
Your Instructor
Reza Salehi
Reza Salehi is a cloud infrastructure architect and Microsoft Certified Trainer alumnus. He has trained thousands of students in live, on-demand, and in-person courses and is passionate about helping developers and engineers build practical cloud skills. With a background in software development, he also helps organizations adopt modern cloud solutions through consulting and training.