Chapter 2: Governance and Security
Before digging deep into the technical features that help to secure and protect your cloud environments on Azure, we first need to stop, reflect, plan, and act accordingly. Governance is essential and you need guardrails in the cloud. When talking about cloud computing, customers often exhibit a kind of Let's get started mentality. That's great, but in the cloud, too, rules are necessary. And, in addition to that, you surely don't want to end up with a cloud construct that does not entirely fit your company's needs, do you?
With this chapter, we want to help you design the foundation for a secure cloud strategy and act according to your plan by leading you through the following topics:
- Understanding governance in Azure
- Using common sense to avoid mistakes
- Using management locks
- Using management groups for governance
- Understanding Azure Policy
- Defining Azure blueprints
- Azure Resource Graph
