Understanding Azure policies
Azure Policy is a mechanism for effecting organizational compliance on the Azure platform. The service allows aggregated views to understand the overall state of an environment, with the ability to view resource-level granularity for compliance. All this can be viewed on the compliance dashboard. Remediation can be applied automatically and through bulk operations.
The following screenshot illustrates an example policy overview for an organization:
Figure 3.1 – Azure policy example
As you will observe, this is where we will create and manage policies, as well as get an overview of compliance for policies that you have implemented in Azure.
How does Azure Policy work?
Azure Policy assesses compliance by comparing resource properties to business rules defined in a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format. These are known as policy definitions.
A policy initiative is a grouping of definitions that align with business...
