What The Hack - Azure Governance

Introduction

1. Azure Governance is a collection of concepts and services that are designed to enable management of your various Azure resources at scale. It facilitates leadership to support autonomous teams and ensuring that they aherence to guidelines when using Cloud Resources.
2. This challenge based hack is intended to teach how to design a well governed Azure cloud deployment.
3. You will be learning about Azure Management Groups, RBAC, Policy, Blueprints, Cost Management and Resource Graph.

Learning Objectives

This content has been targeted to Microsoft employees, Partners, and Customers looking to build up their knowledge on Azure Governance (Management Groups, RBAC, Policy, Blueprints, Cost Management and Resource Graph). Basic knowledge of Azure Cloud is expected before leveraging this workshop.

In this hack you will learn how to:

1. Implement Azure Governance to manage Azure Resources at Scale
2. Facilitate Azure Governance conversations with key stake holders and central IT management.
3. Create reusable IP to manage Azure environments.
4. Build a governance strategy using Management Groups, Azure Policy, and Blueprints
5. Group and organize your subscriptions in a logical hierarchy that support the deployment of other Governance services in a structured way

Challenges

• Challenge 0: Deployment Setup Guide
  • Create a new AAD tenant, Azure subscription, and deploy hack environment from script
• Challenge 1: Management Group
  • Create a logical heirarchy in Management Groups
• Challenge 2: Azure Policy
  • Apply out-of-the-box Azure policies and create a custom policies
• Challenge 3: Azure Blueprints
  • Learn to create an Azure Blueprint to specify policies and permissions
• Challenge 4: Azure Cost Management
  • Learn how to identify costs of deployed resources
• Challenge 5: Azure Resource Graph
  • Monitor and review deployed resources through Resource Graph

View Challenges in PowerPoint

Prerequisites

1. Review the Deployment Setup Guide.
2. Create a new Azure AD Tenant.
3. Create new Azure Trial Subscription.

Repository Contents

• ../Coach
  • Coach’s Guide and related files
• ../Student
  • Student’s Challenge Guide

Contributors

• Farida Bharmal
• Rob Keuhfus