Defining Azure blueprints

Now that you know how to define your Azure hierarchy and how to work with locks and policies, you might want to create a template that is valid for all your subscriptions and for those that are yet to be created as well. With the Azure blueprints service, you get exactly what you need for this purpose. A blueprint, in this case, is a repeatable template that you define once and then use during the creation of all your Azure subscriptions in the future. The good thing here is that you can define organizational sets of rules and automatically apply them to all your subscriptions while accelerating the deployment process at the same time. With Azure Blueprints, you can declaratively deploy Azure resources and artifacts to all your subscriptions, such as the following:

• Role assignments
• Policy assignments
• ARM templates
• Resource groups
• Locks

In the section about management locks in this chapter, I explained that I usually have a core...