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Implementing Azure Solutions - Second Edition

By : Florian Klaffenbach, Markus Klein, Sebastian Hoppe, Oliver Michalski, Jan-Henrik Damaschke
Book Image

Implementing Azure Solutions - Second Edition

By: Florian Klaffenbach, Markus Klein, Sebastian Hoppe, Oliver Michalski, Jan-Henrik Damaschke

Overview of this book

<p>Microsoft Azure offers numerous solutions that can shape the future of any business. However, the major challenge that architects and administrators face lies in implementing these solutions. </p><p>Implementing Azure Solutions helps you overcome this challenge by enabling you to implement Azure Solutions effectively. The book begins by guiding you in choosing the backend structure for your solutions. You will then work with the Azure toolkit and learn how to use Azure Managed Apps to share your solutions with the Azure service catalog. The book then focuses on various implementation techniques and best practices such as implementing Azure Cloud Services by configuring, deploying, and managing cloud services. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll learn how to work with Azure-managed Kubernetes and Azure Container Services. </p><p>By the end of the book, you will be able to build robust cloud solutions on Azure.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Chapter 10: Implementing Azure Governance

  1. Azure governance means a definition and tooling to make sure that Azure usage will be done based on an organizational definition. This includes Azure Naming Conventions also, as which regions should be used and who has which permissions in Azure itself.
  2. RBAC is a role-based definition to match user accounts with the technical function in Azure. By default, more than 70 roles are already predefined, but if you are missing something, you could even set up your own custom role.
  3. Azure Policies provide a way to technically define the structure of Azure usage based on naming conventions, regions to be used, needed tagging, and so on.
  4. A management group is used to provide a scoping level under the subscription in Azure.
  5. Azure Security Center and Azure Cost Management are tools to support Azure governance and have an appropriate reporting on it.
  6. If you do not set up governance before starting to use Azure services,...